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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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Understanding Digital Interactions in Real-Time

CIO Business Intelligence

An enterprise that focuses on building an event-based architecture for real-time applications will be in a much better position to build a real-time analytics platform. Think about a courier company delivering a package, or an airliner touching down 30 minutes behind schedule: these are digitally mediated offline activities.

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Ugh! There's an App for That!

Phil Windley

Delta airlines didn't accept any that I could tell. Beyond health pass applications, things like mobile drivers licenses need to be interoperable to be useful. Fortunately, we have open-source technology, with multiple commercial providers , that can provide interoperable credentials. Munich has its own—or three.

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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.

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Why CIOs Need to Understand Apache Cassandra

CIO Business Intelligence

By Jeff Carpenter You might have heard of Apache Cassandra, the open-source NoSQL database. But did you know that Cassandra is used by a huge range of companies — including small, cloud-native application builders, financial firms, and broadcasters? (You Online banking services, airline booking systems, and popular retail apps.

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The new challenges of scale: What it takes to go from PB to EB data scale

CIO Business Intelligence

Leveraging an open-source solution like Apache Ozone, which is specifically designed to handle exabyte-scale data by distributing metadata throughout the entire system, not only facilitates scalability in data management but also ensures resilience and availability at scale.

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The Laws of Identity

Phil Windley

Further, the open source code provides reference code for the applications that helps vendors of products that participate in credential exchange to create consistent, interoperable experiences. The user experience is supported by the actors and roles in the protocol and the actions that each can take.

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