RIU Hotels and Resorts
At RIU resorts, Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise data centers ensure high availability and optimized performance.
- Country: Spain
- Industry: Hospitality
- Solution: Autonomous Network, Data Center
Founded in Mallorca by the Riu family in 1953 as a small holiday firm, the company specializes in primarily all-inclusive holiday resorts. RIU Hotels & Resorts now welcome over 3.3 million guests a year. RIU is currently the world’s 31st ranked chain, one of the Caribbean’s most popular and the third largest in Spain.
The first reason we chose Alcatel-Lucent for the core network solution was because the proposal they made put forward a comprehensive solution. By that I mean that it had a whole series of functionalities that we thought Riu needed. That was the first reason, another was that it was within the budget we had.
Riu Hotels and Resort Customer Video
Challenges
- Wanted to improve user experience
- Required high availability data centers
- Wanted to improve access to data and therefore optimize performance
Results
- As the solution was already pre-configured before installation, migration was a very quick and successful process
- Ease of management of a virtual environment