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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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What CIOs Can Learn From An Upgrade Of Inflight Web Services

The Accidental Successful CIO

Airline CIOs are going to have to make some tough in-flight internet decisions Image Credit: Christopher Doyle. Back in the day, airline passengers could be assured that their time in the air meant that they had an excuse to unplug and step away from the constant need to do more and more work.

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Delta takes off with modernized blend of mainframes and cloud

CIO Business Intelligence

When it comes to IT, Delta Airlines is climbing higher into the clouds even as it keeps its footing on solid ground. We have hundreds of applications that we’re in the process of moving to the cloud but a lot of our main capabilities are underpinned by workloads on the mainframe and it’s definitely with us for the foreseeable future.”

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

CIO Business Intelligence

As part of their partnership, IBM and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are pursuing a variety of industry-specific blueprints and solutions designed to help customers modernize apps for a hybrid IT environment, which includes AWS Cloud. “The Application Management United’s Revenue Management Modernization Takes Flight.

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12 most popular AI use cases in the enterprise today

CIO Business Intelligence

Following is our analysis of the 12 most popular ways AI is being used across all industries in the enterprise today, as companies seek to capitalize on artificial intelligence’s promise to improve customer service, cut business costs, and supercharge business processes. AI can also be used for conducting initial video interviews.

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Elon Musk’s Starlink is only the beginning

Vox

Still, some think that Amazon, despite not having launched any satellite of its own yet, might eventually be at an advantage because the company could hook its space internet up to its already enormous cloud business, Amazon Web Services. ViaSat already provides satellite internet to several major airlines. Challenges ahead.

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As-Salaam-Alaikum: The cloud arrives in the Middle East!

All Things Distributed

Today, I am excited to announce plans for Amazon Web Services (AWS) to bring an infrastructure Region to the Middle East! One story from the Middle East I particularly like is flydubai, the leading low-cost airline in the region. Based in Bahrain, this will be the first Region for AWS in the Middle East.

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