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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

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. It will replace the standard MPLS network, he adds. At the same time, enterprises are increasingly pursuing zero-trust strategies.

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United Airlines gives employees the digital tools to make customers happy

CIO Business Intelligence

As CIO of United Airlines, Jason Birnbaum is laser focused on using technology and data to enable the company’s 86,000 employees to create as seamless a customer travel experience as possible. Their only option was to call the captain to call the network center to call the gate to get them to start checking bags.

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Fraport goes all in on private 5G network

CIO Business Intelligence

There were a multitude of reasons for Fraport AG, the operating company of Germany’s largest airport in Frankfurt, to build one of the largest European private 5G campus networks: automation, autonomous driving, localization of devices, and processing data in real time. So we’re not dependent on a carrier and their update plans.”

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Websites of Australia's Banks, Airlines, and Post Office Are All Down

Gizmodo

Australia’s major banks, airlines, and post office are all experiencing website outages that started Thursday afternoon local time, 12:30 a.m. ET, according to multiple reports from news outlets down under. Read more.

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Enabling enterprises to exert business level control over CSPs’ 5G network connectivity

TM Forum

This Catalyst explores how communication service providers (CSPs) can offer enterprises guaranteed and differentiated 5G connectivity services – with the security, data sovereignty and control that enterprises need to move more mission critical workloads onto the CSP’s 5G network.

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Cyber Security in Aviation

CTOvision

Whether or not Roberts’ claims were true or whether or not his intentions were malicious, he brought to light the significant need to readdress aviation cyber security. Gourley led the discussion centered around the intense landscape of cyber threats, stressing the lack of security for Air Traffic Control (ATC) and avionics platforms.

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