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What CIOs Can Learn From An Upgrade Of Inflight Web Services

The Accidental Successful CIO

Airline CIOs are going to have to make some tough in-flight internet decisions Image Credit: Christopher Doyle. Back in the day, airline passengers could be assured that their time in the air meant that they had an excuse to unplug and step away from the constant need to do more and more work.

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Amazon stock rises after beating Q3 estimates with $143.1B in revenue, $9.9B in profits

GeekWire

Amazon’s cost-cutting moves over the past year, including thousands of layoffs and tightening of its fulfillment network, appear to be helping improve the company’s bottom line as it manages macroeconomic forces such as inflation and interest rates. Amazon Web Services: Amazon’s cloud business was up 12% at $23 billion, with $6.9

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12 most popular AI use cases in the enterprise today

CIO Business Intelligence

Meanwhile, companies such as Pentagon Credit Union (PenFed) are using chatbots and conversational AI to help customers get answers to common questions faster, reducing the load on customer service reps. Artificial Intelligence, Chatbots, IT Strategy, Predictive Analytics

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Tech Moves: Qumulo hires cloud CTO; ex-Tableau CMO joins Conversica board; 98point6 adds COO

GeekWire

Corey spent the past five years at Amazon Web Services, most recently leading the transformation team for enterprise customers. She previously held IT roles at Tyler Technologies, Novartis-Alcon Labs and Southwest Airlines. . — Seattle startup Qumulo named Janine Corey as its cloud chief technology officer.

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First job lessons: Seattle tech startup CEOs on what they learned from car washing, delivery, and more

GeekWire

It is very deep device driver level work in Windows which controls how your files are located across the network and optimized for performance and easy access across a large enterprise.”. Medina, co-founder and CEO, previously worked for Amazon Web Services and led a division of Microsoft. What did you learn from it? “I

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As-Salaam-Alaikum: The cloud arrives in the Middle East!

All Things Distributed

Today, I am excited to announce plans for Amazon Web Services (AWS) to bring an infrastructure Region to the Middle East! I'm also excited to announce today that we are launching an AWS Edge Network Location in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in the first quarter of 2018. It is now being used by thousands of passengers a day.

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Banks, brokerages, PSN, the Steam Store, and more went down in massive internet outage

The Verge

During the outage, consumers were unable to access services like Ally Bank, Fidelity, Sony’s PlayStation Network, Airbnb, and more. Several airline sites were also affected: Delta, British Airways, and Southwest’s sites were either down, or had important functionality like flight check-ins broken. Wear a Mask.

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