We need to be extremely high performance in latencies and throughput, but we also have to adapt to the reality that the travel experience that people are expecting had changed.

We need to be very reliable we need to be very trusted and very secure. We handled almost 450 million passengers in 2015, 4 million booking at peak times each day, and so the demand on our technology had always been extremely high. Now when it comes to travel, people's expectations have definitely changed. We aim to facilitate the complete travel experience from door-to-door. From the initial search to find what you want, to making a booking, to pricing, ticketing, reservations, check-in and departure, hotels, rail, and the overall travel experience.Д®ven though most people are unaware, almost everybody travelling has used Amadeus for their travel needs. Schnapauff: Amadeus provides the technology that keeps the travel sector moving. We had a cluster that grew from three servers to 42 servers in nine months.' How does the database technology at its heart fit in?ДЄmadeus's Schnapauff: 'We have clusters that are tens of terabytes in size and tens of terabytes in throughput. ZDNet talked to the CTO of global operations at Amadeus, Olaf Schnapauff, to find out how it's done, including its use of the MongoDB technology.ДЄmadeus is a massive operation. When you take a flight anywhere in the world, the technology that shows you the options available, that books the flight, that handles everything from check-in through to hotel reservation, will likely be run by Amadeus. Amadeus CTO: 'We want to provide a much more personalised travel experience that is much more connected and is instant.'

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