United Airlines boosts application availability, achieves zero-downtime patching, and elevates security with dynamic Linux management.
Oracle Linux and Ksplice have been game changers for United. We’ve consolidated our IT environment, eliminated vulnerabilities, and streamlined security compliance—we can now roll out patches with zero downtime.
Senior Manager, Platform Engineering, United Airlines
With 4,500 flights touching down in more than 300 airports spanning five continents each day, United Airlines, its employees, and its customers are in a state of perpetual motion. To consistently ensure a superior customer experience, the company has to ensure maximum uptime for both internal- and external-facing applications.
United relies on Oracle Linux and Ksplice to optimize application availability and simplify its overall change management process, enabling it to roll out patches with zero downtime. Oracle Linux and Ksplice allowed United to boost security and service level agreement (SLA) compliance with an automated and fully documented patching regimen.
With Oracle Linux, we found an operating system that lets us maximize the uptime of our applications. The ability to patch our kernel live with Ksplice, without a reboot, is a huge win. It also helps us meet security compliance patching requirements.
Senior Manager, Platform Engineering, United Airlines