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8 major IT disasters of 2024

CIO

Windows systems at hospitals, airline flight reservation centers, emergency response centers, and public transportation services were among those affected by the outage. Meanwhile, Delta Airlines filed a $500 million lawsuit against CrowdStrike and Microsoft and reconsidered its use of Microsoft products.

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

CIO

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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ESG reporting: Carbon in the cloud

CIO

Carbon emissions for datacenters exceed the airline industry Most people do not understand complex global datacenters. However, most people understand, and frequently use, airlines. of global carbon emissions, exceeds carbon produced by the airline industry globally.

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SmarterTravel sheds HopJump name, begins a new journey with $9.5M round

TechCrunch

SmarterTravel has 7 million email newsletter subscribers and uses proprietary artificial intelligence fixes to give customers travel information and discounts. The company writes articles on every facet of travel to inform customers, especially now with airlines, hotels and countries placing certain restrictions on travel.

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Father and son duo take on global logistics with Optimal Dynamics’ sequential decision AI platform

TechCrunch

Like “innovation,” machine learning and artificial intelligence are commonplace terms that provide very little context for what they actually signify. A classic problem is how to optimize an airline’s schedule to maximize profit.

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Private cloud makes its comeback, thanks to AI

CIO

Artificial Intelligence, Hybrid Cloud, Private Cloud Controlling escalating cloud and AI costs and preventing data leakage are the top reasons why enterprises are eying hybrid infrastructure as their target AI solution. “We We want to keep a lot of options open for the future,” Semple says.

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AI Gobbled A Record Share Of Startup Funding This Year

Crunchbase News

But the comparison would be far starker, of course, were it not for artificial intelligence. Venture funding today is way down from the record heights reached three years ago. So far this year, 35% of U.S. startup investment has gone to AI-related companies, per Crunchbase data.