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Universal Hydrogen raises $20.5M Series A to help launch hydrogen aviation

TechCrunch

million Series A round by Universal Hydrogen , a Los Angeles-based startup aiming to develop hydrogen storage solutions and conversion kits for commercial aircraft. The race to decarbonize aviation got a boost this Earth Day with the announcement of a $20.5 What’s fueling hydrogen tech? “We

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Debt versus equity: When do non-traditional funding strategies make sense?

TechCrunch

David Friend is a serial entrepreneur, six-time founder, and the current co-founder and CEO of cloud storage company, Wasabi Technologies. Discount airlines, cell phones (not smartphones) and integrated circuits are good examples of the “faster, cheaper, simpler” variety, because they simply displaced familiar incumbents. David Friend.

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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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Private cloud makes its comeback, thanks to AI

CIO

Nearly a third (31%) of respondents said they are building internal private clouds using hybrid cloud management solutions such as software-defined storage and API-consistent hardware to make the private cloud more like public cloud, Forrester adds. billion in 2024, and more than double by 2027.

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Heirloom Secures $150M Amid Busy Year For Carbon Capture Funding

Crunchbase News

Heirloom’s financing comes amid a boom period for investment around carbon capture, storage and transformation, which is increasingly seen as a vital part of efforts to move us closer to net zero. In the first three quarters of this year, startups with business models tied to carbon capture, storage and transformation closed on close to $1.2

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Bliki: TeamTopologies

Martin Fowler

A large organization will have many such teams, and while they have different business capabilities to support, they have common needs such as data storage, network communications, and observability. I would then say that that the Team Topologies model is a meta-model to my airline model.

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12 most popular AI use cases in the enterprise today

CIO

Airbnb is one company using AI to optimize pricing on AWS, utilizing AI to manage capacity, to build custom cost and usage data tools, and to optimize storage and computing capacity. Companies such as Walmart, Starbucks, Costco, Delta Airlines, Target, and many more use this technology to identify the best schedule for the company’s needs.