Amex Global Business Travel is investing in modern IT, including cloud analytics, to pivot its business towards serving the traveller in their whole journey MORE

When it comes to our annual look at what wacky things the TSA pulls out of travelers’ carryon luggage, every year the crazy seems to get a little crazier and the scary, well you know where we are going with this. Interestingly the TSA finds some amusement or amazement in these finding as it now posts its own Top 10 Most Unusual Finds which outlines the most “dangerous and often times wacky items” it has kept off commercial airliners. To start, we need to look at guns. MORE

Email travel plans, build a master itinerary, and access it anywhere online. With today’s myriad of travel sites, even the most experienced traveler has their hands full managing all the details of a typical trip. MORE

Getting Caught Up What Happened In September 2017 September 28, 2017 – 10:04 pm Print Friendly, PDF & Email server storage I/O data infrastructure trends Getting Caught Up, What Happened In September? Seems like just yesterday it was the end of August with the start of VMworld in Las Vegas, now its the end of September and Microsoft Ignite in Orlando is wrapping up. MORE

Snowball storage servers now travel the other way too Read More. Amazon Cloud Computing Storage MORE

With September being generally known as back to school month, the two September event bookends were VMware VMworld and Microsoft Ignite with many other things in between. The post September 2017 Server StorageIO Data Infrastructure Update Newsletter appeared first on StorageIOblog. MORE

Some executives think that travel and entertainment (T&E) expense claims are a licence to practise their creative fiction skills MORE

ERP automates various business operations, making it a valuable resource in the travel and tourism sector. This software streamlines day-to-day processes, such as payroll, lead generation, reporting and human resources management, and provides travel agents, hoteliers and tour operators with the resources they need to manage their businesses. MORE

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It’s on our bucket list to travel more, and we always brag to friends and families about the day where we’ll get to pack a suitcase and take off to explore the globe. The tool businesses have been taking advantage of is one travelers are discovering how to harness, and the results are enough to make traveling the world an easy and obtainable reality. How are travelers using big data to save money ? 1.They Can Have a Travel Agent – for Free. Rick Delgado. MORE

Catching a full-sized military drone traveling at full speed without destroying it midflight is no easy task. But DARPA this week said a research project it has been working – known as SideArm -- is doing just that and more. MORE

Railway stations in The Netherlands are monitoring the movement of travellers to manage traffic flow and reduce people jams MORE

Cody Bunch recently posted a quick round-up of what he carries when traveling, and just for fun I thought I’d do the same. Like Cody, I don’t know that I would consider myself a road warrior, but I have traveled a pretty fair amount. Technology and Travel. MORE

I mentioned in my last posting how technology had both helped and hindered with travelling. One thing which technology has definitely made a difference with when travelling around is communication. This post is a continuation of that theme. Hence the cont. abbreviation in the title. Before, when people, as they say in my countries jargon, go walkabout, they basically disappeared MORE

Here is how business travelers can respond Russian President Vladimir Putin recently signed a law prohibiting the use of VPNs, while Apple pulled VPN apps from the Chinese App Store. MORE

Ever wonder how hackers make money? Or where stolen corporate data is resold? What about cyberweapons and hacking tools? Etay Maor, Executive Security Advisor of IBM Security, shows us the 'Amazon of the Dark Web MORE

One of the last secretive projects in the midwest, "Project Oasis" has come out of stealth as a $200 million data center for global insurance company Travelers Insurance. Site Selection iowa Nebraska project oasis travelers insurance MORE

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Combined cloud services customer base will total more than 50 million users Read More. Cloud Computing Deals Enterprise MORE

Insurtech is gaining momentum, and companies in the sector of all sizes and ages can learn from startups MORE

Some of you may be traveling to VMworld 2017 in Las Vegas next week to sharpen, expand, refresh or share your VMware and data infrastructure tradecraft (skills, experiences, expertise, knowledge). Here is something fun to sharpen your VMware skills while traveling. The post Travel Fun Crossword Puzzle For VMworld 2017 Las Vegas appeared first on StorageIOblog. MORE

Travel software and services company Amadeus has employed a NoSQL database technology to help travellers find answers to complex travel queries MORE

Airline Surf Jet launches its membership-based service in Europe with cloud-based subscription management software at the core of the business MORE

UK intelligence officials were reportedly aware that security researcher Marcus Hutchins risked arrest by travelling to the US to attend a series of cyber security conferences MORE

CIOs can end up spending a lot of their limited budget on travel Image Credit. One of the biggest drains on your budget can be travel expenses. What you need to do is to find a way to keep your travel expenses under control without appearing to come across as an overbearing boss. MORE

The Travelers insurance company has teamed up with Symantec to give policyholders cyber security assessments and consultation in order to help them manage risks. The self-assessment consists of filling out a 25-question survey and getting a written report of how well their network and data protection stacks up. If they want to, they can talk to a consultant who walks them through the results and recommends steps they could take to remediate risks. MORE

Meanwhile, physical safety isn't the only thing that travelers need to worry about -- security experts warn that travelers need to be extremely careful when they access computer networks, as well. MORE ON NETWORK WORLD: 26 crazy and scary things the TSA has found on travelers. MORE

To better vet foreign travelers, the U.S. He said it was “very hard to truly vet” the visa applicants from the seven Muslim-majority countries covered by the Trump administration's travel ban, which is now in legal limbo. might demand that some visa applicants hand over the passwords to their social media accounts, a proposal that’s alarming privacy experts. “If MORE

As you most probably have guessed from my recent posts I am not at home but am instead travelling around on what I feel is a well deserved holiday. I remember in the time the way back machine would have trouble reaching what it used to be like to travel around. But then, we all deserve our holidays don't we :). For starters the cars were far simpler. So much so that if they broke down MORE

Some 93% of tech decision makers said they are worried about the security challenges posed by an increasingly mobile workforce, according to a new report from iPass MORE

iJET CEO Bruce McIndoe explains the best ways to take technological precautions while traveling Open wifi networks can compromise your data, and international customs might lead to a cyber-breach. MORE

The payments provider is running the event alongside BA and the UK local government body responsible for London’s transport system to create new travel services MORE

One of the most annoying things about customers is that some of them are actually intelligent life-forms MORE

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AWS made several announcements at re:invent including many around development tools, compute and data storage services. One of those to keep an eye on is cloud based Aurora relational database service that complement existing RDS tools. Aurora is positioned as an alternative to traditional SQL based transactional databases commonly found in enterprise environments (e.g. SQL Server among others). MORE

If you have a travel website, then we want to be the first to tell you that this is a fantastic choice! Having a travel website is your chance to influence others to start traveling more and to help spark their travel bug to get out of their comfort zone and explore the world. MORE