Air France has reported that it has achieved improved automation and reliability from the employment of a private cloud.

The cloud service, which is based on HP’s Service Automation (CSA) software, has seen improvements across 1,500 Linux servers employed by the aerospace firm, with automated standardisation helping to reduce costs and allowing for the ease of use of analytic services.

The private cloud service also will provide increased flexibility and faster deployment times of new services and applications.

The costs of the private cloud service are expected to be covered by savings achieved from efficiencies within the year.

Patrick Bourel, head of open systems at Air France, said: “This scalable platform will allow Air France to put in place monitoring and audit tools in order to achieve better quality of service”.

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