Air India moves IT to cloud; looks to upgrade technology

Air India, India's national airline, is beginning to move its IT to the cloud and is exploring the use of iPads for work, as it looks to upgrade its technology to keep up with competition.

Air India invests far less in technology than its private rivals and hasn't hired anyone for internal IT department in over a decade. But experts say competition and a far more tech-friendly government at the Centre has loosened the purse strings for IT investments.

"Air India has initiated a strategic move to use Cloud as a platform for creating IT infrastructure to avail the benefit of opex and payper-use models. E-file (paper less files) launched in January '15 is first Cloud adoption in Indian Data Center by AI," Mukesh Sareen, deputy general manager of IT at the airline told ET. "AI is looking at migrating more applications to the cloud. Migration will largely depend on expiry of support on internal IT infrastructure."

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