Cloud emerges at SITA World IT Conference

Emphasising “Cloud”, and as predicted in AERBT, the SITA/Orange partnership grabbed the headlines at last week's Air Transport IT Summit 2011. 

Celebrating ten years of partnership the two communications service providers are to build a global, high performance, managed Cloud computing infrastructure.  Each will use their own system to deliver to the markets, with added global reach and reliability.  Cloud, seemingly the way ahead in the world of IT, has been described as the use and access of multiple server-based computational resources via a digital network.  Users in effect have dumb terminals.  All processing and storage is maintained by the Cloud server.

With the case of SITA/Orange the computing infrastructure will be based on six seamlessly interconnected data centres in five continents, in Atlanta, Frankfurt, Johannesburg, Singapore, Hong Kong and Sydney.  Each centre will cover their regional hemispheres and will be interconnected via Orange’s high-speed MPLS network.  Over this infrastructure, Orange Business Services and SITA will offer their individual portfolio of Cloud including the platform, infrastructure, and software all as services.  Both Orange Business Services and SITA will continue to own the contract relationships with their end users.

Rollout of the infrastructure has already started with the data centres of Atlanta, Frankfurt and Singapore being fully operational in Q1 2012 and all six operational in Q3 2012.  More from the Summit next week. www.sita.aero

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