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Atos offers $845M for Bull to boost its security and HPC service offering |
May 26, 2014
French IT services company Atos is seeking to beef up its cybersecurity and high-performance computing offering with a €620 million (US$845 million) bid for servers and services specialist Bull.Atos wants to acquire the company for its proprietary security technologies and also its high-powered server business. Bull had 13 entries in last November’s Top500 supercomputing list, three of them in the top 30.But Atos’s ambitions for the HPC business go beyond simply putting its name on supercomputers: It plans to draw on Bull’s HPC expertise to boost its cloud offerings, where demand for big data services often requires powerful machines to do the processing. It calculates that the combined company would be the second-largest provider of cloud services in Western Europe, after Amazon Web Services and ahead of Microsoft and IBM. Atos reckons it is already the fourth-largest cloud provider in Western Europe with its role in the Canopy joint venture with VMware and EMC.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2159320/atos-offers-845m-for-bull-to-boost-its-security-and-hpc-service-offering.html#tk.rss_all
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