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.
IBM has been pushing laborious on being a aggressive menace in enterprise cloud, however is much behind the leaders like Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud. It’s newest technique to turn out to be extra related, along with shopping for RedHat for its cloud experience, is to develop a sequence of “straightforward on-ramp” Cloud Paks that it claims can considerably scale back the period of time needed for enterprises to be cloud-enabled. However is that this sufficient to alter the potential of IBM to compete in a extremely aggressive fashionable cloud surroundings?
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.