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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. I am in the business of hospitality.

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

Cloud Musings

2015 PREDICTION TIME!! 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!

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Koch CTO teams up to get cloud networking right

CIO Business Intelligence

Moreover, Koch itself is in the middle of a digital transformation that adds cloud networking to the mix, further complicating the challenge. Cloud deployments typically come in the form of multiple accounts, including multiple LAN segments that need to be connected. It’s more complicated than standard networking, Hoag says.

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Netflix Closed Their Last Data Center – Should You Do The Same?

The Accidental Successful CIO

Netflix now runs everything in the cloud, should you be doing this? The Netflix announcement back in August of 2015 wasn’t a very big deal. The company sent an email out that announced that in a month they planned on shutting down their very last operational data center. How Netflix Moved To The Cloud.

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Elon Musk’s SpaceX inks satellite connectivity deal with Google Cloud

The Verge

Google said on Thursday that it signed a deal with Elon Musk’s SpaceX to use the space company’s growing satellite internet service, Starlink, with its cloud unit. The Google-SpaceX deal marks another competitive win for Google in its own rivalry with Amazon’s behemoth cloud services unit, Amazon Web Services.

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Oracle OpenWorld 2015: Ellison Disses IBM, SAP as ‘Nowhere in the Cloud’

Data Center Knowledge

Says Oracle competes with Amazon Web Services in the cloud and "never sees IBM" Read More.

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AWS Re:Invent Recap – Hybrid Cloud is Real. Even Amazon Says So.

The Investing Edge

These were received by a mix of cheers and panic attacks from their competitors and hundreds of startups vying for a piece of the cloud and infrastructure market. AWS has routinely evangelized the public cloud, touting customer stories such as Netflix and Spotify who are 100% on public cloud. Turns out the hybrid cloud is real.

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