SYSTEMS – Product news, launches and more – May 2013

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Kempinski partners with Nor1 for upsell capability

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How an airport took a deep breath and axed 200 servers

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Cloud computing and a bring your own device (BYOD) strategy aren’t technology approaches typically associated with running an airport’s information-technology operations.

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Back to school with Big Data – how the web defines it

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Is Big Data just a large collection of data sets, or is it a wider level a process to provide a better understanding and take advantage of products or customers?

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Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) – growing, but leagues behind packaged tools [INFOGRAPHIC]

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Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) was probably the Big Data of the early-2000s – at term bounded about to describe a concept which actually had its roots going back decades.

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The cloud and mobile – an unhappy marriage despite early promise of love and mutual harmony

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The so-called cloud and mobile should be a shining example of a marriage made in heaven, blessed by the gods and beloved by all.

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A tech reality: If you don’t like change, you’re going to like irrelevance even less

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Many companies and even whole industries have been blind-sided by new entrants who are empowered by technology and changing consumer behavior rather than old business models and processes.

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There is a lot more to The Cloud than just a fancy data center

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I was catching up on RSS today and read a piece by Alex Bainbridge on Tnooz about the Top Eight Travel Industry Battles.

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Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud hiccup takes down Airbnb, Foursquare, and other startups for hours

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Many digital companies, including travel startups like Airbnb and Foursquare have been knocked offline for hours during the business day today.

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How a storm in the cloud brought Room 77 and other websites back down to earth

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Last week, hotel booking service Room 77 was knocked offline in a mammoth cloud-computing outage that also crashed the websites of dozens of companies.

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HP storms ahead with airline cloud services as Interjet trains pilots

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Airline reservations systems and IT providers are hustling to bring everything from PCI compliance to printing at the airport into the cloud and, along those lines, HP Enterprise Services introduced HP Converged Cloud Services for Airlines.

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