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Atos may sell national security activities to French government

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billion) for the part of its business handling contracts vital to national security, but stops short of full nationalization of the company. billion for its entire big data and security division. billion revenue in 2023. That confidence was clearly lacking in Q1 of 2024, with revenue down 2.6%

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Airbus abandons possible acquisition of Atos data division

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Airbus, a potential acquirer of the IT services company’s big data and security business, has walked away from the deal after completing its “due diligence” investigation. Airbus already has a cybersecurity business of its own, and manages vast quantities of data generated by its earth observation satellites.

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Harbr raises $38.5M to help enterprises exchange and share big data troves securely

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Today, a new London startup called Harbr , which has built a secure platform to enable big data exchange, is announcing a big round of funding to tap into that demand. The idea is to make that data ready and secure for enterprise data exchange, either with other parts of your own large organization, or with third parties.

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Everstream, which applies big data to supply chain management, raises $50M

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Just short of a year after raising $24 million from backers including DHL, Everstream Analytics, a company that provides predictive insights for physical supply chains, has secured a fresh round of funding. Gerdeman claims that what helped Everstream stay ahead of the competition was its “big data” approach.

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Tonic is betting that synthetic data is the new big data to solve scalability and security

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Big data is a sham. There is just one problem with big data though: it’s honking huge. Processing petabytes of data to generate business insights is expensive and time consuming. Processing petabytes of data to generate business insights is expensive and time consuming. What should a company do?

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Huawei Cloud named leader in emerging Asia-Pacific hybrid cloud market

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Frost & Sullivan, a global research and consulting firm, recently released the Emerging Asia-Pacific Hybrid Cloud Market Report 2022 report. In this report, Huawei Cloud was named a “Leader” and positioned ahead of all other providers in terms of market performance, technical innovation, and customer services.

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Atos receives four offers of help

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billion (€1 billion) in return for 100% ownership of the parts of the company’s Big Data and Security (BDS) division in which France has a sovereign interest. Cybersecurity will be an integral part of the managed services-to-infrastructure continuum,” it said in its offer letter.