AAHK leverages IBM Services to accelerate a massive cloud transformation

The Airport Authority Hong Kong (AAHK) has announced a plan to use IBM Services to accelerate a massive cloud transformation designed to address continuous business growth and customer demand, and improve overall business agility.

IBM will provide AAHK with a robust portfolio of services to support its migration to the cloud. The IBM Services team will help AAHK to become familiar with technical details and dependencies of more than 110 applications, analyse migration patterns and approaches, finalise target state architecture, conduct microservices, and execute cloud application migration and modernisation.

With the Hong Kong International Airport’s (HKIA) three-runway system to be implemented by 2024, as well as the rollout of the development plan for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, it's expected that there will be an increasing demand in air passenger volume and the related services and facilities at HKIA. 

To support the anticipated increasing demand and continuous business growth in the long run, AAHK will need to enhance a significant proportion of its applications to improve the overall agility of its scalable business functions and operations, and facilitate infrastructure optimisation.

"Our clients are turning to the cloud to achieve greater agility, build more efficient and faster business processes, and ultimately enable better customer experiences. As an industry leader, AAHK remains at the fore in this digital era. We are delighted that they will tap the industry expertise of IBM to accelerate their modernisation journey and elevate their organization to new heights," said Francis Ngai, general manager of IBM China/Hong Kong. 

IBM will also work with AAHK to employ DevSecOps in the continuous integration or continuous delivery pipeline design and implementation. In addition, IBM will work together with American multinational software company Red Hat to implement the Red Hat OpenShift Container platform. With managed services for the IBM public cloud, AAHK will establish a new support centre to manage the operation and maintenance of its hybrid cloud platform.

“We are excited to be part of AAHK’s cloud transformation. Red Hat OpenShift provides the ability to build nearly any application for deployment anywhere across the hybrid cloud with consistency and flexibility,” said Peter Man, general manager, Red Hat Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macau.

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