NEWS
Hitit and IBM to strengthen collaboration for
airline Business Continuity
itit, one of the leading airline and
travel IT providers in the world,
and IBM have announced an
expansion of their existing collaboration
on Business Continuity.
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Under the new agreement, Hitit will adopt
IBM’s public cloud infrastructure, including
availability zones, to serve as the primary
back-up to its on-premises data centre for
resiliency and Disaster Recovery.
This hybrid cloud strategy is designed to
ensure continuous availability of critical
applications and uninterrupted services to
a list of Hitit clients that include 27 major
airlines in 19 countries, travel agencies and
ground handling companies.
As one of the first aviation technology
companies in Turkey, Hitit exports new-
gen technology to all types of airlines
across Asia, Europe, Africa, Middle
East and Latin America, and provides
its clients with software services in
passenger services systems through to
operation planning, accounting, travel
merchandising and cargo solution.
Nevra Onursal Karaagac, CMO at Hitit,
said: “The collaboration between Hitit and
IBM is an important step in boosting the
standards in the aviation marketplace.
Our partner airlines and travel clients are
supported by the Disaster Recovery plan
provided by the IBM public cloud, which
strengthens the operational quality of
air travel. This collaboration is a notable
example of Hitit’s endless efforts to
improve its services.”
Infoblox announces acquisition of SnapRoute
nfoblox, a leader in Secure
Cloud-Managed Network
Services, has announced the
acquisition of SnapRoute, the creator
of the industry’s first Cloud-Native
Network Operating System (CN-NOS).
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SnapRoute’s talent and technology add
significant depth to Infoblox’s suite of
offerings and will help the company to
radically simplify networking and deliver
groundbreaking services more quickly
and efficiently.
As business environments continue to
evolve as part of digitalisation efforts,
they become more decentralised, and
operate across multiple platforms and
devices in a hybrid cloud architecture,
technology and service providers will
need a new platform/architecture
to deliver and manage network and
security services at scale.
Infoblox’s BloxOne platform is built
around cloud-native architectural
principles, enabling the delivery
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of cloud-managed secure network
services at scale.
their innovative technology and IP to
rapidly expand the services we offer on
our BloxOne platform.”
With SnapRoute’s cloud-
native OS, Infoblox will
now be able to accelerate
the development and
delivery of additional
network services on
its platform.
“We recognise that the
future is in the cloud,
and to meet customer
demands for flexibility,
scalability, adaptability,
enhanced security and
speed, it will become
increasingly important
for network and security
services to be cloud-
native,” said Jesper
Andersen, President and
CEO of Infoblox. “We are
thrilled to welcome the
SnapRoute team as we
work together to leverage
Jesper Andersen,
President and
CEO of Infoblox
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