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IT to thank for most of Radisson Hotel Group’s business initiatives

CIO Business Intelligence

With stints at Procter & Gamble, HPE and DHL, Jaime González-Peralta landed at Radisson Hotel Group four years ago as CIO for EMEA and then became global CIO in April 2020 — a particularly complex moment due to the paralysis that the pandemic inflicted on the world of travel. How many people, then, make up Radisson’s IT area worldwide?

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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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Symantec Government Symposium 11 March 2014 at the Renaissance Hotel Washington DC

CTOvision

Track B: Managing Your Data Center. Track C: Creating an Agile Enterprise. Track B: Managing Your Data Center. Track C: Creating an Agile Enterprise. Morning Networking Break in the TechXpo. – 11:25 a.m. Breakout Session 1. Legend: Track A: Enabling Mobile Government. Session A-1: Is BYOD dead?

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What legacy tech teaches IT leaders about projects that last

CIO Business Intelligence

I’ve had a number of servers fail in my data centers, and then there’s our mainframe, running code that was written over 30 years ago,” he said. “It It processes hundreds of thousands of revenue-producing hotel reservations that come in each day. A CIO acquaintance of mine at a large hospitality chain gives a practical example.

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

Cloud Musings

They will insist on the use of more agile commodity IT services in the development of their custom systems of record. Privacy will be more important than security - Expect the national debate about data privacy to escalate into a new national law that defines privacy and provides cloud users new protections from data brokers.

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Dutch Enterprises and The Cloud

All Things Distributed

But it is not just Dutch entrepreneurs who build their business in the cloud, also traditional Dutch enterprises are moving to the cloud to improve their agility and cost-effectiveness. In addition to its goal of reducing energy costs, Shell needed to be more agile in deploying IT services and planning for user demand.

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OpenStack Summit 2015 Day 1 Keynote

Scott Lowe

Jonathan takes a few minutes to welcome the attendees, thank the conference sponsors, and go over some logistics (different hotels, meals, getting help, etc.). OpenStack helped them deal with this traffic spike, enabling Yahoo Japan to “abstract the data center” and leverage the same APIs regardless of the underlying hypervisor(s).