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	For Lufthansa Systems, Customizing In-Flight Connectivity and Entertainment Systems for Its Award-winning BoardConnect Solution Depends on Stateful Containers

For Lufthansa Systems, Customizing In-Flight Connectivity and Entertainment Systems for Its Award-winning BoardConnect Solution Depends on Stateful Containers

Technology Category	Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Storage Services
Applicable Functions	Discrete Manufacturing Product Research & Development
Use Cases	Fleet Management Predictive Maintenance
Services	Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services System Integration
Challenge	Lufthansa Systems, a subsidiary of Europe’s largest airline, provides IT services to the airline industry. Its BoardConnect product powers in-flight entertainment and connectivity for millions of airline passengers. The product requires a robust and scalable IT infrastructure that can meet customer demands for flexibility, robustness, modularity, and ease of use. As the company increasingly built its infrastructure around microservices and containerization, it identified a missing link – data persistence. The company needed a solution that would allow data persistence to catch up to the flexibility, ease of use, and speed that they needed to achieve in a containerized environment. The company also needed a solution that would allow it to auto-instantiate CMS environments on developer-committed projects and manage customers’ individual CMS production instances. Read More
About Customer	Lufthansa Systems is a subsidiary of Europe’s largest airline, Lufthansa. The company is one of the world’s leading providers of IT services in the airline industry. It offers its more than 300 airline customers an extensive range of successful and, in many cases, market-leading products covering all of an airline’s business processes – in the cockpit, in the cabin, and on the ground. Lufthansa Systems’ BoardConnect product powers in-flight entertainment, infotainment, and connectivity for millions of airline passengers. The product is designed with microservices in mind, and it runs in Docker Swarm environments with Consul-backed service discovery. The company maintains a large number of services that persist to regular block storage. Read More
Solution	Lufthansa Systems found Portworx PX-Enterprise to be a natural fit for its demands. The solution is free of cloud, use case, and vendor constraints, and is fast and transparent for traditional, cloud native, and third-party applications. Portworx PX-Enterprise allows Lufthansa Systems to spawn full-blown CMS environments in a matter of minutes, without requiring manual intervention. For production, it allows operations to move CMS environments around in the cluster, and the corresponding data follows along transparently. The solution operates transparently in the background, and administrative tasks are easy to execute through the provided Lighthouse UI, or CLI when necessary. Upgrades are straightforward, and metrics from the storage subsystem are available in a standard JSON format. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Storage Services

Applicable Functions

Discrete Manufacturing

Product Research & Development

Use Cases

Fleet Management

Predictive Maintenance

Services

Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services

System Integration

Challenge

Lufthansa Systems, a subsidiary of Europe’s largest airline, provides IT services to the airline industry. Its BoardConnect product powers in-flight entertainment and connectivity for millions of airline passengers. The product requires a robust and scalable IT infrastructure that can meet customer demands for flexibility, robustness, modularity, and ease of use. As the company increasingly built its infrastructure around microservices and containerization, it identified a missing link – data persistence. The company needed a solution that would allow data persistence to catch up to the flexibility, ease of use, and speed that they needed to achieve in a containerized environment. The company also needed a solution that would allow it to auto-instantiate CMS environments on developer-committed projects and manage customers’ individual CMS production instances.

About Customer

Lufthansa Systems is a subsidiary of Europe’s largest airline, Lufthansa. The company is one of the world’s leading providers of IT services in the airline industry. It offers its more than 300 airline customers an extensive range of successful and, in many cases, market-leading products covering all of an airline’s business processes – in the cockpit, in the cabin, and on the ground. Lufthansa Systems’ BoardConnect product powers in-flight entertainment, infotainment, and connectivity for millions of airline passengers. The product is designed with microservices in mind, and it runs in Docker Swarm environments with Consul-backed service discovery. The company maintains a large number of services that persist to regular block storage.

Solution

Lufthansa Systems found Portworx PX-Enterprise to be a natural fit for its demands. The solution is free of cloud, use case, and vendor constraints, and is fast and transparent for traditional, cloud native, and third-party applications. Portworx PX-Enterprise allows Lufthansa Systems to spawn full-blown CMS environments in a matter of minutes, without requiring manual intervention. For production, it allows operations to move CMS environments around in the cluster, and the corresponding data follows along transparently. The solution operates transparently in the background, and administrative tasks are easy to execute through the provided Lighthouse UI, or CLI when necessary. Upgrades are straightforward, and metrics from the storage subsystem are available in a standard JSON format.

Impact #1	Lufthansa Systems can now spawn full-blown CMS environments in a matter of minutes, versus hours in the past, without requiring manual intervention.
Impact #2	The solution allows operations to move CMS environments around in the cluster, and the corresponding data follows along transparently.
Impact #3	The solution operates transparently in the background, and administrative tasks are easy to execute through the provided Lighthouse UI, or CLI when necessary.

Impact #1

Lufthansa Systems can now spawn full-blown CMS environments in a matter of minutes, versus hours in the past, without requiring manual intervention.

Impact #2

The solution allows operations to move CMS environments around in the cluster, and the corresponding data follows along transparently.

Impact #3

The solution operates transparently in the background, and administrative tasks are easy to execute through the provided Lighthouse UI, or CLI when necessary.

Benefit #1	The time-to-deployment of stateful containers has been significantly reduced.
Benefit #2	The company can now auto-launch instances of arbitrary development branches, including full CMS systems, their databases and filesystems, at any given time.

Benefit #1

The time-to-deployment of stateful containers has been significantly reduced.

Benefit #2

The company can now auto-launch instances of arbitrary development branches, including full CMS systems, their databases and filesystems, at any given time.

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For Lufthansa Systems, Customizing In-Flight Connectivity and Entertainment Systems for Its Award-winning BoardConnect Solution Depends on Stateful Containers

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