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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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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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Predictive CPU isolation of containers at Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

Resource allocation problems can be efficiently solved through a branch of mathematics called combinatorial optimization, used for example for airline scheduling or logistics problems. We formulate the problem as a Mixed Integer Program (MIP). Conclusion If any of this piques your interest, reach out to us!

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

All Things Distributed

For example programming interfaces that developers can use to analyze images, change text into true-to-life language or create chatbots. Decisive is the openness of the layers and the reliable availability of the infrastructure. In the past, AI technologies were so expensive that it was hardly worth it to use them.

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

Dynatrace

Cloud computing has a greater carbon footprint than the airline industry. It was developed with guidance from the Sustainable Digital Infrastructure Alliance ( SDIA ), expanding on formulas from Cloud Carbon Footprint. Some interesting facts: Moving a workload to the cloud can reduce its carbon footprint by up to 96%.

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Real-Time Digital Twins Can Help Expedite Vaccine Distribution

ScaleOut Software

Widely used to track ecommerce shopping carts, financial transactions, airline flights and much more, in-memory computing can quickly store, retrieve, and analyze large volumes of live data. Its two core competencies are speed and scalability.

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Reducing Carbon Emissions On The Web

Smashing Magazine

So, when people first started talking about the Internet having similar carbon emissions to the airline industry , I was a bit skeptical. The only time the Internet was mentioned was as a tool for communicating with one another without the need to chop down more trees, or for working without a commute.

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