CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 16, 2023

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. Choice closed one data center last year and plans to close its second data center in 2023.

Hotels 362

Hotels Cloud Data Center Energy 362

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

For IHG Hotels and Resorts, the cloud provides just the right accommodation for business success. Moreover, IHG’s cloud backbone enables it to take advantage of emerging SaaS offerings, such as Speakeasy AI conversational chatbots, and deliver its own IHG Voice Cloud AI service to help guests and reception desk clerks at hundreds of hotels.

Hotels 331

Hotels Cloud Architecture Travel 331

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 4, 2023

As such, CIOs are taking center stage in sustainability efforts , working closely with business partners on enterprise sustainability initiatives, while tackling the carbon footprint of IT itself —all new territory with few established best practices, frameworks, or standards. Let them do the job of efficiently running data centers.”

Nonprofit 328

Nonprofit Data Center Cloud Hotels 328

Cloud Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Linux Containers take center stage - Linux Containers of all forms, will mature and become interoperability building blocks of the cloud computing world. The Microsoft-IBM Cloud Computing Alliance will be model as other IT behemoths partner to take down Amazon Web Services.

Social 169

Social Mobile Cloud Data Center 169

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 24, 2023

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. On the cloud journey: Choice Hotels has a big footprint as a technology firm. Sustainability is one of our main drivers,” says Kirkland.

Cloud 130

Cloud Hotels Energy Web Services 130

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

In my many conversations with customers, and with the media, I encountered surprise and excitement about the extent that European enterprises have already been using the Amazon Web Services for some time.

Enterprise 100

Enterprise Enterprise Cloud Banking 100

CTOvision

DECEMBER 11, 2013

Track B: Managing Your Data Center. Moderator: Mark Ryland , Chief Solutions Architect, World Wide Public Sector Team, Amazon Web Services. Track B: Managing Your Data Center. . – 10:25 a.m. Morning Networking Break in the TechXpo. – 11:25 a.m. Breakout Session 1. Session A-1: Is BYOD dead?

Symantec 261

Symantec Hotels Government Fractional CTO 261