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Achieve scalable cyber resiliency in the cloud during an age of exponential data growth

CIO Business Intelligence

IDC predicts that the amount of commercial data in storage will be 12.8 A typical novel contains 1 MB of data and is about 12 mm thick, so 12.8 ZB of data in novelized form would create nearly 400,000 stacks of books, with each stack rising all the way to the moon. ZB by 2026.

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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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Data Center Transformation Will Unfold in Four Steps

Data Center Knowledge

Brocade’s Tom Nadeau, who literally wrote the book on SDN, says data centers are transforming, and OpenStack is just the first step Read More.

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NJVC Cloud Expert Kevin L. Jackson Launches Second Book: GovCloud II: Implementation and Cloud Brokerage Services

Cloud Musings

Jackson , vice president and general manager, cloud services, launched his second book, GovCloud II: Implementation and Cloud Brokerage Services —published by Government Training, Inc. This handbook, geared to IT professionals and senior decision makers in both the public and private sectors, explains how the cloud computing.

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The CIO’s evolving role to address tighter EU sustainability regulations

CIO Business Intelligence

At the same time, data centers, technology churn, and all other forms of digitalization are driving electricity consumption, so the pressure on companies to act to reduce their climate footprint is increasing. That means everything posted in the cloud by third parties and system integrators must also be reported.

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Fountainhead: A Tale of Two Cloud Strategies

Fountainhead

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. A Tale of Two Cloud Strategies. These are the times of the "cloud era" where two technology leaders are struggling to dominate the IT infrastructure, private cloud, and public cloud markets. Monday, March 18, 2013.

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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. This is driving a hybrid approach to cloud.”

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