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Would Uber be so intriguing if we thought of it as the next American Airlines?

The Agile Manager

The fleet owners - firms like International Lease Finance - are asset-heavy companies that buy and insure aircraft from manufacturers (Boeing, Bombardier, Airbus) and lease them to airlines who operate them to deliver people and parcels. It will be no less difficult to start an auto operating business). Cars are vanity purchases.

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Although a wide range, it suggests that airlines and hotels will have to appeal to leisure travelers to fill seats and beds. Oracle provides the cloud infrastructure that Zoom operates on. They may offer aggressive tax incentives to encourage new business formation or expansion as well as commercial property development.

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As-Salaam-Alaikum: The cloud arrives in the Middle East!

All Things Distributed

Today, I am excited to announce plans for Amazon Web Services (AWS) to bring an infrastructure Region to the Middle East! This move is another milestone in our global expansion and mission to bring flexible, scalable, and secure cloud computing infrastructure to organizations around the world.

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AI for everyone - How companies can benefit from the advance of machine learning

All Things Distributed

Personally, I think – and this is clearly linked to the rise of AI and ML – that there has never been a better time than today to develop smart applications and use them. For example programming interfaces that developers can use to analyze images, change text into true-to-life language or create chatbots. That is understandable.

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IT carbon footprint: Dynatrace Carbon Impact and Optimization app helps organizations measure cloud computing carbon footprint

Dynatrace

The cloud now has a greater carbon footprint than the airline industry,” wrote anthropologist Steven Gonzalez Monserrate in a 2022 article from MIT. “A As we onboard more customers, the platform requires more infrastructure, leading to increased carbon emissions.  That’s why we developed Carbon Impact.

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From observability to sustainability: Reduce your IT carbon footprint with Dynatrace Carbon Impact

Dynatrace

Globally, the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB), established at the UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, has developed requirements for climate-related disclosure. Cloud computing has a greater carbon footprint than the airline industry. Average cloud server idle time exceeds 70%.

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Välkommen till Stockholm – An AWS Region is coming to the Nordics

All Things Distributed

The new region will give Nordic-based businesses, government organisations, non-profits, and global companies with customers in the Nordics, the ability to leverage the AWS technology infrastructure from data centers in Sweden. They migrated their IT infrastructure, including mission-critical payments platforms, to AWS in just six weeks.

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