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Choice Hotels’ all-in cloud journey to sustainable business value

CIO Business Intelligence

Choice Hotels International’s early and big bet on the cloud has allowed it to glean the many benefits of its digital transformation and devote more energies to a key corporate value — sustainability, its CIO maintains. It also helped reduce energy consumption and costs.

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IHG maximizes hospitality with multicloud

CIO Business Intelligence

For IHG Hotels and Resorts, the cloud provides just the right accommodation for business success. The cloud also helps IHG “drive commercial value for our enterprise,” Turner says, noting that IT pros can innovate in the cloud in months what used to take years.

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Travel Safe: Cybersecurity Tips for Your Next Vacation

SecureWorld News

Check your settings Check the privacy and security settings on web services and apps. You can back up your data on the cloud, on an external device like a hard drive or, preferably, both. If you are staying in a hotel, lock them in a safe if possible. Set limits on how and with whom you share information.

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9 ways IT leaders can impact sustainability initiatives

CIO Business Intelligence

Many CIOs don’t know where to start,” says Brian Kirkland, CIO at Choice Hotels and founding board member for SustainableIT.org, a nonprofit launched to help create frameworks and standards around sustainability. Maximize the cloud IT has a significant impact on greenhouse gas emissions. At Vuori, everything is in the cloud.

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What Choice’s CIO sees in a cloud-native approach to sustainability

CIO Business Intelligence

Choice Hotels, the Maryland-based multinational hotel chain, is a $10 billion, 80-year-old hospitality company with about 7,500 hotels in 46 countries. Usually when a company looks to go to the cloud, it wants to take advantage of the tech, get the ability to scale on demand, and manage cost differently.

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Cloud, Mobile, Social and Cyber: 2015 Predictions That Will Rock The World (AGAIN!)

Cloud Musings

The worlds of cloud, mobile, social and cyber will continue expanding, permuting and recombining. Their individual effect on society and commerce will become moot as these technological capabilities merge to deliver products and services straight out of Star Trek! Rise of the "Cloud System Integrator" (a.k.a.

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Expanding the Cloud – Introducing the AWS EU (Frankfurt) Region

All Things Distributed

Today, Amazon Web Services is expanding its worldwide coverage with the launch of a new AWS region in Frankfurt, Germany. This is our 11th infrastructure region and was built to support the strong demand we are seeing in Europe and to give our customers the option to run infrastructure located in Germany.

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