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Accelerate Sustainable Digital Transformation in the Oil & Gas Industry

CIO

In response, oil and gas majors are making headway in terms of carbon reporting, net-zero targets, and accountability. Many companies have budget or purchasing policy constraints or do not need the latest top-performing equipment. Many have even spun up renewable energy arms. Innovation underpins corporate sustainability efforts.

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SponsorUnited secures $35M investment to build out its database of brand sponsorships

TechCrunch

Frustrated by the sponsorship space’s opaqueness, Bob Lynch, the former VP of corporate partnerships for the Miami Dolphins, in 2017 founded SponsorUnited , a software-as-a-service platform that provides analytics data on the sponsorship industry.

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RapidSOS learned that the best product design is sometimes no product design

TechCrunch

Cash-strapped and highly decentralized, 911 centers already spent their meager budgets on staffing and maintaining decades-old equipment, and they had few resources to improve their systems. The roughly 5,700 public safety answering points (PSAPs) in America weren’t great contenders.

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Albemarle supercharges employee experience with federated automation

CIO

One of the first things Patrick Thompson (pictured) did on becoming chief information and digital transformation officer of specialty chemicals manufacturer Albemarle in 2017 was to introduce an annual survey to gauge employee attitudes toward services IT staff provides. Albemarle is growing fast.

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12 famous ERP disasters, dustups and disappointments

CIO

Protective packaging firm’s profit takes a knock from ERP Packaging firm Ranpak’s SAP migration was far from a disaster — it took less than a year and was delivered on time and to budget — but nevertheless initially led to disappointing results. In 2017 Worth & Co. million in implementation costs. s purposes.

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Serverless and Edge Runtime

Apiumhub

At the end of the day, with sensible cost-capping, budget alerting, and quota limits, having our bills skyrocket will not happen, as most cloud providers do offer these features. Rate limiters and throttling are also approaches that could be useful in avoiding situations like this. If we create an index.go Parsons, R., Minnick, B.

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Storm in the stratosphere: how the cloud will be reshuffled

Erik Bernhardsson

That nets AWS about 6 $500-700k in gross profits, after paying for EC2 operational cost and depreciation. If that customer switches their $1M/year budget to Snowflake, then about $400k 7 goes back to AWS, making AWS about $200k in gross profits. Maybe owning the lowest layer isn't so bad? That seems kind of bad for AWS?

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