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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. At a recent global industry analyst meeting, Atos shared its positioning strategy that it calls the Digital Transformation Factory. It is clear that the large enterprise is the target for Atos’s go to market. Reliance on partnerships.

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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.