Airbus pulls up hard, no longer buying 29.9% stake in Atos-owned Evidian Under pressure from activist investor, top brass agree to plot new course Systems30 Mar 2023 | 2
DXC Technology says takeover talks terminated Admirer - said to be Baring Equity Asia - couldn't raise funds in current climate On-Prem07 Mar 2023 | 2
Activist investor tells Airbus to end Atos Evidian talks now TCI Fund says buying stake in tech biz would be 'extremely inefficient use of shareholder funds' On-Prem21 Feb 2023 | 14
Airbus in talks to buy 30% chunk of Atos's breakaway cybersecurity biz Well... that's one way to retain data sovereignty PaaS + IaaS16 Feb 2023 | 2
Atos tossed €20m to build Max Planck Society supercomputer Unnamed platform boasts three times the application performance of its predecessor, Cobra HPC13 Feb 2023 | 2
Atos and Nest part company two years into 18-year £1.5bn contract Exclusive Insiders claim investment trust demanded design changes but didn't adjust deadlines, job cuts loom On-Prem01 Feb 2023 | 28
Labyrinth of 371 legacy systems hindered hospital's IT meltdown recovery Guy's and St Thomas' in London spent two months getting back on its feet after heatwave fried datacenter Systems30 Jan 2023 | 38
EU infrastructure risk project to address potential climate, 'resource' shortage catastrophes Atos-led group to protect European infrastructure from impact of future pandemics – using Horizon cash Government Tech Week24 Jan 2023 | 21
Atos will be paid $29m over $1b UK Met Office supercomputer dispute Settlement 'without admission of liability' followed court challenge to Microsoft mega-deal HPC09 Jan 2023 | 29
Atos opens 'exploratory talks' with possible investors in breakaway Evidian biz Aircraft maker Airbus linked with IT services provider's security, digital and big data unit On-Prem03 Jan 2023 |
Europe to have 2 of the 4 most powerful supercomputers as Leonardo comes online Pre-exascale system will be officially inaugurated at the Bologna Technopole in Italy on November 24 HPC22 Nov 2022 | 14
Kyndryl loses $281m in the quarter as modernization agenda continues How to turn a classic infrastructure biz into something fit for the cloud era On-Prem03 Nov 2022 | 5
UK.gov finds billions in cash for big data contracts Project two years in the making aims to improve public services... or what's left of them Databases26 Oct 2022 | 20
IT management giant DXC confirms takeover interest No formal offer yet received, Baring Private Equity Asia linked with ailing IT services house On-Prem05 Oct 2022 | 5
Atos rejects bid from rival for digital, big data, security units Despite having €4.2b reasons from Onepoint to ditch Evidian strategy and sell up On-Prem30 Sep 2022 | 2
DXC Technology linked with private equity takeover talks The cloud has forever changed infrastructure services landscape – just ask IBM, HPE, CSC and Atos On-Prem22 Sep 2022 | 8
Atos investor says turnaround plan 'too ambitious and complicated' Sycamore Asset Management: Outsourcer 'badly run' with 'profit margin,' growth 'below industry averages' On-Prem12 Sep 2022 | 14
Atos waves bye to 12k staff, adds 16k mostly in offshore and nearshore sites 'Executed swiftly on cost optimization measures' as part of transformation blueprint On-Prem28 Jul 2022 | 7
Atos CFO to follow CEO out the door following 'Evidian' split plans Plus: Each of the new orgs gets its own finance officer, if the split goes ahead in second half of 2023 On-Prem20 Jun 2022 | 6
Atos, UK government reach settlement on $1 billion Met Office supercomputer dispute Exclusive It is sure a lot of money to be able to say confidently: 'It's going to rain' Legal14 Jun 2022 | 41
Atos CEO resigns after board proposes splitting the company Digital, Big Data, and Security units to be known as 'Evidian', less profitable parts as 'Tech Foundation Co' On-Prem14 Jun 2022 | 8
Atos pushes out HPC cloud services based on Nimbix tech Moore's Law got you down? Throw everything at the problem! Quantum, AI, cloud... HPC25 May 2022 |
UK's National Savings & Investments bank looks for new IT partner in £172m deal Outfit behind Premium Bonds wants fresh start after 25 years with Atos SaaS16 Feb 2022 | 12
Atos realises future does not belong to data centre services €1.9bn goodwill writedown, another profit warning, going to focus on cloud, digital and security from now on On-Prem10 Feb 2022 | 2
French tech giant Atos issues second profit warning in 7 months Week 2 for new CEO, forced to report sliding sales, delayed projects to investors PaaS + IaaS10 Jan 2022 | 3
When free and open source actually means £6k-£8k per package: Atos's £136m contract with NHS England 'All software must be safely and securely deployed within guidelines provided to us,' says outsourcer Software29 Jun 2021 | 97
Blue passports, French service provider: Atos bags £21m UK Passport Office deal Plus ça change On-Prem11 Jun 2021 | 39
Bull in a cosmos shop: Edinburgh uni boffins strike deal with Atos for BullSequana supercomputer Time running out for secrets of cosmos to remain hidden HPC02 Jun 2021 | 6
Atos handed £1.5bn to run IT for UK government-founded pension trust Nest French outsourcer will handle software, networking, and infrastructure On-Prem10 Mar 2021 | 20
Atos shares rebound briefly as biz decides acquiring DXC is probably not worth the bother HPE cut off its own arm to escape infrastructure services On-Prem02 Feb 2021 | 10
French integrator-cum-outsourcing biz Atos confirms bid for DXC Technology Initial offer reported to be in region of $10.1bn, no certainty acquisition deal will be done SaaS07 Jan 2021 | 25
French services outfit Atos told to pay $855m in trade secret pinching case Challenges jury verdict immediately and offers to pay one percent of damages Security29 Oct 2020 | 6
Load of old Bull: French integrator Atos trots out first edge server box Don't worry, it'll shut itself down if someone hits it hard enough Systems17 May 2019 | 15
UK.gov's love-in with big biz for digital services continues, as does claim of boosting small firms More millions handed out to Atos, CDW, AWS... SaaS28 Aug 2018 | 4
Atos to hoover up US tech buzzword biz Syntel for $3.4bn Buy bolsters firm's banking, finance and insurance bits Channel23 Jul 2018 |
Europe's scheme to build exascale capability on homegrown hardware is ludicrous fantasy Analysis Um, which hardware would that be, then? HPC29 Jun 2018 | 39
McDonald's tells Atos to burger off: Da da da da da, we're lobbing IT ... ... support to a Capgemini call centre (and one in India) Channel23 Apr 2018 | 45
Gemalto friendzones Atos: We're with Thales now, get the hint We'll wait for you! cries spurned suitor On-Prem18 Dec 2017 | 2
Gemalto spurns €4.3bn proposal. So we're in with a chance then, says Atos You say you're not into us. Let's 'dialogue' over dinner On-Prem14 Dec 2017 | 1
Gemalto: Cheers for that 'unsolicited' €4.3bn bid, Atos. We'll think about it We've long admired you from afar, croons French outsourcer On-Prem12 Dec 2017 | 5
Aviva dumps DXC, shoves data centre support at Atos Exclusive UK insurance bods find new bit barn bouncer On-Prem01 Dec 2017 | 26
Take that, gender pay gap! Atos to offshore hundreds of BBC roles Exclusive Beeb bigwig reckons £75m saved in IT could help pay parity. What? On-Prem26 Jul 2017 | 93
Britain's warhead-watcher to simulate Trident nukes with Atos supercomputer No Bull... no flops... or should that be the other way round? HPC05 Jul 2017 | 74
Beeb hands £560m IT deal to Atos. Again Well it's sustainable ... it's a single source producer... Yep! Boutique massive outsourcing Legal12 May 2017 | 54
Home Office extends mega 18-year Fujitsu contract So much for breaking up the SIs then Legal27 Oct 2016 | 3
Boo hoo. Brexit to hit Capita's bottom line Don't worry, outsourcing giant is still doing a roaring trade Channel27 Jul 2016 | 3
Serco stems its gigantic losses, shrinks 2015's to a mere £70m CEO (Winston Churchill's grandson) says plan has 'survived first enemy contact' Channel25 Feb 2016 | 4
Met Police hands £250m to CSC in IT outsourcing carve-up Firm joins Atos and Steria in taking on Dixon of Dock Green's PCs Channel24 Feb 2016 | 11
Europe makes it rain for cloud biz: £30m of gold showered on BT, IBM etc And Accenture and Atos and ... wait, no Amazon AWS or Microsoft Azure? Channel08 Feb 2016 | 6
Unify leashes direct sales reps as it cozies up to channel types Listen up people – we'll have rules of engagement Channel11 Jan 2016 |
Three-years-late fit-to-work IT tool will cost taxpayers £76m Poor old Atos and Capita now doing manual admin Channel08 Jan 2016 | 66
Rumor mill in overdrive as Dell pumps up Perot price, Atos offers $4.3bn Going once, going twice ... Channel05 Jan 2016 | 9
MPs slam mandarins over failed GP IT system Updated Public Accounts Committee asks: Have you learned nothing? Channel31 Dec 2015 | 37
Capita cracks open the bubbly after 10 per cent sales jump Frenchy rival Atos also celebrates big growth despite DWP contract boot Channel29 Jul 2015 | 1
Atos buys up Xerox ITO, splashing almost $1 billion in process French firm sets its sights on US takeover Channel02 Jul 2015 | 2
French outsourcer Atos fattens revenues on UK public sector UK government biz buoys otherwise flat sales On-Prem22 Apr 2015 | 6
UK public sector biz keeps French giant Atos buoyant Busy year for hungry outsourcer digesting Xerox ITO and Bull Channel19 Feb 2015 | 3
Merlot and hot dogs: Atos snaps up Xerox's outsourcing biz for $1.05bn Plan for world domination based on shrugs and '3-year strategic plan’ Channel19 Dec 2014 | 4
MoJ hands £125m to outsourcing giant Atos Soz, Computacenter, Fujitsu, HP ... you lost out Channel05 Nov 2014 | 8
BBC man Linwood 'was unfairly sacked' over £100 MILLION DMI omnifail Employment tribunal rules Beeb acted unfairly on dismissal Legal07 Aug 2014 | 21
Ah, so that's why French IT giant Atos is officially full of Bull Integrators to cling together as top line stagnates, bottom line falls Channel29 Jul 2014 |
French IT giant Atos is officially full of Bull.... and €620m lighter Embiggened firm expects to hit no 2 spot in EU cloud Channel27 May 2014 | 6