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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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Accelerating Industry 4.0 at warp speed: The role of GenAI at the factory edge

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Within seconds, you are traveling faster than the speed of light to reach a Klingon war in the Alpha Quadrant–arriving in minutes versus years. Using this intelligence, GenAI can then automatically populate a global namespace for tags, greatly accelerating time to value. Captain James T.

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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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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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Delta takes off with modernized blend of mainframes and cloud

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Some of those workloads include travel reservation systems and crew scheduling systems — mission-critical, 24-by-7 applications that are never turned off. Delta’s foray into the cloud began in earnest about two years ago as the pandemic brought travel to a virtual halt, Cincera says. Delta is of the same mindset — for now.

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Mapping the progress of Air New Zealand’s digital rebuild

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We’re looking for partners who have IP and know-how they’ve built with a global perspective, so we want to have that balance of local investment but global IP,” he says. On air travel reliance: Air New Zealand is the national flag carrier and it’s something everyone who works at the airline realizes and takes seriously.

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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.