Lufthansa buys HP V- and N-class serversGeneva 09 March 2001 Hewlett-Packard Company announced the deployment of a high-availability HP system with two 8-processor, 4 Gbyte memory high-end V-class servers, and three mid-range N-class servers to improve revenue accounting at the Lufthansa group of airlines.
Lufthansa, among the world's most profitable airlines, plans to use the system
to reduce costs, especially through the identification of revenue loss caused
by factors such as the timely identification and rejection of excessive
incoming invoices and fraudulent travel.
The German carrier is using the HP servers in association with the SIRAX
revenue accounting software recently developed by Lufthansa Revenue Services
(LRS), and which is now available to 1,000 of the airline's employees
worldwide.
With air passenger traffic growing every year, airlines are faced with the
prospect of issuing and processing substantially more tickets in the years
ahead. The solution developed by HP and LRS helps improve operational
efficiency and information flow, allowing airlines to respond rapidly to this
and other market trends.
SIRAX, which was officially launched in September 2000, is believed by LRS to
be the most comprehensive airline-specific application of its type to be made
available on modern client-server technology. It runs on a high-availability HP
system featuring two high-end V-class servers, each consisting of eight
processors and 4 GByte of memory, plus three mid-range N-class servers.
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