Success Stories

Lufthansa Technik, one of the world’s largest independent provider of airline maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) services, wanted to create a digital platform for the aviation industry. This platform, called AVIATAR, would help airlines avoid delays and cancellations by using data to better organize and schedule maintenance. The company built and operated AVIATAR using a hybrid cloud infrastructure based on enterprise open source software from Red Hat. Nowadays, Lufthansa Technik provides an innovative digital platform that helps the world’s airlines optimize their operations. Challenge: Lufthansa Technik wanted to help airlines use data to better organize and schedule maintenance events—to improve costs, productivity, and the passenger experience. The company’s solution, AVIATAR, […]

Joomla is a free and open source content management system (CMS) designed to assist users in building websites and other online applications. The name Joomla, which was chosen from thousands of community suggestions, is a phonetic spelling for the Swahili word “Jumla,” which means “all together” or “as a whole“. The Joomla logo is made up of four “J’s” rotated and linked together that represent the community coming together as one. The ecosystem of Joomla developers and users provide products and services to the Joomla community which has more than one-half million members and more than 20,000 developers. Joomla’s main open source CMS competitors include WordPress and Drupal. What Can […]

Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport, Europe’s third busiest airport, decided recently to turn to using open source software to become more efficient and offer better service. Servicing more than 63.6 million passengers and processing more than 1.7 million tons of cargo last year, Amsterdam Airport Schiphol is Europe’s third largest airport in terms of passenger number and cargo volume. With the help from open source solutions company, Red Hat, Amsterdam Airport Schiphol started to create a self-service, multi-cloud platform for its internal IT team and its business partners, slashing development time as it creates new services for travellers. The 100-year-old airport reviewed its IT services strategy and wanted a scalable application platform […]

Hand-in-hand with the big data revolution has been the development of non-relational databases required to do all of this big data analysis. While it is too early to declare a winner in the NoSQL race, MongoDB seems to be leading the pack in terms of mindshare and customers, not to mention capital raised. With a successful team of tech veterans, MongoDB is generally acknowledged as the leader, even by its competitors. MongoDB is a free and open-source cross-platform document-oriented database program. Classified as a NoSQL database program, MongoDB uses JSON-like documents with schemas. MongoDB is developed by MongoDB Inc., and is published under a combination of the GNU Affero General […]

With tens of millions of users and more than a billion page views every day, Facebook ends up accumulating massive amounts of data, especially considering the amount of media it consumes. One of the challenges that Facebook has faced since the early days is developing a scalable way of storing and processing all these bytes since using this historical data is a very big part of how they can improve the user experience on Facebook. Years ago, Facebook began playing around with the idea of implementing, The Open Source Software, Hadoop to handle their massive data consumption and aggregation. Their hesitant first steps of importing some interesting data sets into […]

Oracle customers are facing a big data problem, and Hadoop has become the answer – reluctant as Oracle is to admit it. Speaking at the Oracle product and strategy update in London, Oracle president Mark Hurd said that the company’s customers are growing their data up to 40% a year, putting tremendous pressure on IT budgets. “Growth of 40% data with customers who spend $10,000 a terabyte to house the data; most of our customers spend 10 of their IT budgets on storage, and if you take those three numbers and put them together you’re going to grow your IT budgets 3-5% just housing the data,” said Hurd. Oracle offers […]

Since its genesis as part of a NASA/Rackspace joint effort, dozens of companies have signed on in support of OpenStack. Its widespread support has become something of a double-edged sword, with critics pointing out that, although a lot of companies claim to support it, it’s unclear how many are actually contributing to or even using OpenStack. Still, there are more than 6,000 lines of code in OpenStack, so someone is doing something. Despite having to contend with Amazon and CloudStack, OpenStack is firmly entrenched in the cloud market. OpenStack is a free and open-source software platform for cloud computing, mostly deployed as infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), whereby virtual servers and other resources […]

Egypt has developed a special urban cadastral system, General Authority for space, and the Ministry of Irrigation and Water Resources, using free open source software, which is software that has proven its efficiency and reliability for the implementation of mega-projects low cost and high quality. The urban cadastral project is Is a system depends on the order of registration according to the sites objects where allocated for each building. It was developed by an open source software such as a content management system (Joomla), the programming language (PHP), the database management syste, (MySQL), and Apache to create web servers. Also, It was relying on an open-source operating system based on […]

Given that Egypt covers an area of over 1 million square kilometres, the government has been keen to explore the potential of Telemedicine. By using the proper ICT tools to connect the skilful doctors with patients in remote areas. Egypt started their telemedicine experience by a project used an open source system to connect Siwa Central Hospital with a center of excellence at Shatby Children’s hospital in Alexandria. The project is based on the cloud computing system for remote medical diagnosis that assists in the transfer of medical data necessary for diagnosis, treatment and health awareness. It comprises medical images, video/voice direct binary files and patient medical records. The system […]