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Choice Hotels’ all-in cloud journey to sustainable business value

CIO

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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AWS vs. Azure vs. Google Cloud: Comparing Cloud Platforms

Kaseya

The public cloud infrastructure is heavily based on virtualization technologies to provide efficient, scalable computing power and storage. Cloud adoption also provides businesses with flexibility and scalability by not restricting them to the physical limitations of on-premises servers. Amazon Web Services (AWS) Overview.

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Making Sense of IoT Platforms: AWS vs Azure vs Google vs IBM vs Cisco

Altexsoft

Other most popular activity areas are energy, mobility, smart cities and healthcare. The list of top five fully-fledged solutions in alphabetical order is as follows : Amazon Web Service (AWS) IoT platform , Cisco IoT , Google Cloud IoT , IBM Watson IoT platform , and. AWS IoT Platform: the best place to build smart cities.

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Addressing cloud waste: 4 steps to cloud computing cost optimization

CIO

For example, Arm platforms, like the Graviton3 offered on AWS, are growing in popularity because they are priced attractively, are energy-efficient, and have the flexibility to perform well in the cloud. The math is simple: Fewer cloud computing resources = lower cloud costs.

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7 cloud market trends and how they will impact IT

CIO

The pecking order for cloud infrastructure has been relatively stable, with AWS at around 33% market share, Microsoft Azure second at 22%, and Google Cloud a distant third at 11%. And AWS recently announced Bedrock, a fully managed service that enables enterprise software developers to embed gen AI functionality into their programs.

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Deloitte and SAP team to create the perfect ware for trade classification

CIO

You have a vast amount of parts and numbers to deal with, eating up time and energy. It all adds up to companies spending lots of time and energy staying up to date and compliant. It had to be scalable and deployable for global use, integrate with the company’s SAP Global Trade Services (GTS) environment, and be easy to use.

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Teraco and VMware are Taking a New Approach to Support the Efforts of South Africa’s Cloud Innovators in Their Quest to Achieve Zero Carbon Emissions

CIO

But the requirements, difficult in areas with an already mature sustainable energy infrastructure in place, were overwhelming in sub-Saharan Africa. Specifically, partners would be required to commit that their data centers achieve zero carbon emissions by 2030, an effort that would require the use of 100% renewable energy.

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