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It Ain’t Just AI: What We Saw At Google Cloud Next

Forrester IT

Google conjured a Christmas-in-July atmosphere by scheduling Google Cloud Next April 9-11, some four months earlier than usual to present its AI offerings ASAP and upstage its rivals. With some 30,000 people jammed into a Las Vegas hotel and convention center, expectations were clearly high — and Google gave them plenty to consider.

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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.

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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. The cloud also helps IHG “drive commercial value for our enterprise,” Turner says, noting that IT pros can innovate in the cloud in months what used to take years.

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What you need to know to accelerate your cloud and data strategy

CIO Business Intelligence

At Choice Hotels , cloud is a tool to help the hospitality giant achieve corporate goals. Kirkland will describe key points on how cloud is enabling business value, including its sustainability initiatives, at CIO’s Future of Cloud & Data Summit , taking place virtually on April 12. said CIO Brian Kirkland.

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How to gain a five star security reputation in hospitality

CIO Business Intelligence

Achieving and sustaining compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is a daunting challenge for hotels because they handle many complex payment business cases. In the hospitality industry, hotels are either corporate or franchise entities. compliance steps. Four recommended steps in the PCI DSS v4.0

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Huawei’s Vision for Intelligent Networking Unveiled at GITEX Global 2023

CIO Business Intelligence

Under the theme of “Intelligent Cloud-Network, Accelerating Industry Intelligence,” Huawei’s data communication session showcased their vision for the future of networking, addressing the need for high-quality, ultra-fast connections and intelligent solutions. Three pivotal challenges have emerged.

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