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

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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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9 ways IT leaders can impact sustainability initiatives

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Many CIOs don’t know where to start,” says Brian Kirkland, CIO at Choice Hotels and founding board member for SustainableIT.org, a nonprofit launched to help create frameworks and standards around sustainability. You need a leadership team that is supportive, and a board that will back them up. At Vuori, everything is in the cloud.

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Rackspace’s CTO takes a broad view of sustainability

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In April 2023, Koushik received one of the organization’s SustainableIT Impact Awards for environmental impact, alongside Choice Hotels’ CIO Brian Kirkland and others. CIOs have an opportunity to take the leadership position on sustainability because organizations are getting more heavily dependent on technology,” he says.

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50 CISOs to watch

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These individuals have demonstrated outstanding leadership and are transforming industries worldwide with their technical capabilities, interpersonal skills, and security vision and execution. Jason Stead , CISO, Choice Hotels International. Join us in congratulating them. Geoff Kershner , Chief Security Officer, Medallia.

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How to guarantee your time is well spent at AWS re:Inforce

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and your hotel/travel accommodations are booked. The keynotes, labs, breakout content, and leadership sessions begin. . Leadership sessions are like mini keynotes, where you’ll hear updates and unique perspectives from AWS leaders. Before you go. Make sure you’re registered for the conference (can’t hurt to double check!)

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