The Company
eMinds is an Italian software house specializing in the development of solutions for the travel sector. It supports tour operators and TMCs (Travel Management Companies) in the creation, management, and booking of customized travel itineraries. The company directly handles both server configuration and maintenance as well as the development of its own platform, natively integrating the APIs of leading travel service providers. Every day, the platform processes large volumes of real-time requests, offering tourism professionals a fast, reliable, and tailored engine.
Main Products
eMinds’ proprietary platform enables tour operators and intermediaries to build complex itineraries by simultaneously querying the APIs of multiple providers—from GDSs to hotel chains, from bedbanks to car rental providers—and returning availability, prices, and possible combinations for each stage of the journey in just a few moments.
The application, based on a Java and Tomcat backend, a C# frontend with IIS, and a MySQL database, is customized according to each customer’s needs and deployed across dedicated development, testing, and production environments.
The solution offered by eMinds is continuously evolving, both in terms of product and technology, to respond promptly to changes in suppliers’ APIs. This approach allows eMinds’ customers to offer travelers increasingly personalized and up-to-date travel services.
The Requirement
eMinds’ operations require an infrastructure capable of supporting very intense workloads, due to the simultaneous querying of numerous APIs and the need to deliver immediate responses, enabling customers to build tailor-made itineraries in real time. This calls for a high-performance, always-available platform that can scale rapidly when new tour operators join or when increased demand makes additional computing power necessary.
The Solution
eMinds chose Aruba Cloud dedicated servers to host its platform and ensure the computing power required to manage API queries and real-time travel itinerary creation and booking processes.
The entire architecture is constantly monitored in order to quickly identify any anomalies or the need for upgrades. As workloads grow and the number of tour operators relying on eMinds increases, the company can scale the infrastructure horizontally by activating new servers without impacting service continuity.
Benefits
Costs
The adoption of Aruba Cloud dedicated servers allows eMinds to maintain full control over its infrastructure and fully leverage available hardware resources, optimizing the use of computing power while maintaining an efficient and predictable cost model.
High-performance dedicated servers enable eMinds to handle high and variable workloads while ensuring reduced response times—an essential factor for real-time request processing in the travel sector, where response speed directly affects service quality. A significant contribution also comes from the location of the servers in Italy, close to the majority of customers. This choice reduces latency and further enhances the overall service experience.
Scalability
Horizontal scalability, managed through the Aruba Cloud Management Platform, allows eMinds to add new servers in a gradual and controlled manner. Within the same platform, the infrastructure can evolve by integrating additional Aruba Cloud services, avoiding the complexity of relying on different providers for the various infrastructure components.
Future Developments
In the coming years, eMinds plans to further expand its server infrastructure in line with the growth of its customer base and to extend it internationally, supporting global partners more efficiently through geographically closer servers.
At the same time, the company is evaluating strengthening the existing infrastructure by integrating additional advanced cybersecurity solutions, enhanced storage and backup systems, and business continuity services offered by Aruba Cloud. The goal is to make the platform increasingly robust and resilient, ready to support the ongoing evolution of the travel sector.
