Stackmasters, the European OpenStack experts and Managed Cloud services provider, today announced its ongoing partnership with one of the biggest online travel agencies in Europe, tripsta, to develop an OpenStack based private cloud and related processes.

The OpenStack based private cloud is going to host existing applications as well as to support the company’s software development teams to their cloud-native modern software architecture by leveraging open technology and efficient process models.

“The most significant step in order to adopt the cloud with success is made by companies where business and IT leadership is aware that their digital transformation is driven by more than the technology solution,” said Thanassis Parathyras, CTO of Stackmasters. “Tripsta, along with other companies we support in EU, digested the open technology and cloud initiatives to achieve agility and efficiency in their business objectives, and we ‘re excited to participate in the project for building the tripsta cloud.”

“Tripsta has long before embraced open-source software and understands its important role in cloud technology which allows both the operators team and the development teams to utilize company’s resources in order to develop and enrich our leading on line booking services,” said Yiannis Polizois, Systems Administration Manager at tripsta. “Making things happen, we first had to build a cloud infrastructure and setup the respective processes. With Stackmasters support we are able to iterate over several cycles resulting in defining the right strategy and select suitable technologies towards bringing improved performance for our business.”

About Stackmasters

Stackmasters is a Cloud Specialist company founded in 2014, uniquely combining years of technical and business experience in IT with the enthusiasm of a cutting- edge tech startup. Its founders are specialists in Cloud Computing and have been following the emerging paradigm since its beginning from all its aspects, wearing the hat of the provider, the consumer, the engineer and consultant, and, last but not least, that of the academic researcher. Stackmasters carries the legacy and technical expertise of Virtual Trip, the established Greek IT services company and technology incubator, and focuses on grid computing, distributed systems and architecture, virtualisation and open-source software implementations. View more

About tripsta

In 2005 two restless entrepreneurs founded a startup initially called travelplanet24 in the heart of one of the world’s travel hot spots, Athens Greece. Today our online travel agency, tripsta, is one of the largest and most recognized leaders in the industry. Our trusted brands, tripsta, airtickets®, and travelplanet24 are preferred by more than a million loyal travelers throughout the 45 global markets that we presently operate in. With offices in Athens, Bucharest and Istanbul our committed team of 280 passionate travel geniuses ensure that you reach your destination with guaranteed low prices and dedicated support.