The engineering system used by Ryanair at its Dublin Airport computer centre, which manages maintenance of its rapidly expanding aircraft fleet, has been upgraded with two new HP 9000 servers.
The contract to supply, install and maintain the servers was secured by HP in association with Memorex Telex and is worth EUR500,000. The airline has worked with HP for the past eight years and all of its main business systems are run on a HP-UX (Unix) platform.
Ryanair, Europe’s largest low fares airline, has undergone a massive expansion in recent years, increasing its annual traffic over the last ten years from 700,000 to 24 million passengers in 2003. It is expanding its 54-strong aircraft fleet accordingly, most recently with a deal with Boeing announced last year that is seeing the airline take delivery of up to 150 new Boeing 737-800 series aircraft over an eight-year period between 2002 to 2010, with options on 100 more.
The upgraded engineering system will be used to manage maintenance for the expanding fleet, including service and repair scheduling and parts supply.
According to Martin Nygard, management information services manager, Ryanair, the HP 9000 server upgrade will provide a 5 to 10-fold increase in performance over the old system.
‘Due to our expansion, we needed to upgrade our infrastructure and we needed a solution that offered high availability and high reliability,’ Nygard said. ‘We also wanted to be able to call on experienced support and working with HP will enable us to do that.’
25/07/2003
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