CASE STUDY stringent governance requirements , it uses the fully managed data backup as a service solution HYCU in partnership with Google Cloud .
“ The next step is to migrate our tier-two operations , our finance , and HR applications over to Google Cloud . For this , we will use the business insights and monitoring tools in the operations suite ,” added Bachoo . “ And we ’ re looking at using Cloud Run to help us to scale more flexibly and to optimise our development systems with DevOps .
Google Cloud accelerates organisations ’ ability to digitally transform their business with the best infrastructure , platform , industry solutions and expertise . The company delivers enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google ’ s cutting-edge technology – all on the cleanest cloud in the industry . Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems .
Niral Patel , Director , Google Cloud Africa , said : “ With the customer positioned at the heart of everything the team does at Comair , we are proud to deliver the cloud infrastructure capabilities and tools that will further engrain the airline ’ s brand promise to be the easiest to book and pay . Comair ’ s Digital Transformation journey started before the pandemic , and was indeed accelerated by it , but the airline had taken a head start to digitisation before the global lockdown was even in sight by migrating to the cloud . Also , by accelerating cloud adoption , Comair is able to reduce processing power for its systems and become more sustainable .”
Flying into the digital world
All these tools are helping the 78-year-old airline transform on both the strategic and operations fronts into a futuristic digital organisation , ready to make the most of social and mobile communications and data analytics . “ Rather than simply lifting and shifting into the cloud , Google Cloud has helped us rethink our architecture and our entire communications ecosystem so that everything works in harmony . It ’ s all in the details . For example , we can now trigger push notifications using the Google Cloud middleware and streaming service Pub / Sub ,” Bachoo said .
Even with these additional benefits , the airline ’ s monthly operating costs are now about a fifth of what they were for its previous on-premises IT architecture , and it is now far quicker and easier for it to scale its various operations too . “ Google Cloud enables us to optimise our costs and has given us a technology stack that scales up and down in line with demand . Previously , if we had an offer on , often our infrastructure couldn ’ t keep up with the volume of sales . Now we seamlessly scale up for busy periods ,” explained Bachoo .
Comair is using less processing power too . Its billing system , for example , was using 32 core and 256 gigabytes of RAM . Now that it is running in Google Cloud , it uses 6 core and 32 gigabytes of RAM .
Bachoo added : “ We ’ ve reduced our core usage by more than half and our RAM use by about 50 %, which again helps us reduce costs and makes us more sustainable .”
With its infrastructure optimised for the opportunities that the twenty-first century affords , Comair is now all set to make the most of its data . “ We ’ re starting to build a data foundation built on AI and Machine Learning that will open up more opportunities for us and improve our customers ’ experience . It will mean that we can analyse consumer data on an on-going basis to create more personalised products and services and new opportunities for cross-selling . Google Cloud has created a lot of exciting openings for us ,” Bachoo said . p
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