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DXC Technology to sell healthcare business to Italy ’ s Dedalus Group in US $ 525 million cash deal
DXC Technology , a global independent , end-to-end IT services and solutions company , has announced it is selling its healthcare provider ' s software business to an Italian healthcare technology company in a cash deal worth US $ 525 million . The deal will make DXC ' s healthcare provider software business , a part of Florence , Italybased Dedalus Group , which claims to be Europe ’ s leading healthcare and diagnostic software provider and one of the largest in the world .
DXC , which was formed in the 2017 merger of HPE Enterprise Services and CSC , has been looking since late last year to seek strategic alternatives for three of its businesses : its US , state and local health and human services business ; its horizontal business process services ( BPS ) business and its workplace and mobility business . Those businesses combined represented about 25 % of DXC ’ s total revenue . DXC declined to provide more information about the sale beyond the company ’ s press statement .
DXC ’ s healthcare provider software is currently used by over 1 million users , including users in 80 % of the top 15 US-based , Fortune 500 healthcare organisations , DXC says on its website . Those users are maintaining 100 million electronic health records .
The software business includes an open digital health platform DXC says can help improve care outcomes with contextual and actionable insights .
LAKE Solutions puts trust in Scality for new cloud-delivered Backup-as-a-Service offering
Scality has announced that LAKE Solutions , a leading cloud service provider in Switzerland , has deployed Scality RING to power a new Backup-as-a-Service offering , providing its customers with a reliable and secure infrastructure with cloud-like economics . LAKE can now assure customers that its data is both available and compliant with local data protection regulations . LAKE deployed Scality RING storage clouds built on Hewlett Packard Enterprise ( HPE ) Apollo 4000 Systems delivered with the HPE GreenLake-asa-Service consumption model . Thanks to this flexible storage platform and consumptionbased pricing model , the company upgraded its backup offering with the long-term objective of expanding service offerings to customers . This flexibility allows LAKE to respond to demand surges much faster than it could in the past and helps handle the uncertainty in customer usage peaks more efficiently and cost-effectively . The new solution enables LAKE ’ s customers to back up to the cloud with just about any backup software on the market .
“ With Scality RING and HPE Apollo 4000 Systems , we are able to scale disk by disk instead of needing to add entire nodes as with traditional infrastructures ,” said Roger Schellenbaum , Head of Cloud Infrastructure at LAKE .
“ As our customers grow their backup requirements , we can accommodate them at a very granular level , which is more costeffective for them and for us .” www . intelligentcio . com INTELLIGENTCIO
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