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Malaysia Airlines was running its 10-module SAP deployment that was running
on aging, costly IBM P-Series hardware and AIX 6.2 software. With the help of
Tata Consultancy Services, the airline shifted its SAP solution to Windows Server
2016 and SQL Server 2016 running on Azure Virtual Machines (VMs).
The company also moved its legacy infrastructure (a proprietary UNIX
machine) to Azure VMs. Now, Malaysia Airlines runs 80 percent of its apps
on Azure, with the other 20 percent remaining on its own platform. And with
Azure Express Route, the company can manage its on-premises and cloud-
based assets through one system, lowering total IT costs by 45 percent.
Chapter 04 Reducing your overhead and stimulating growth
The path to migration
Malaysia Airlines runs 80
percent of its apps on Azure
80%
Azure serves as our primary technology platform for what we
call the evolving digital airline. We use it to engage closely with
our customers and to enhance the customer relationship and
customer value, while maximizing efficiency and effectiveness
for the front-end and back-office operations.
Tan Kok Meng
CIO, Malaysia Airlines
