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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. Taking to the cloud. American Airlines. “We

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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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American Airlines Adopts Public Cloud Computing

Cloud Musings

Just like Americas aging physical infrastructure, the airlines are suffering from years of minimal investment in their information technology. ExpressJet, March 20, 2017 - A system-wide outage at ExpressJet delayed flights it operates as Delta, United, and American Airlines for hours. JetBlue, Feb. I look forward to the stampede.

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Cathay Pacific to take cloud journey to new heights

CIO Business Intelligence

Even as its cloud journey reaches cruising altitude, Cathay Pacific Group IT is not slowing down. Instead, the publicly held operator of Cathay Pacific Airlines and HK Express is shifting from migration to optimization mode in an effort to wrest additional benefits from its all-in cloud transformation.

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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. When we think about the person who has the CIO job, we think of someone who spends their time thinking about the importance of information technology including such things as cloud computing, building new data centers, and the arrival of the internet of things.

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Russian Airline at home in the cloud

Computer Weekly

S7 Airlines in Russia looks set to move more of its IT to the cloud after successful infrastructure-as-a-service project

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Rackspace technology—Award-winning, multi-cloud modernization powered by VMware

CIO Business Intelligence

A long-time VMware partner, Rackspace Technology provides the expertise, guidance, and services to help companies create and execute complex multi-cloud strategies, as well as modernize operations. The airline saw a 300% increase in online sales when the new site, bolstered by the improved technology, went live.

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