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NH Hoteles Chooses Red Hat and JBoss
(Wireless News Via Acquire Media NewsEdge)
Red Hat, a provider of open source solutions, announced that NH
Hoteles, a European business hotel chain with 350 locations across 21
countries, has launched its business-critical web platform based on a
combination of Red Hat and JBoss solutions.
The NH Hoteles platform was developed using JBoss Enterprise
Application Platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Operations
Network.
The NH Hoteles web platform, including its corporate website, a hotel
search engine and its online booking system, is a fundamental element
of the company's business that is critical to enabling online sales. In
2006, its portal received approximately 17 million visitors, and in
2007, the number of site visitors increased to over 22 million. When
the web platform began experiencing problems related to stability and
performance, the company began to explore possible solutions that could
help ease its challenges. The series of criteria necessary for a new
platform solution included heightened performance, scalability,
standardization, support, monitoring and procedures.
After assessing various options, including other proprietary
application servers, NH Hoteles selected the solution proposed by
Oxxigeno Networks, a Red Hat Advanced Business Partner, based on JBoss
Enterprise Application Platform and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. With
Oxxigeno Networks' help, NH Hoteles completed its web-portal migration
project spanning the operating system, application server, web servers,
applications and the subsequent platform operation management.
"After implementing Red Hat solutions, we benefited from a reliable
technology infrastructure that was fault-tolerant, robust, supported by
open technology and standards-based. The implementation of Red Hat
solutions was a success and has exceeded the objectives we defined at
the beginning of the project," said Ricardo Mardomingo, IT manager of
NH Hoteles. "We experienced an impressive increase in system stability
with improved platform availability that reached 100 percent after
migration."
Due to the management capacity of the JBoss Enterprise Application
Platform through JBoss Operations Network, NH Hoteles has also
experienced greater control of its current architecture. The solution
has provided ease-of-use and scalability, and has led the company to
consider the suitability of implementing additional Red Hat solutions
throughout the rest of its information systems.
"The continuous increase in our online sales made through the web means
the priority of the corporate IT department must be to seek maximum
availability and performance of the technology platform. Red Hat
solutions have proven to exceed expectations for the current and future
needs of our platform," said Mardomingo.
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