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Highways Agency inks £75m outsourcing deal
News The Highways Agency has awarded Atos Origin a £75m contract to manage its IT infrastructure and applications over the next five years. Under the contract, 120 staff will transfer to Atos Origin. As part of the deal, Atos Origin will deploy its... [03 Jan 2008]
Atos awarded 2012 Olympics
News Atos Origin has extended its IT services agreement with the International Olympic Committee through to 2012. At a signing ceremony last week, the IT services provider and the IOC have extended an existing technology partnership where Atos Origin... [05 Jul 2005]
€1.3bn SchlumbergerSema deal sealed
News Atos Origin has finally completed its €1.3bn cash and shares acquisition of rival services company SchlumbergerSema. The conclusion of the deal will see the new company, to be called Atos Origin, become a 'tier one' European outsourcing vendor... [30 Jan 2004]
Atos picks up KPN Datacenter for E163m
News Dutch telco Royal KPN has agreed to sell its datacentre unit to Atos Origin for E163m. Atos Origin, an information technology service provider, has secured a long-term E163m (£100m) deal with Royal KPN, to outsource its datacentre unit. [27 Jul 2001]
SGI updates midrange Unix server
News SGI has unveiled its Origin 350 Unix server, a descendant of the two-year-old Origin 300 that has more new processors, additional memory capacity and faster input-output capability. Like the Origin 300 introduced two years ago, the 350 comes in... [16 Apr 2003]
Bezos' space exploration company sets up base camp
Blue Origin, the secretive space exploration company founded by Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos, on Thursday quietly announced plans to build a testing facility on a remote ranch in western Texas. In its first public statement about its ambitions, Blue... [14 Jan 2005]
Olympics diary: Stressed to the limits
Comment Claude Philipps, chief technology integrator for Olympics IT partner Atos Origin, is keeping a diary of his Olympics experience here on silicon.com. This data is then quality assured by the Atos Origin team to ensure it is accurate and corresponds... [25 Aug 2004]
Scottish NHS IT deal up for grabs
News The National Health Service (NHS) in Scotland is putting its IT up for grabs when an £11.5m a year contract with outsourcer Atos Origin ends next year. Atos Origin then inherited the contract when it bought SchlumbergerSema in 2004. [13 May 2005]
Identifying Cisco Network Threats
White Paper Cisco breaks out threats by their origin and by their type. When the SAFE Blueprint discusses the origin of threats (internal versus external), it repeats the perception that most threats actually originate inside the network instead of penetrating... [23 Jun 2006]
Hash-Based IP Traceback
White Paper Even in the absence of any deliberate attempt to disguise a packet’s origin, wide-spread packet forwarding techniques such as NAT and encapsulation may obscure the packet’s true source. We present a hash-based technique for IP traceback that... [25 Feb 2004]
Virgin Trains IT director heads off to Atos Orgin
News The IT director of Virgin Trains has left to take up a position focusing on the development of an e-ticketing system for the UK transport industry at IT services company Atos Origin. Jeremy Acklam started as e-ticketing solutions manager at Atos... [13 Apr 2005]
Beijing Olympics diary: Testing times…
Comment Yet two major tasks remain to be completed, says Jeremy Hore, chief integrator for Olympic worldwide IT partner Atos Origin, in his exclusive silicon.com diary. Volunteers and full-time staff from Atos Origin and the other IT partners will be... [21 Jul 2008]
Beijing Olympics diary: Serious games
Comment The only way to find out is tough testing, says Jeremy Hore, chief integrator for Olympic worldwide IT partner Atos Origin, in his exclusive silicon.com diary. The rehearsal involved a 2,500-strong workforce from the Beijing 2008 Organising... [23 Jun 2008]
Athens Olympics braced for wave of cyberattacks
News The International Olympics Committee (IOC) outsourced its IT to Atos Origin for the four winter and summer games that began with the Salt Lake City winter games in 2002 and will end with Beijing in 2008. [20 May 2004]
London 2012 to promote local tech talent
News The Olympic Games IT is delivered by the official technology supplier Atos Origin with a team of around 3,500 people - 80 per cent of whom are volunteers. Speaking at the silicon.com CIO Forum in London today, Rob Price, Atos Origin account manager... [15 Oct 2007]
