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5 questions CIOs must ask after Southwest Airlines’ failure

CIO Business Intelligence

The last thing any CIO wants is to experience catastrophic operational issues during a peak season, but that’s exactly what executives at Southwest Airlines faced last week. 19-28 far exceeded any other airlines’ operational impacts. Even before the blizzard hit, Southwest Airlines CEO Bob Jordan acknowledged on Nov.

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American Airlines Adopts Public Cloud Computing

Cloud Musings

Just like Americas aging physical infrastructure, the airlines are suffering from years of minimal investment in their information technology. ExpressJet, March 20, 2017 - A system-wide outage at ExpressJet delayed flights it operates as Delta, United, and American Airlines for hours. JetBlue, Feb. JetBlue, Feb. Lauderdale and Nassau.

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DevOps and the Mainframe, A perfect match?

Forrester IT

For instance, the mainframe is leveraged by 92 of the top 100 banks worldwide, 23 of the top 25 US retailers, all 10 of the world's 10 largest insurers, and 23 of the world's 25 largest airlines. [i]. The drive for speed to counter competitors and deliver new and agile solutions has never been more evident. I&O transformation.

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What’s New, What’s Next for Value Stream Management

CIO Business Intelligence

Once thought of as a methodology exclusive to IT and DevOps, VSM is now used to align the entire enterprise and is the connective tissue between strategy, development, and customer value. When you think about a commercial airline manufacturer, their values streams aren’t just composed of software development.

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