You may not realize when you’re traveling that every time you book a flight, board a plane, or look for your luggage, you’re probably using Amadeus Data Processing. It’s really at the heart of travel and facilitates the entire travel process, from initial search to making a booking, from pricing to ticketing, from managing reservations to managing check-in and departure processes. The company decided to make its system run from a hybrid cloud, and it has made a huge difference.

“The core idea is that we separate the upper layer of the stack, which includes the applications with OpenShift from Red Hat, and all the container pieces from the infrastructure underneath,” said Olaf Schnapauff, CTO and head of architecture and technical governance at Amadeus Data Processing GmbH.

This allows Amadeus the flexibility to deploy the workload where its wants it to be, whether that’s in a specific jurisdiction or close to where it’s being consumed.

“It’s flexibility that running on a mainframe couldn’t give us,” he added. Schnapauff was joined by Dietmar Fauser, VP of R&D, architecture, quality and governance at Amadeus Data Processing GmbH. The pair was interviewed by Stu Miniman (@stu) and Brian Gracely (@bgracely), cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team.

The growth of Red Hat and contribution to open source

To this end, Schnapauff and Fauser said they are proud of their partnership with Red Hat and happy to see the growth and success over the past few years.

“We’ve been watching Red Hat for quite some while. It shows that the model is flying, that there is room for this type of model,” said Fauser. They are especially proud of the open-source movement and are actively contributing to the community. Some of the company’s engineers are dedicated to actively contributing to OpenShift, even inviting Red Hat engineers to work with its team in Europe.

Advice to the wise

The pair had some advice for others too. Fauser encouraged companies to make conscious decisions and then stay the course, and continue investing in new technology. To that end, you have to invest in good people. “Contributing to open source is a super recruitment tool. It brings you additional top-notch engineers. They really love it,” he said.

Schnapauff encouraged people to get brave and forge ahead, to be an inspiration to others. “People feel stuck on legacy systems and feel they could never go away, but we’re an example that you could go away and get to interesting platforms,” he remarked.

Watch the full interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE and theCUBE’s coverage of the Red Hat Summit.

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