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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. JetBlue, Feb. Lauderdale and Nassau.

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

CIO Business Intelligence

In addition, the AWS and IBM joint Enterprise Transformation Program (ETP), aimed at large-scale transformation and modernization efforts, helps enterprise customers adopt new digital operating models structurally and prescriptively, and transform with AWS to deliver strategic business outcomes. “The

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

CIO Business Intelligence

Broadcom Software recently hosted a Value Stream Management Summit , which highlighted real stories and proven lessons from some of the largest global enterprises. Extending VSM Beyond the Enterprise. When you think about a commercial airline manufacturer, their values streams aren’t just composed of software development.

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

CIO Business Intelligence

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. Cassandra enables enterprises to ingest and act on that data in real time, at scale, around the world.