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5 questions CIOs must ask after Southwest Airlines’ failure

CIO

The last thing any CIO wants is to experience catastrophic operational issues during a peak season, but that’s exactly what executives at Southwest Airlines faced last week. 19-28 far exceeded any other airlines’ operational impacts. Even before the blizzard hit, Southwest Airlines CEO Bob Jordan acknowledged on Nov.

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Averting turbulence in the air

CIO

The diversification of payment methods and gradual increase in the volume of online transactions have cast a spotlight on the need for payment security compliance within the airline industry. With the new, recently onboarded Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) v4.0, she wonders. Well not exactly.

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Delta takes off with modernized blend of mainframes and cloud

CIO

When it comes to IT, Delta Airlines is climbing higher into the clouds even as it keeps its footing on solid ground. In partnership with AWS, the airlines started migrating many front-end applications and distributed applications that “marry” themselves well to the cloud while retaining traditional back-end workloads on the mainframe. “The

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The future of European cybersecurity is autonomous

CIO

In a stark warning, Tanium’s Cybersecurity in Europe report spells out the current threat level in no uncertain terms. “[Across Europe] we are seeing breaches in all industries, from airlines to retail, from banking to manufacturing. And the pace of attacks is increasing.”

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Stand By For Reporting From the Intelligence and National Security Summit 18-19 Sep 2014 #Intelligence2014

CTOvision

For the next two days in DC over 1000 key leaders from the national security community will be converging in a dynamic examination of intelligence and national security issues at the Intelligence and National Security Summit. National Security Agency. Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy Homeland Security Advisor.

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B2B Travel Platform For Corporate Travel Management

Altexsoft

With airlines such as United and American shifting content away from legacy Global Distribution System (GDS) channels towards their own platforms and NDC-enabled channels, businesses relying on traditional GDS systems face a challenge. Corporate travel management comes with its unique set of needs and challenges. Legacy GDS limitations.

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Proving that chatbots are alive and kicking, Quiq raises $25M

TechCrunch

Quiq claims that revenue doubled in the past year as the company’s customer base grew to over 200 brands, including Overstock, Spirit Airlines, and Brinks Home Security. . Even if a company increases its budget, in today’s tight labor market, it’s impossible to find people to do all the work,” Myer said.

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