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CIOs to spend ambitiously on AI in 2025 — and beyond

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Global professional services firm Marsh McLennan has roughly 40 gen AI applications in production , and CIO Paul Beswick expects the number to soar as demonstrated efficiencies and profit-making innovations sell the C-suite. However, the higher value use cases involve new business models, which require widespread organizational change.”

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ESG reporting: Carbon in the cloud

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Carbon emissions for datacenters exceed the airline industry Most people do not understand complex global datacenters. An MIT report determined that the carbon footprint for all datacenters globally, about 0.3% of global carbon emissions, exceeds carbon produced by the airline industry globally.

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

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Kirkland, a founding member of SustainabilityIT.org, an organization to drive global sustainability through technology leadership, says Choice was the first hospitality company to make a strategic commitment to developing a cloud-native and sustainable platform on AWS. Cloud Computing, Green IT, Travel and Hospitality Industry.

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IT to thank for most of Radisson Hotel Group’s business initiatives

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With stints at Procter & Gamble, HPE and DHL, Jaime González-Peralta landed at Radisson Hotel Group four years ago as CIO for EMEA and then became global CIO in April 2020 — a particularly complex moment due to the paralysis that the pandemic inflicted on the world of travel.

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CIOs recalibrate multicloud strategies as challenges remain

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CIO Tom Peck says wholesale food distributor Sysco is “absolutely a multicloud enterprise” and sees the advantages and disadvantages of multicloud clearly. “On “This makes a much heavier lift, though, for CIOs and their teams.” On the good, you get the benefits that may be unique to each provider and can price shop to some degree,” he says.

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IHG maximizes hospitality with multicloud

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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. Digital Transformation, Multi Cloud, Travel and Hospitality Industry

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5 pillars of a cloud-conscious culture

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Most CIOs recognize the advantages of cloud, the global reach it provides, and the ease with which services can be scaled up and back down again. It enables us to free our people so they can innovate and create lasting competitive advantage.” But recognizing cloud advantages doesn’t always mean a smooth transition from on-prem.