MakeMyTrip deploys Dell Enterprise Solutions

Intro: Dell, a leading end-to-end technology solutions provider has been chosen by MakeMyTrip.com, an online travel company, to deliver improved performance and high availability for its e-commerce site. The Dell solution, comprising of Dell™ PowerEdge 12^th generation servers and Dell PowerVault storage, provides a virtualized infrastructure helps improve operational efficiency for Makemytrip.com while reducing management time by 50 percent.

Profile

MakeMyTrip.com, India’s leading online travel company was founded in the year 2000 by Deep Kalra. Created to empower the Indian traveller with instant booking and comprehensive choices, the company began its journey in the US-India travel market. It aimed to offer a range of best-value products and services along with cutting-edge technology and dedicated round-the-clock customer support. After consolidating its position in the market as a brand recognised for its reliability and transparency, MakeMyTrip followed its success in the US by launching its India operations in 2005.

MakeMyTrip offered travellers the convenience of online travel bookings at rock-bottom prices. Rapidly, MakeMyTrip became the preferred choice of millions of travellers who were delighted to be empowered by a few mouse clicks!

Challenge

Within the highly competitive travel industry, having the flexibility to innovate is critical in meeting growing demands of consumers moving online to research and purchase travel products. With fluctuations in travel prices from suppliers impacting revenue, MakeMyTrip needed to maximize its margins by running efficient infrastructure.

MakeMyTrip wanted to consolidate its data center on high-performance servers to outpace market growth within the expanding online travel sector in India. They needed servers that deliver higher performance and could take more load without increasing density or energy consumption.

The Solution

MakeMyTrip deployed Dell PowerEdge 12th generation servers to consolidate its data center infrastructure running the company’s private cloud. MakeMyTrip used Dell PowerVault direct attached storage to provide additional storage capacity for its database and server needs. PowerVault Storage is also used as network storage when data needs to be shared across the LAN environment.

Benefit

MakeMyTrip experienced significant energy efficiencies and space savings through maximizing its compute power on Dell PowerEdge R910 and R610 servers, which contributes to the bottom line. The volume of traffic that the site can now support has increased, enabling the company to proactively pursue new customers. To ensure the e-commerce site remains highly available and provides a consistently reliable user experience, MakeMyTrip also selected Dell ProSupport with Mission Critical 4-Hour Onsite Response.

“When customers are searching for a particular travel package, they want highly targeted, quick results or they will simply go elsewhere. With high-performance hardware from Dell, our infrastructure is delivering 30 percent better performance to our site when compared with the existing hardware, which means we can serve our customers faster.” Sanjay Kharb, Vice President of IT, MakeMyTrip.com