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– James Clent , Chief Information Officer , Remington Hotels and Ashford Hospitality

found that everything was in-house , and running on internal servers , but without the support needed for a 24 / 7 operation . I said it makes no sense to try to build a world class data center environment within Remington Hotels - it would require huge investment in manpower and training , and probably co-location data centers here in Dallas with all sorts of backup equipment in there . I went to the leadership and explained what I thought were differentiators and which necessary but commodity procedures . They agreed , so then I investigated how we get to an architecture and a strategy that drives us forward into integration ? Integration is something I believe in – data , and making it work for us , is my future !” Rationalizing the infrastructure was the first , and in some ways the

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