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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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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. In partnership with AWS, the airlines started migrating many front-end applications and distributed applications that “marry” themselves well to the cloud while retaining traditional back-end workloads on the mainframe. “The

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8 big IT failures of 2023

CIO Business Intelligence

Both United Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines saw service outages in 2023 resulting from wonky software upgrades, and Southwest ended the previous year with a Christmas travel meltdown blamed on outdated systems. Probably the worst IT airline disaster of 2023 came on the government side, however.

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Top Technology News Ticker for 6 June 2016

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After acquisition by Google, Nest got "virtually unlimited budget", quadrupled employees, had no new products, caused constant bad PR, and may be for sale now (Ron Amadeo/Ars Technica). American Airlines signs contract with ViaSat for in-flight Wi-Fi on some of its planes, ending Gogo's exclusivity (Mike Freeman/Los Angeles Times).

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Re-imagine Enterprise Architecture, Re-energize Enterprise Architect

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Ten Quotes about EA Enterprise architecture increases business value by providing direction to shift the optimization point from the project to the enterprise Enterprise Architecture is a planning, governance, and innovation function that enables an organization to progress toward its vision of its future state.

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Stand By For Reporting From the Intelligence and National Security Summit 18-19 Sep 2014 #Intelligence2014

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Office of Management and Budget. United Airlines. Vice President, Enterprise Security. Central Intelligence Agency. Mr. Ron Brooks. Founder and Partner. Brooks and Bawden, LLC. Mr. Dustin Brown. Deputy Associate Director for Performance and Personnel Management. Mr. Michael Bruni. ISR Capture Staffing Manager. Tom Conway.

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New CIO appointments in India, 2022

CIO Business Intelligence

Pujari has over 25 years of experience across sectors including BFSI, manufacturing, consulting, publishing, airlines, and healthcare. Nitin Mittal joins Zee Entertainment Enterprises. Zee Entertainment Enterprise appoints Vishal Somani as head of enterprise IT. January 2022. Anup Purohit moves from Yes Bank to Wipro.