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共享IT服务回潮(国外英语资料) The worlds top hotel reservation system has invested almost billions of dollars in their own rooms, in order to maintain their own operations, general manager of each hotel that these systems for them in the calculation of cost and utilization to ensure the competitiveness of the room. But the deal looks like a rule. Hotel managers believe that it is possible to save the system investment of room reservations through the industrys shared IT system, which is tempting enough to bring together the hotels CIO. The next generation of hotel technology (HTNG) is an international organization composed of technology, industry and the hotel manager in the industry, including members of Starwood Hotels and resorts, Hyatt, Marriott International and intercontinental hotels group. Over the past 6 months, members of the board have been actively discussing areas where members can share services, such as shared asset management systems, booking systems and networks. Sharing IT services among industry competitors is not a new concept, but as the advent of cloud computing, the door to collaboration is opening slowly. Why share? Since the economic downturn last year, many corporate executives are beginning to consider adopting unconventional methods to cut costs. The sharing of IT services among companies naturally attracts everyones interest. Imagine a big investment bank investing hundreds of thousands of dollars in a bull market to support other businesses on the traditional server capacity. How do banks handle excess capacity, says Howard Rubin, a professor at Hunter Institute of Technology in New York City University By opening leases to other companies, the investment banks can also get an extra income to reduce their IT costs and invest more in profitable IT and business projects. Shared IT services have been well applied in academic and non-governmental organizations. In 2001, the organization for (NetHope) was founded by the childrens aid society and CISCO.