How Alaska Airlines Automates

July 18, 2018

Alaska Airlines business units regularly evaluate whether application workloads should be placed into the public cloud or in on-premises data centers. Alaska Airlines evaluates application placement based on a number of factors, including cost, capacity, and automation tooling. Offering an alternative to the public cloud is key to delivering a successful on-premises data center. In today’s era of the software-defined data center, engineers must learn to build infrastructure that is as dynamic and flexible as the public cloud.

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