With an increasing portfolio of motels and types in Southeast Asia, Accor wished to scale back {hardware} footprint and to be able to scale their companies throughout motels sooner or later.
So the French hospitality group started its cloud migration initiative for motels in Southeast Asia on the finish of 2019. Though “nearly all of motels in ASEAN are nonetheless with on-premises servers in the present day, the main target is to open new motels largely with cloud applied sciences and progressively migrate current motels to the cloud,” says Khang Nguyen Trieu, group chief know-how architect at Accor.
These 5 particular use instances will finally be expanded by IBM and also will be made out there to the ecosystem for enlargement by particular person corporations and/or distributors. And though these Cloud Paks are optimized to run on the IBM Cloud, as a result of they're constructed on prime of OpenShift they can run on just about any cloud basis, making a no-lock-in answer that must be extra palatable to corporations who aren't IBM-centric or unique.
Accor manages greater than 5,100 motels in 110 nations world wide. Within the Asia-Pacific area, Accor has 1,200 motels in 22 nations. It operates a number of manufacturers, together with Sofitel, Pullman, MGallery, Novotel, Mercure, and Ibis, with a mixture of company-owned properties and properties owned by others.
The corporate began their initiative with new motels, deploying property administration programs within the cloud in 2020 in Thailand and South Korea.
