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Technical Operations: Lastminute Success Case

Overview lastminute.com is Europe's leading independent travel and leisure website. Lastminute began to seriously study how to leverage available technology (e.g. management and monitoring software) together with strategic partnerships with technology services companies to guarantee that the technical environment could scale as quickly as business needs required. All this while reducing the growth rate of infrastructure costs. Lastminute was looking for scalable, stable solutions at reasonable cost. Globant delivered a core team of Linux, Solaris and Informix database experts that filled critical holes in the technical operations support team.

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Publisher	Globant	File Format	HTML
Date Published	May 2007
Format	Case Studies
Topics	Linux - Open Source, Sun Solaris, Linux Server OS

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