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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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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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GreenOps, FinOps, And The Sustainable Cloud

Forrester IT

But data shows that public cloud now has a greater carbon footprint than the airline industry – a notoriously carbon-intensive segment. The consistent, high-usage profile of data centers may lead us to believe that cloud data centers are markedly more sustainable than private cloud data centers.

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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. JetBlue, Feb. Lauderdale and Nassau.

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

CIO Business Intelligence

The solutions, some in pilot stage and others in early development, transcend a variety of core industries, including manufacturing, financial services, healthcare, and transportation. The program builds a meaningful partnership between AWS, IBM, and the client to deliver an integrated program.

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What’s New, What’s Next for Value Stream Management

CIO Business Intelligence

Once thought of as a methodology exclusive to IT and DevOps, VSM is now used to align the entire enterprise and is the connective tissue between strategy, development, and customer value. For development, it’s not about the number of story points. This will also extend well beyond development. What’s New. Conclusion.

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

CIO Business Intelligence

By Aaron Ploetz, Developer Advocate. Think of the modern applications and workloads that have to be reliable, like online banking services, or those that operate at huge, distributed scale, such as airline booking systems or popular retail apps. Learn more about DataStax here. About Aaron Ploetz : DataStax.