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Why the Airline Industry Must Shift to a Data-centric Mentality

IT Toolbox

The many benefits of becoming data-centric instead of application-centric. The post Why the Airline Industry Must Shift to a Data-centric Mentality appeared first on Spiceworks.

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American Airlines takes flight with analytics transformation

CIO Business Intelligence

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, airlines have struggled with bad weather, fewer air traffic controllers, and a shortage of pilots, all leading to an unprecedented number of cancelations in 2022. Leibman notes that American Airlines operates every hour of every day. American Airlines. “We Leibman, who stepped down on Sept.

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Alaska Airlines and Intelsat to roll out next-gen satellite WiFi on regional jets starting in 2024

GeekWire

(Intelsat Photo) Alaska Airlines will invest $25 million to upgrade its regional jets with a new WiFi system from Intelsat capable of download speeds in the hundreds of megabits per second, using both traditional geostationary and new low-Earth orbit satellites.

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CIOs Struggle To Keep Their Airlines In The Air

The Accidental Successful CIO

Airlines run on their IT systems and CIOs have to keep these running. However, when it comes to airlines, their CIOs are spending their time thinking about more practical things like just exactly how to go about keeping their critical IT systems up and running. The Challenge Of Running An Airline. Image Credit: Job Garcia.

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American Airlines Adopts Public Cloud Computing

Cloud Musings

With all the major technologies changes since then, it’s clear that IBM has already accomplished a herculean task by keeping an application viable for over 50 years! Just like Americas aging physical infrastructure, the airlines are suffering from years of minimal investment in their information technology. JetBlue, Feb.

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Tech Moves: WTIA elects new board leadership; Adriane Brown joins American Airlines board

GeekWire

Seattle venture capitalist Adriane Brown is joining the board of American Airlines Group, one of the largest airlines in the world. Kao previously led product marketing for the Modern Applications solution at AWS. Adriane Brown. Axon Photo). Wampold has been a marketing executive at CommerceIQ, Cloudability, Qumulo and Chef.

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Nordic airline averts business disaster with application performance monitoring

Computer Weekly

Following an emergency decision to move to Amazon Web Services, Iceland’s Wow Air has wholeheartedly bought into the cloud

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