Amadeus Deploys OpenShift by Red Hat as Foundation for Cloud-Based Application Infrastructure
June 24 2015 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
Strong interest in application containers and
automation leads Amadeus to choose Red Hat’s cloud application
platform offering
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open
source solutions, today announced that global travel technology
provider Amadeus is building its own highly available,
self-service, automated cloud platform – Amadeus Cloud Services -
on OpenShift Enterprise, Red Hat’s award-winning private cloud
application platform.
Amadeus is a leading provider of advanced technology solutions
for the global travel industry, serving customer groups including
airlines, airports, hotels, rail, travel agencies, plus travel
management companies.
Amadeus wanted to update the platform that connects all of these
stakeholders, and that enables its travel industry customers to
access content and travel tools from a single source.
Amadeus’ datacenter is based in Erding, Germany, and it
processes more than 30,000 end-user transactions per second during
peak operations. However with their data transaction demands
exponentially increasing, many Amadeus customers wanted a travel
application that could run on-site locally or be accessed through
public, private or hybrid cloud platforms. To meet these requests
from more than 12,000 infrastructure devices, Amadeus’ IT teams
assessed various open source solutions for infrastructure
architecture and design and application containers, ultimately
selecting OpenShift Enterprise by Red Hat to begin creating and
running a private cloud-based application designed to meet specific
customer demands. Amadeus then selected OpenShift to build the
Amadeus Cloud Services solution that they plan to gradually roll
out to serve Amadeus’ travel industry customers.
Amadeus’ early interest in Docker and containerized applications
also made OpenShift’s lightweight container architecture - which
natively integrates Docker and Kubernetes and is fully supported by
Red Hat - a good fit for their environment, and the open source
community support around OpenShift also solidified the
collaboration, with Amadeus engineers now contributing to the
upstream OpenShift Origin community. This visibility into the
OpenShift code allows Amadeus engineers to maximize existing
resources by integrating and monitoring their existing middleware
applications within the OpenShift platform. Amadeus is also able to
use OpenShift’s automated recovery, scaling and capacity planning
abilities to re-deploy applications when necessary, reducing the
need to personally manage each of their infrastructure
applications.
As part of the project, Amadeus is increasing availability of
its leading-edge platform, while driving further reductions in
latency at the same time. Once fully deployed, Amadeus also expects
Amadeus Cloud Services to further streamline operations through
automation while reducing the time to market for new services.
Supporting Quotes
Dietmar Fauser, VP architecture, quality and governance at
Amadeus
“At Amadeus we want to continue to get much closer to our
customers from a technological standpoint; to deliver applications
more quickly, and to provide a much more flexible platform that can
adapt to change easily and can accommodate different business
models in the process. Although we are still in the early stages of
deployment, we have seen already that the flexibility of the
OpenShift platform and the support we have received from Red Hat
has allowed us to begin to take our application to the next level
and expand it to a wider customer base.”
Ashesh Badani, vice president and general manager, OpenShift,
Red Hat
“We are excited to see that the powerful scaling and automation
capabilities of OpenShift Enterprise allows Amadeus to reach a
larger and wider variety of customers with specific demands, while
allowing them to maintain their platform's original structure.
Amadeus' deployment requirements spanning so many infrastructure
devices truly shows the benefits offered by OpenShift Enterprise's
flexible container orchestration capabilities.”
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Red Hat, Inc.Anna Eusebio,
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specifically:Amadeus IT GroupDaniel Batchelor,
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