LATEST REGIONAL PROJECT UPDATE
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FRANCE
The French industrial company , Verkor , has announced that it has raised € 100 million in funding . Co-led by EQT Ventures and Renault Group , with participation from the French Government and Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Region , the funding will support the company ’ s expansion and trigger the construction of the Verkor Innovation Centre ( VIC ) where the advanced battery cells and modules will be designed to support Europe ’ s net-zero goals .
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GERMANY
Corero Network Security , a leading provider of real-time , automatic Distributed-Denial-of-Service ( DDoS ) cyberdefence solutions , and Juniper Networks , a leader in secure , AI-driven networks , team up to provide Plusnet , an organisation offering communications and network services to 25,000 businesses in Germany , with their joint DDoS Protection Solution to protect its infrastructure , business and customers within seconds of a DDoS attack .
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SPAIN
Radware , a leading provider of cybersecurity and application delivery solutions , and Fujitsu have announced an expanded partnership to enable increased traffic capacity for two Spanish healthcare organisations necessitated by the use of remote access during the COVID-19 pandemic . To overcome the operational challenges that these customers faced , Fujitsu implemented Radware ’ s Alteon Application Delivery Controller ( ADC ). Alteon now provides these healthcare organisations with network load balancing for all web , cloud and mobile-based applications .
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AUSTRIA
Aptean , a global provider of mission-critical enterprise software solutions , has announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Ramsauer and Stürmer , a leading provider of Enterprise Resource Planning ( ERP ) software in Austria . The transaction will provide Aptean with an expanded geographic presence in the Germany , Austria and Switzerland ( DACH ) region , where demand for digital business solutions increased during the COVID-19 pandemic .
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