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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. And his team can do this more sustainably, another “benefit that’s important to us,” Kirkland says. “If

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9 ways IT leaders can impact sustainability initiatives

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Companies across industries are committing to maximizing sustainability within their operations — and IT is at the heart of most of these efforts. In its Worldwide Sustainability/ESG 2023 Predictions , analyst firm IDC sees digital and sustainability transformations converging. Now is no time for sideline sitting, however.

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

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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. Sustainability is one of our main drivers,” says Kirkland. On the cloud journey: Choice Hotels has a big footprint as a technology firm.

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Rackspace’s CTO takes a broad view of sustainability

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Srini Koushik has been passionate about the environment for 35 years and now, as a board member of the nonprofit SustainableIT.org and CTO of cloud services provider Rackspace Technology, he wants to help enterprises achieve sustainability in the cloud.

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How Palladium targets tech to better serve the business

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The result was what is now the Palladium Hotel Group, a hotel chain with 10 different brands spread across Spain, Italy, Mexico, Brazil, Jamaica, and the Dominican Republic. CIO, Digital Transformation, IT Leadership, Travel and Hospitality Industry

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

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At Choice Hotels , cloud is a tool to help the hospitality giant achieve corporate goals. That can include making progress on immediate objectives, such as environmental sustainability, while keeping an eye on trendy topics such as the metaverse and ChatGPT. Cloud Management, Hybrid Cloud, IT Leadership, IT Strategy

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Loosening the Reins: Why It’s Important To Pass the Leadership Torch

Terry Starbucker

I’d been at my leadership role for 6 years. If the greatness I aspired to was really going to be sustained for a long period of time with the same level of enthusiasm, another person (or persons) needed to put a new and different take on it. The experience also was fitting given my state of mind at that time back in 2009.