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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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IHG maximizes hospitality with multicloud

CIO Business Intelligence

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.

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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. If you are staying in a hotel, lock them in a safe if possible. If you share computers, don't share information Avoid public computers in hotel lobbies and internet cafes, especially for making online purchases or accessing your accounts.

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Open source algorithm helps spot social media shams

Network World

+ “Given the rise in popularity of social networks and other web services in recent years, fraudsters have strong incentives to manipulate these services. Yelp, Amazon and TripAdvisor fake reviews are also available for sale, misleading consumers about restaurants, hotels, and other services and products.

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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. And the opportunities for tech-enabled sustainability solutions are wide ranging. Now is no time for sideline sitting, however.

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CIOs are (still) closer than ever to their dream data lakehouse

CIO Business Intelligence

“I do think the acquisition has been a bit of a distraction, but that’s probably true anytime that kind of money starts moving around,” David Nalley, director of open-source strategy and marketing at Amazon Web Services, told me. And in theory, at least, it all happens without vendor lock-in.

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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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