The second segment of Cathay Pacific’s digital transformation will take flight this year with cloud optimization and secure networking as top goals, IT GM Rajeev Nair says. Credit: Rajeev Nair / Cathay Pacific Group Even as its cloud journey reaches cruising altitude, Cathay Pacific Group IT is not slowing down. Instead, the publicly held operator of Cathay Pacific Airlines and HK Express is shifting from migration to optimization mode in an effort to wrest additional benefits from its all-in cloud transformation. “Cloud optimization is the new initiative in 2024,” says Rajeev Nair, general manager of IT infrastructure and security at Cathay, a major airliner and cargo carrier in the Asia-Pacific region, with headquarters in Hong Kong. “It’s about optimizing the cloud workload, rewriting some of the applications, and, [as] ESG comes into the big picture, how we can be more efficient to reduce Co2 emissions.” Cathay launched its cloud journey four years ago, and its migration has accelerated over the past three years. To date, the carrier has migrated an estimated 98% of its 400 applications, mostly to AWS, but with some workloads on Azure and a plan for further “rebalancing” cloud providers to ensure Cathay is not locked […]
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