Company
Lufthansa Systems* provides consulting and IT services for selected industries and has a leading position in the global aviation industry. A wholly-owned subsidiary of the Lufthansa Group, it offers customers a full range of IT services including consulting, development and implementation of customized industry solutions as well as the operation of applications in the company's own data centers. At its headquarters in Kelsterbach near Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Lufthansa Systems operates one of the most modern data centers in Europe.
Challenge
From this data center, Lufthansa Systems hosts a variety of applications – such as Microsoft SQL Server* and SharePoint*, Citrix Access Gateway*, Oracle Siebel CRM* and numerous industry-specific solutions – for some of the world’s best-known airline and travel companies. Since many of these multi-tenant systems are business-critical – for example, running booking engines and aircraft navigation systems – Lufthansa Systems must adhere to strict service level agreements (SLAs), maintaining high standards of performance and availability.
Solution
Optimizing data center operations is of utmost importance to Lufthansa Systems and, for this reason, it was eager to evaluate the benefits of upgrading to Dell PowerEdge* blade servers running on the latest Intel® Xeon® processor E5 family. Improved memory capacity enabled it to increase the number of virtual machines (VMs) per physical server from 30 to 40 using Microsoft Hyper-V*, while also improving performance by 35 percent1. This enables Lufthansa Systems to make more efficient use of its hardware. Intel® Integrated I/O enabled substantial throughput gains and reduced I/O latency by 25 percent, while Intel® Virtualization Technology2 for Connectivity (Intel® VT-c) featuring PCI-SIG Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) improved throughput on Intel® 10GbE from 4 Gbps to 9.6 Gbps, achieving near native hardware performance for VMs. This results in more stable server performance and improved customer service. Finally, power consumption was reduced by 15 percent compared to the previous-generation Intel® Xeon® processor 5600 series through automated power management features and greater overall energy efficiency.
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Company
Lufthansa Systems* provides consulting and IT services for selected industries and has a leading position in the global aviation industry. A wholly-owned subsidiary of the Lufthansa Group, it offers customers a full range of IT services including consulting, development and implementation of customized industry solutions as well as the operation of applications in the company's own data centers. At its headquarters in Kelsterbach near Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Lufthansa Systems operates one of the most modern data centers in Europe.
Challenge
From this data center, Lufthansa Systems hosts a variety of applications – such as Microsoft SQL Server* and SharePoint*, Citrix Access Gateway*, Oracle Siebel CRM* and numerous industry-specific solutions – for some of the world’s best-known airline and travel companies. Since many of these multi-tenant systems are business-critical – for example, running booking engines and aircraft navigation systems – Lufthansa Systems must adhere to strict service level agreements (SLAs), maintaining high standards of performance and availability.
Solution
Optimizing data center operations is of utmost importance to Lufthansa Systems and, for this reason, it was eager to evaluate the benefits of upgrading to Dell PowerEdge* blade servers running on the latest Intel® Xeon® processor E5 family. Improved memory capacity enabled it to increase the number of virtual machines (VMs) per physical server from 30 to 40 using Microsoft Hyper-V*, while also improving performance by 35 percent1. This enables Lufthansa Systems to make more efficient use of its hardware. Intel® Integrated I/O enabled substantial throughput gains and reduced I/O latency by 25 percent, while Intel® Virtualization Technology2 for Connectivity (Intel® VT-c) featuring PCI-SIG Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) improved throughput on Intel® 10GbE from 4 Gbps to 9.6 Gbps, achieving near native hardware performance for VMs. This results in more stable server performance and improved customer service. Finally, power consumption was reduced by 15 percent compared to the previous-generation Intel® Xeon® processor 5600 series through automated power management features and greater overall energy efficiency.
Read the full Lufthansa, Intel® Xeon® Processor E5 Optimizes Data Center Success Brief.
