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Travelport moved the mainframe systems previously located in Denver to its primary Atlanta data center. "David Lauderdale, Travelport's chief technology officer, said: "Consolidation also has another important benefit. We're now using fewer and more efficient systems to support the same workloads, which reduce the demand for power and cooling.
Following the consolidation the Denver data center will become a dedicated disaster recovery and co-location facility.
The Atlanta facility will deliver services to Worldspan, Galileo, Apollo and several major airlines.
Travelport has invested $450m in technology refreshes to the Atlanta data center, including $60m this year in order to prepare Atlanta to run the Galileo and Apollo systems.
"With the migration, we now have a world-class data center in Atlanta serving all of Travelport GDS and the airline customers who count on us for some of their most important services, said Gordon Wilson, president and CEO, Travelport GDS. "As part of this migration more than 50 million passenger reservations were moved from Denver to Atlanta. The combined complex in Atlanta now handles a peak message rate of more than 20,000 messages per second and about 1 billion messages per day.
The consolidation of Travelport's primary data center operations in Atlanta is an example of the ongoing integration of the Galileo, Apollo and Worldspan GDS platforms. By managing all three systems in a state-of-the-art, unified data center environment, Travelport customers benefit from access to one of the industry's most powerful, reliable and responsive travel distribution and hosting platforms.
Travelport moved the mainframe systems previously located in Denver to its primary Atlanta data center. "David Lauderdale, Travelport's chief technology officer, said: "Consolidation also has another important benefit. We're now using fewer and more efficient systems to support the same workloads, which reduce the demand for power and cooling.
Following the consolidation the Denver data center will become a dedicated disaster recovery and co-location facility.
The Atlanta facility will deliver services to Worldspan, Galileo, Apollo and several major airlines.
Travelport has invested $450m in technology refreshes to the Atlanta data center, including $60m this year in order to prepare Atlanta to run the Galileo and Apollo systems.
"With the migration, we now have a world-class data center in Atlanta serving all of Travelport GDS and the airline customers who count on us for some of their most important services, said Gordon Wilson, president and CEO, Travelport GDS. "As part of this migration more than 50 million passenger reservations were moved from Denver to Atlanta. The combined complex in Atlanta now handles a peak message rate of more than 20,000 messages per second and about 1 billion messages per day.
The consolidation of Travelport's primary data center operations in Atlanta is an example of the ongoing integration of the Galileo, Apollo and Worldspan GDS platforms. By managing all three systems in a state-of-the-art, unified data center environment, Travelport customers benefit from access to one of the industry's most powerful, reliable and responsive travel distribution and hosting platforms.