Amadeus Deploys OpenShift by Red Hat as Foundation for Cloud-Based Application Infrastructure

Amadeus is building its own self-service, automated cloud platform - Amadeus Cloud Services - on OpenShift Enterprise, Red Hat’s private cloud application platform.

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 want a travel application that can 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.

OpenShift will build the Amadeus Cloud Services solution that they plan to gradually roll out to serve Amadeus’ travel industry customers.

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.”