Redefining travel
commerce
Travelport empowers developers with unified
infrastructure as a service
“We can now give our developers a self-service option that
delivers servers at cloud speed and agility.”
- Charles Shiflett, VP of Infrastructure Management, Travelport
For e-commerce companies, time to market for new features and versions is
critical. To move faster, many are breaking down the walls between development
and operations.
Challenges
• Deliver development and testing environments
quickly with infrastructure as a service (IaaS)
• Automate existing processes
• Make better use of engineering staff time
Focused on providing distribution, technology, payment, mobile and other
solutions for the global travel and tourism industry, Travelport’s Travel Commerce
Platform facilitates travel commerce by connecting the world’s leading travel
providers with online and offline buyers through a proprietary business-tobusiness (B2B) marketplace. Travelport has a leadership position in airline
merchandising, hotel content and rate distribution, mobile travel commerce
and a pioneering B2B payment solution that addresses the needs of travel
intermediaries to efficiently and securely settle travel transactions. The company
also delivers critical technology services to its airline customers that enable them
to focus on core business competencies and reduce costs.
Travelport is constantly developing software solutions that deliver innovation and
value across a wide array of business partners. Often, this requires agile software
development and DevOps methodologies processes that until recently could be
hindered by manual, multi-step deployments of development infrastructure.
“We are faced with multiple challenges led by the growing demand for dev-test
servers, and the deployment process was taking too long,” says Chris Frawley,
manager, infrastructure orchestration group, Travelport.
Case Study | Travelport
Size: 3,700 Employees
Location: Langley, U.K.
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Industry: Travel Commerce
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The company also wanted to free its engineers from provisioning tasks so they
can invest more time in providing IT services of higher value, specifically,
performance, capacity, and availability management.
“Development teams understand the value of IT services and the speed that
are being delivered by public cloud providers. We recognized that same value
and wanted to provide cloud services for them at a more effective cost.” says
Frawley.
Unify infrastructure management with Cisco
technology and services from OneCloud
Consulting.
• Use Cisco UCS® servers and Cisco Nexus®
switches for production and dev-test
Solutions
• Enable developer self-service IaaS portal with
Cisco UCS Director
Automated Infrastructure as a Service
Using Cisco UCS Director to automate provisioning, Travelport is providing
developer teams with self-service IaaS that delivers virtual environments in
less than an hour.
“OneCloud Consulting worked very closely with us on the deployment
and helped us customize UCS Director to our needs,” says Frawley. “We
leveraged Cisco’s out-of-the-box task library to help us move quickly.”
Faster time-to-market
Because developers now have infrastructure on demand, they no longer need
to plan new projects weeks ahead of time. They can start immediately and
improve time to market. “We’ve accelerated service delivery to development
and QA teams, enabling them to do their jobs better,” says Frawley.
<1 HOUR
TO PROVIDE
DEV/TEST
ENVIRONMENTS
Improved operational efficiency
FASTER
TIME TO
MARKET
With Cisco UCS Director, bare metal servers are
provisioned in hours instead of days. Servers and
virtual machines are automatically configured for
network, domain, and administrative rights.
“We’re saving a lot of time and freeing up our engineers to concentrate on
performance tuning and other strategic tasks,” says Frawley.
Integrating diverse technologies
Travelport is using Cisco UCS Director with VMware vSphere to image virtual
machines and plans to use Cisco APIs to integrate a wide range of third-party
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technologies in its data center, reducing operational expenses with accelerated
service delivery.
“Cisco UCS Director has a great interface that simplifies interactions with other
solutions,” says Mahmoud Abdirahman, senior systems engineer at Travelport.
• Provides development and testing environments
in less than an hour
• Speeds time to market for software development
with self-service and automation
Results
• Reclaims IT staff time for more strategic uses,
saving up to 2 hours per task with automated
workflows
Keeping up with a business on the move
Travelport plans to begin using Cisco UCS Director in its production environment
and automate storage and network-oriented tasks.
“We’re always being asked to do more without adding resources, and Cisco
UCS Director will help us meet that challenge with unified management,”
says Frawley.
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• Cisco UCS servers
• Cisco UCS Manager
• Cisco UCS Director
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• Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Switches
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