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New Year 1998
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Vmark has secured a £500,000 deal to provide a new computer system for Avro, the UK’s leading flight-only operator. Avro’s existing fault-tolerant Sequoia system has been replaced with two four-processor Hewlett Packard K460 servers running Universe.
Avro, part of the Globus Group which includes Monarch Airlines and tour operator Cosmos, has built its success on providing travel agents with continuous instant access to a computerised reservations system, capable of supporting up to 500 concurrent users. It was therefore vitally important that the changeover in systems be accomplished with the minimum of interruption. HP resource centre Preferred Computers & Networks provided the project management, and with the aid of a loaned HP9000 D Class for software conversion, the actual transfer took place within a two-day window.
John Crosby, managing director of Vmark UK said: “Our Universe database is ideally suited to business critical systems with a large number of users. Technology on which you bet your business, as Avro has, needs to be proven and robust, and for this reason we are proud to be the chosen database supplier by both Avro and Preferred Computers.”
Last Updated: 09 November 1998