Scaling online sales for the largest railway in the world

Jens Koegler Transportation ,

Originally published on VMware Tanzu

China Railway Corporation is the national railway operator in China and manages all commuter rail and freight transport. With 5,700 train stations, they support the largest population in the world. Its website books 4–5 million tickets per day, based on 20 million daily users. Holiday travel periods create peaks of 15,000 tickets sold per minute, 1.4 billion page reviews per day, and 40,000 visits per second. With so many people relying on the website for travel, it must be continuously available. Demand has far exceeded expectations, and the future shows as much as 50 percent growth per year as mobile phone access is added.

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Jens Koegler

Jens Koegler is VMware's Healthcare Industry Director in EMEA. He is helping our healthcare customers develop and run modern applications to drive innovation and ensure better patient care through a digital foundation that includes data center, hybrid cloud, mobile, networking and security technologies. VMware plays a strategic role in the healthcare industry. Its leading innovations in enterprise software help ensure consistent patient care and reduce IT access time for healthcare professionals so they can spend more time with their patients. Jens plays a key role in helping customers understand how new applications, devices, the latest IT technologies and digital transformation are driving innovation in healthcare.