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Why a 35-year-old travel IT company decided to slash its technical debt

TechCrunch

Public travel systems provider Amadeus opened for business way back in 1987 when four airlines wanted to offer a centralized booking system. Today, the company facilitates booking and inventory management for 216 airlines, as well as hotels, trains, airports, online travel companies and even corporations.

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Teeny EV startup Arcimoto hooks up with defense contractor

TechCrunch

In addition to all that, Arcimoto said in a statement that it will sell “electrical systems architecture and energy storage systems” to Matbock, which makes “hybrid-electric tactical vehicles.”

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The CIO’s Hybrid Cloud Journey Incorporates Extensive Systems Thinking

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Heading down the path of systems thinking for the hybrid cloud is the equivalent of taking the road less traveled in the storage industry. This is because of a narrow way of thinking that is centered on a storage array mentality. Storage is a critical part of the overall corporate cloud strategy.

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Zesty lands $75M for tech that adjusts cloud usage to save money

TechCrunch

“DevOps engineers … face limitations such as discount program commitments and preset storage volume capacity, CPU and RAM, all of which cannot be continuously adjusted to suit changing demand,” Melamedov said in an email interview. He briefly worked together with Baikov at big data firm Feedvisor. Image Credits: Zesty.

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Appboxo gets $1.1 million seed to build a mini-app ecosystem for all developers

TechCrunch

Mini-apps, or lightweight apps designed for integration into host apps, allow smartphone users to access several services through one app, saving them data and storage space. Rayev told TechCrunch that the two initially wanted to build an all-in-one travel app, with different travel-related services integrated into one platform.

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CIOs rethink all-in cloud strategies

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Like many complex businesses, we are an evolving hybrid model that maintains compute and storage capabilities in the public cloud, on-prem, with our co-location partner, and industry cloud partners,” Shields adds. This refinement of thinking about the cloud comes as hefty AI costs loom on the horizon. “I

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Consolidate Storage to Improve Availability and Lower Costs

Infinidat

Consolidate Storage to Improve Availability and Lower Costs. Storage consolidation simplifies infrastructure topologies, by reducing the number of arrays being managed and opportunities for misconfigurations both of which contribute to downtime budgets. Drew Schlussel. Wed, 10/30/2019 - 5:20pm. a lack of agility. availability concerns.

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