CIO magazine for the North America region .

This month ’ s cover features an exclusive interview with Tara Mulrooney , VP for Technology and Innovation , Edmonton International Airport .

There ’ s no denying the last year has been a traumatic one for the aviation industry . While there are no guarantees that life will return to normal anytime soon , there is certainly hope on the horizon with the rollout of COVID-19 vaccination programs . the process was completed in one evening with no user and very little overall system impact . For more details turn to p61 .

Elsewhere , we take a look at a report from Nutanix that shows 43 % of financial services companies globally plan to increase their investment in private cloud over the next year . Tapan Mehta , Director , Industries Solution Marketing at Nutanix , says : “ Historically , financial services organizations have explored public cloud offerings when decommissioning legacy data centers .

As our interview illustrates , the industry has demonstrated its willingness to adopt cutting edge technology to overcome some of the obstacles the pandemic has thrown down in front of the aviation sector . We discuss these with Mulrooney and we also talk about more familiar territory such as the cybersecurity issues facing the industry . To read this , and how the airport is gaining greater insights through the use of data , turn to p56 .

We also take an in-depth look at how Texas logistics giant Pilot Thomas Logistics has regained hours of lost productivity and made substantial savings since replacing its existing network attached storage with solutions from Cohesity .

“ However , as the industry continues to place greater interest in data privacy and compliance issues , organizations are turning to the private cloud . This rapid increase in private cloud adoption serves as the basis for a hybrid cloud model , which is expected to become the industry norm over the next few years .” To find out more about what the report has to say turn to p23 .

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I ’ d like to wish you a good month ahead and please enjoy the read !

Michael Hankins , IT Infrastructure Manager , Pilot Thomas Logistics , tells us how Pilot replaced its existing NAS product with Cohesity SmartFiles . Migration of all production file systems to Cohesity for nearly 50 terabytes of data was seamless , he says , and

Mark Bowen Editor

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