Open Source Solutions Provider Announces British Airways’ IT Infrastructure Utilizes Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
 Open source solutions provider Red Hat has announced that British Airways’ IT infrastructure utilizes Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization to support its website and pre-production and production internal applications. The airline has deployed Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization on 750 virtual machines on 130 physical hosts in two datacenters. British Airways, the United Kingdom “flag carrier”, made the move to adopt Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization to support its projected growth and increasing ecommerce traffic. The solution was chosen because it caters for British Airways’ Linux-based workloads and helps the company avoid “vendor lock-in”. Established over 90 years ago, British Airways is the largest British airline and caters for over 40 million passengers annually. The airline flies to 177 global destinations and had to expand its IT infrastructure to cater for its BA.com website, which receives 450,000 visitors a day. Although the system was a good fit with the airline’s existing infrastructure, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization also proved a more cost-effective option than proprietary virtualization offerings. “We use Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization to create our own cloud so that our developers can use it to build their own virtual machines and hence build and control environments as they wish,” explained British Airways’ UNIX and Linux infrastructure consultant, Richard Dawson. “We have used Red Hat solutions in various parts of our business for ten years, and we are pleased to continue our long-standing relationship by deploying Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization.” He added, “We have been using Red Hat in various parts of our business for ten years and so the relationship with Red Hat is already cemented hence we wanted to continue that. We used Red Hat Consulting for the migration, as it was a more efficient model to use trained experts than to employ and then train people of our own. The service was of a high level and delivered within time frame.” Do you know of any other oragnizations utilizing Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization? Let us know the details. Add your comments below. Comment News
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