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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. It is the brains of everything — our core system.

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IT resiliency: Running two different hypervisors

CIO Business Intelligence

Some delayed decisions by relying on existing VMware licenses, while others explored alternatives or ran redundancies to compare options. operator of 28 hotel and casino properties across the US, was negotiating a fresh enterprise agreement with VMware prior to its acquisition, reported The Register.

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Broadcom distrust drives sales for VMware competition

Network World

Discontent over VMware licensing changes and shifts to the partner program has sent customers looking elsewhere, and at least two competitors say they are benefiting from the discord in the form of increased sales.

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A mom and son with tech roots at the University of Washington launch trip-mapping startup

GeekWire

UW CoMotion Labs Photo) When I was searching for a hotel earlier this year for a volleyball tournament, I could easily find information on lodging prices, ratings and availability. Ken Aragon , Viata’s co-founder and CEO, said this is an essential but harder to research parameter for making a hotel choice. ” Aragon said.

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Part apartment, part hotel, Sonder moves into Seattle with its tech-enabled hospitality option

GeekWire

The San Francisco-based startup, which is part hotel and part apartment-style vacation rental, is now offering units at Solis , a modern development located at 1300 E. “Unlike peer-to-peer homeshare platforms, Sonder leases, licenses and manages every space from booking to checkout,” she added. Sonder Photo).

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The Problem With Facial Recognition Systems

The Accidental Successful CIO

The Challenges Of Facial Recognition Systems Facial-recognition systems have been long touted as a quick and dependable way to identify everyone from employees to hotel guests. They are also using it to get through high-security entrances at hotels, business centers or hospitals. However, they are now in the crosshairs of the bad guys.

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7 steps to prepare your organisation for changes to Australia’s privacy legislation

CIO Business Intelligence

Delete old data I lived in Hong Kong 2008-2013 and one of my most pleasurable weekends was a trip to see an incredible band at the MGM hotel in Macau. That company I helped had a significant reduction in their CDP licensing cost post clean-up. Inform customers when you collect that data, and what you will use it for.

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