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Outbound Aerospace achieves its first test flight and attracts more funding for airplane ambitions

GeekWire

. “Over the last month, everything came together, and we went out there and got the plane up in the air, and proved that it flies,” said Jake Armenta, the former Boeing engineer who serves as Outbound’s chief technology officer and co-founder. “So, it’s been a really exciting month or two.”

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Lufthansa’s digital future takes flight with ‘Digital Hangar’

CIO Business Intelligence

Each Hangar houses agile coaches, business analysts, data and analytics specialists, product owners, Scrum masters, software engineers, and user interface designers — all with one mission: to elevate the airlines’ digital customer experience before, during, and after the flight. Experience is not only the cherry on the cake.”

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New CIO appointments in India, 2022

CIO Business Intelligence

He has assisted the top management in planning IT strategies and leveraging technologies for rationalizing manpower, enhancing organizational productivity, and improving the efficiency of operations. Amit Goel joins Blox as CTO. Real estate buying platform Blox has appointed Amit Goel as its chief technology officer, based in Mumbai.

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Case in point: taking stock of the CrowdStrike outages

CIO Business Intelligence

It was an interesting case study of global cyber impact, says Charles Clancy, CTO at Mitre. 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.

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All United Airlines flights in US grounded: Computer “glitch” cited as cause

CTOvision

For more on the outage see: All United Airlines flights in US grounded due to computer system glitch . The post All United Airlines flights in US grounded: Computer “glitch” cited as cause appeared first on CTOvision.com. If you want a system to be reliable and not go down you need to engineer it to work that way.

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Global Connected Aircraft Summit: Airlines, operators, integrators, and technology providers

CTOvision

The Global Connected Aircraft Summit (7-9 June 2017) provides airlines, operators, integrators, and technology vendors with a venue for advancing the state of the entire aviation community. Bob Gourley.

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CrowdStrike incident has CIOs rethinking their cloud strategies

CIO Business Intelligence

The CrowdStrike incident affected computers running Microsoft Windows across various sectors, including airlines, banks, retailers, brokerage houses, media companies, and railways. It is said to be one of the worst cybersecurity events considering the magnitude of the impact.

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