Company: Bewotec Gmbh
Application: Back office and booking services for the travel industry.
Server Configuration: 3 clusters of 2 servers
Reason For Deployment: Necessity to have stateful session-related information on client side.
Results: Bewotec now utilizes a data grid; its issue was resolved.
Background
Bewotec develops back office systems for travel agents and tour operators worldwide. It adopted ScaleOut StateServer® to have a distributed cache across its servers. Many instances of servers share session information.
Challenges
Bewotec was dependent upon a local caching model prior to deploying ScaleOut StateServer. The near cache did not have the capacity to access session objects among different instances of Bewotec’s applications, adversely affecting availability and performance. Bewotec also had the requirement to cache large data objects, which could not be allocated for each server process separately in the near cache. There could not be multiple versions of the same object.
Results
Bewotec chose ScaleOut StateServer after carefully reviewing similar distributed caching solutions that work with .NET. Bewotec determined that ScaleOut StateServer was the most proven and fully featured product available on the market, had the best customer references, and was the easiest to implement for its business-critical applications.
“Set-up was quite easy.”
–Michael Freitag, Head of development
Now, all session state information, along with some basic information about bookings, is stored within ScaleOut StateServer’s distributed cache. “We are quite happy at the moment,” said Michael Freitag, head of development at Bewotec.
“…In general this was the only possibility for us to have session information distributed between many of our server application instances.”
Deployment Details
Bewotec developed a special test network to setup ScaleOut StateServer’s distributed cache on a single server that ran multiple instances of a server process. When all tests showed satisfactory results, the decision was made to deploy ScaleOut StateServer. StateServer went from testing into full production within 1-2 months.
About Bewotec
Bewotec has its headquarters in Roesrath, near Cologne, Germany, and has been well known among travel agencies and tour operators throughout Europe since 1988. The company has grown to nearly 150 employees in 5 locations across Europe. At the present time, Bewotec has approximately 5,500 clients worldwide. Its customers include well-known brands including Hapag Lloyd Cruise (Germany), Kuoni (Switzerland), Austrian Tourist Bureau (ÖVB, Austria, 800 Workstations), RCI Europe, Sundio (Netherlands), Deilmann Cruise (Germany), Railtours (Switzerland), and many others. Industry associations such as TUI Travel Star (TUI-Group), and Holiday Land (Thomas-Cook-Group) recommend its products.
For further information visit: www.bewotec.de