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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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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]. Successful digital businesses have found the secret to unleashing the data and business processes within their mainframe-based applications.

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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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IBM and AWS Create a Path to Modernization Via Industry-Specific Solutions

CIO Business Intelligence

United Airlines took to the cloud to modernize its Revenue Management system to reduce costs, but also to land on a platform that didn’t limit its ability to apply modern revenue management processes. Application Management United’s Revenue Management Modernization Takes Flight. For more information, visit [link].

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Battle Scars from OpenStack Deployments

Scott Lowe

Applications do not get onboarded to OpenStack. A lack of DevOps skills and a lack of understanding around OpenStack APIs can impede the process of porting applications to OpenStack, which in turn makes it harder to justify the cloud project. American Airlines is still in a very exploratory stage with containers.

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Two Reasons Why Apache Cassandra Is the Database for Real-Time Applications

CIO Business Intelligence

There are many statistics that link business success to application speed and responsiveness. The time that it takes for a database to receive a request, process the transaction, and return a response to an app can be a real detriment to an application’s success. By Aaron Ploetz, Developer Advocate. Real-time data around the world.