Amadeus invests in uptime

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Amadeus invests in uptime - Networking - Technology - News - iTnews.com.au

[h=2]Qantas' technology provider out to restore availability record.[/h]
Travel industry IT giant Amadeus has boosted its investments in data centre redundancy in the wake of uncharacteristic system outages over the past two years.
Amadeus provides outsourced IT solutions and a reservation engine for some 100 airlines, including Qantas and Virgin in Australia, and considerably more hotel, cruise ship and rail operators.
The company was founded in the 1990s by Luthansa, Air France, Iberia and SAS and competes with the likes of Sabre, Gallileo and Navitaire.
Amadeus has long touted a 99.9 percent availability record since it first began offering services from its Germany-based data centre in the early 90s.
But this record has been savaged in 2011 and 2012.

 

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I understand the outages may have to do with time and date, leap second like issues - ie pig ignorance over distributed network testing and latency. (as did Microsoft) .As they did not announce the actual problem, I suggest their troubles not yet over.