KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 30): Malaysia Airlines Bhd said its data centre is now operating under a 100% hybrid-cloud model to achieve cost savings and improve operational efficiency.
 
Malaysia Airlines has selected Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) to undertake the airline’s largest ever IT transformation project, according to Malaysia Airlines and Tata's joint statement today.

"To better enable a competitive-edge and future readiness for the airline, TCS orchestrated the massive and complex project to migrate the airline’s core mission-critical data centre infrastructure and myriad applications to a hybrid-cloud model operating 80% on Microsoft Azure and 20% on a private cloud.

"The pioneering move makes Malaysia Airlines the world’s first full-service airline to completely replace its existing data centres and adopt full-scale cloud solutions for its entire range of nearly 200 applications running mission-critical commercial, operations and corporate systems," Malaysia Airlines and Tata said.

Malaysia Airlines and Tata said the cloud-centric model is achieving “exemplary” results, including a 51% cost reduction forecast over a five-year period from mid-2016 and productivity improvements of up to 80% for core applications.