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How Southwest’s CIO modernized the airline through turbulent times

CIO Business Intelligence

Taking the helm as CIO is a major transition for any IT leader, but Lauren Woods’ experience at Southwest Airlines stands apart. I ended up leaning on my partners in the business and learning so much from them about how our airline worked and what it was like on the operational side,” she says. “It

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Case in point: taking stock of the CrowdStrike outages

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In a lawsuit the airline filed in October, Delta claimed the faulty update was pushed out in an unsafe manner and CrowdStrike should pay for the losses. Akamai also has other measures in place to reduce the risk of problems third-party software causes, including microsegmentation and identity-based authentication and access controls.

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United Airlines CISO Deneen DeFiore on elevating cyber’s value to the business

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Deneen DeFiore is a Hall of Fame technology executive who currently serves as vice president and chief information security officer at United Airlines, where she leads the cybersecurity and digital risk organization to ensure the company is prepared to prevent, detect, and respond to evolving cyber threats. What are they?

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

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Keeping it at acceptable levels requires an underlying data architecture that can handle the demands of globally deployed real-time applications. Key features of Cassandra’s distributed architecture are specifically tailored for deployment across multiple data centers.

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Why enterprise CIOs need to plan for Microsoft gen AI

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From an authentication perspective, making those data connections is easier when you’re in the same cloud that shares the same identity plan.” Good data hygiene, and information architecture has always been a problem,” Wong says. That’s especially true for Copilot. People need to consider this when building their applications.

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VMworld 2014 Day 2 Keynote

Scott Lowe

Fathi re-emphasizes that VMware’s SDDC vision is an architecture, one built on the “power of AND.” ” vCloud Suite (and vCloud Air) is a manifestation of the SDDC vision/architecture. VMware’s SDDC vision/architecture delivers the power of “AND.” betas of vSphere and VSAN).

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10 emerging innovations that could redefine IT

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Reliable computing Trustworthy systems have always been the goal for developers but lately some high-profile events are convincing some IT managers that better architectures and practices are necessary. Main constituency: Businesses like airlines that can’t live without their technology.

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