Miles & More GmbH Modernizes IT Architecture with Solutions from Red Hat
Europe’s largest traveler loyalty program operator implements a
high-performance container-based environment for deploying new
microservices
BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
RED HAT SUMMIT 2017 – Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE:RHT), the world’s
leading provider of open source solutions, announced today that Miles &
More GmbH, operator of Europe's largest frequent flyer and awards
program, now uses Red Hat’s container and cloud technologies to deliver
a scalable and automated Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) environment. The
new architecture is designed to support Miles & More GmbH to realize
innovations and to bring new microservices-based applications more
quickly to the market.
Based in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Miles & More GmbH is a fully-owned
subsidiary of Deutsche Lufthansa AG. With the program, participants can
earn and spend with almost 40 airline partners, including 28 airlines
belonging to the Star Alliance, as well as with more than 270 companies
such as hotels, rental cars, cruises, banks and insurance providers.
Previously, for its interfaces with partners outside of the air travel
sector, the company used a middleware solution.
Together with Red Hat, the company developed a new platform based on Red
Hat OpenShift Container Platform to implement innovations more easily in
the future. Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform is the first and only
container-centric, hybrid cloud solution built from Linux containers,
Kubernetes, Project Atomic and OpenShift Origin upstream projects and
relies on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform provides a more secure and stable
platform for container-based deployments without sacrificing current IT
investments, enabling mission-critical, traditional applications to
coexist alongside new, cloud-native and container-based applications.
Alongside Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, Miles & More GmbH has
deployed:
- Red Hat JBoss Fuse, a robust, flexible, and easy to use
platform for integrating applications, data, and services.
- Ansible by Red Hat, a simple, agentless IT automation platform
that supports provisioning, application deployment, complex workflow
orchestration, and configuration management for IT systems, networks,
and applications.
- Red Hat JBoss AMQ, a standards-based messaging platform for
exchanging information between applications.
For the planning, architecture design, and the technical implementation,
Miles & More GmbH worked closely with Red Hat Consulting, Red Hat’s
Technical Account Management team, and its service provider partner.
With the new IT architecture, Miles & More GmbH can integrate its
partners more flexibly and easily into its loyalty program and manage
them more efficiently. In addition, the architecture also enables the
company to bring new services to market faster and to scale its
application requirements. Initial evaluations by the company indicate
that the time-to-market for its services has improved by 15 percent and
a new microservice can be developed much faster and transferred to the
live system without interrupting the system. Miles & More has already
developed 40 microservices for communicating with its partner companies,
including the ‘Earn miles’ and ‘Spend miles’ program. In the future, the
company expects to carry out all new projects as microservices and is
specifically planning to implement a microservices architecture for its
website: http://www.miles-and-more.com.
Supporting Quotes
Ralf Gernhold, director IT, Miles & More GmbH
“With our improved infrastructure based on Red Hat OpenShift Container
Platform, we can now quickly offer additional services, tap into new
business opportunities, and generally enhance our position as an
attractive partner for companies outside of the air travel sector. Our
decision to go with Red Hat was primarily motivated by technological
concerns, and has allowed us to enjoy the best of two worlds: a
cutting-edge open source solution as well as reliable and secure
enterprise support.”
Ashesh Badani, vice president and general manager, OpenShift, Red Hat
“We are proud that a renowned company such as Miles & More decided to
use Red Hat solutions for its extensive modernization project,
especially since the company set high requirements for the solution
architecture regarding performance, agility, scalability, and security
features. The success of this project has demonstrated once again that
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform puts us in an excellent position to
help customers implement container and microservices architectures.”
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