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APL designs a "data center and cloud" hosting strategy for Marseille Provence Airport

Published on May 26, 2026 -
Marseille Provence Airport (AMP) currently hosts all of its IT production at its Marignane site.
Client company

Aéroport Marseille Provence

Industry

Air transport

Type of support

Consulting, Project Management Assistance

Type of service

Definition of a 10-year hybrid hosting strategy: data center and cloud

Context and objectives of the assignment

Real estate projects and the increasing criticality of hosted applications led its IT department to seek APL's expertise in defining a new strategy for hosting and operating its IT infrastructure.

  • Develop a 10-year evolution strategy for Marseille Provence Airport's data centers
  • Propose an IT hosting and operations policy

Completed assignments

  • Multi-criteria study of several hosting scenarios: from in-house hosting to a certain level of infrastructure cloudification.
  • Definition of the target architecture for the IT production hosting system, meeting business challenges, organizational, human, and political constraints, as well as AMP's performance, service continuity, and economic requirements.

Client benefits

  • Strategy proposed by APL and the AMP IT department adopted by the executive committee
  • Reduction from 4 IT rooms to 2 high-performance data centers (approx. 250 VMs, 60 applications, video surveillance)
  • Network bandwidth increase from 100 Mbps to 1 Gbps

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