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5 Reasons to Modernize with Cloud: Chemicals Edition

Protera

In recent years, technology advancements like cloud computing, data analytics, and Internet of Things (IoT) devices have created new opportunities for chemical companies but also new pain points as they’ve been required to move out of their comfort zones to digitally transform. 1: Flexible infrastructure. Enter: cloud modernization.

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Startups have about $1 trillion worth of reasons to love the Biden infrastructure plan

TechCrunch

The sweeping infrastructure package put forward today by President Joe Biden comes with a price tag of roughly $2 trillion (and hefty tax hikes) but gives startups and the broader tech industry about $1 trillion worth of reasons to support it. A Biden presidency doesn’t need a Green New Deal to make progress on climate change.

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How adopting sustainability as a service can drive business success and help the planet

CIO

Rather than making huge investments in infrastructure to collect and process data, companies now have the option to get this as a secure, scalable, fully managed service that requires no large capital outlay. You can solve any problem given enough budget. The challenge is to solve the problem in the most efficient way possible.

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Full Steam Ahead: CIO Kopal Raj of WABTEC on staying ‘on-track’ with AI, IoT and sustainability goals

CIO

Initially, I was naïve about the infrastructure space, but was fortunate to have a great mentor. The largest budget proposals were made by railway ministers this year, under the leadership of Ashwini Vaishnaw, the Minister for Railways and Information Technology. I started out as an application developer.

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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. We drove that down to $100,000 a year and reduced our tickets by 90%.”

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NeoCarbon wants industrial cooling towers to join the climate fight

TechCrunch

But the POC was very low budget and more like quantitive. ” While DAC sounds great in theory — using chemicals to literally suck problematic emissions out of the air! . ” While DAC sounds great in theory — using chemicals to literally suck problematic emissions out of the air!

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5 C-suite bridges every IT leader must build

CIO

That’s especially true when functional areas outside IT routinely buy their own technology and hire their own technology professionals, says Irving Tyler, distinguished VP analyst at Gartner, and former CIO of Quaker Chemical and IMS Health. I think, in the near term, CFOs are really cranking down on budgets.

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