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Atos’s Journey: Can a Corporate Roll Up Maintain its Impressive Growth?

Hurwitz & Associates

In fact, since 2002 the company has acquired 17 companies – many within the last four years. The company focuses on telecommunications, IT consulting services and solutions, data management, customer relationship management and service management. All of these elements are designed to sit on top of a layer of cybersecurity.

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How The Cloud Made ‘Data-Driven Culture’ Possible | Part 1

BizAcuity

2002: Microsoft launches the.NET initiative. 2018: IoT and edge computing open up new opportunities for organizations. Microsoft starts to offer Azure IoT Central and IoT Edge. Google announces Cloud IoT. Edge computing is the process of decentralizing computer services and shifting them closer to the data source.

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Public cloud vs. private cloud vs. hybrid cloud: What’s the difference?

IBM Big Data Hub

Internet companies like Amazon led the charge with the introduction of Amazon Web Services (AWS) in 2002, which offered businesses cloud-based storage and computing services, and the launch of Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) in 2006, which allowed users to rent virtual computers to run their own applications.