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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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Former Amazon leader and Army vet launches Seattle wellness startup to support new moms

GeekWire

Foley said they’re working to finalize a hotel partner in the Seattle area to host families, and the retreats should launch in May. There are other businesses offering luxury postpartum retreats at hotels in Asian cities and New York City , as well as night nurses who provide care to mothers and their newborns.

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

CTOvision

Moderator: Mark Ryland , Chief Solutions Architect, World Wide Public Sector Team, Amazon Web Services. Gary Galloway , Deputy Director, Office of Information Assurance, Dept. Session D-1: Managing the Threat Lifecycle. Chuck McGann , Corporate Information Security Officer, USPS.

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What Choice’s CIO sees in a cloud-native approach to sustainability

CIO Business Intelligence

Choice Hotels, the Maryland-based multinational hotel chain, is a $10 billion, 80-year-old hospitality company with about 7,500 hotels in 46 countries. On the cloud journey: Choice Hotels has a big footprint as a technology firm. Sustainability is one of our main drivers,” says Kirkland.

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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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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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