APL designs a hybrid data center/cloud hosting strategy for Marseille Provence Airport

Customer name :	Marseille Provence Airport
Area of business :	Air transport
Accompanying mode :	Consulting, Projet Management Assistance
Type of service :	Definition of a 10-year data center and cloud hybrid hosting strategy

Marseille Provence Airport (MRS) currently hosts all of its IT operations at its Marignane site, near Marseille (France). Real-estate projects and the growing importance of the hosted applications led its IT department to commission APL to design a new hosting and operating policy strategy for its IT infrastructures.

Mission objectives

Create a 10-year development strategy for Marseille Provence Airport’s data centers
Propose a hosting and IT operating policy

Services provided

Multi-criteria study of several hosting scenarios: from dedicated hosting to a certain level of infrastructure cloudification
Definition of the target architecture of the IT production hosting system to address the business challenges and the organizational, human and policy constraints as well as the performance, service continuity and economic requirements of MRS

Client benefits

Strategy proposed by APL and the MRS IT department, adopted by the executive board
Four computer rooms replaced by two high-performance data centers (approx. 250 VMs, 60 applications, video surveillance)
Network bandwidth increased from 100 Mbps to 1 Gbps