2022 Data Industry White Paper

whitePaper | August 25, 2022

This paper discusses how hybrid cloud and data analytics together enable new business value to be created in financial services organisations, proposes ways in which analytics can be embedded successfully and outlines how Atos, Microsoft and Dell EMC are collaborating to help bring these advantages about.

whitePaper | May 26, 2022

Since their invention in 1970 by Edgar Codd, relational databases have served as the default data store for almost every IT organization, large or small. Today, the most iconic and familiar relational databases include IBM DB2, Oracle Database, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and MySQL.

whitePaper | July 6, 2023

Cross border data flows came to prominence under Japan’s G20 Presidency in 2019, with the Data Free Flow with Trust (DFFT) framework. Since then, the G20 Presidencies have set DFFT as a major priority in the promotion of worldwide digitisation, building the pillars that led G7 leaders to endorse and commit to a roadmap for cooperation on DFFT. Cross-border e-commerce has had a 45-fold increase1 in a decade, reaching an estimated USD2.7 trillion by 2023.2 Nearly two-thirds of global commerce is related to digital technology, with companies and governments investing an estimated USD6.8 trillion in digital transformation initiatives between 2020 and 2023.3

whitePaper | November 26, 2019

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a rapidly growing field of technology with potentially significant implications for national security. As such, the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) and other nations are developing AI applications for a range of military functions. AI research is underway in the fields of intelligence collection and analysis, logistics, cyber operations, information operations, command and control, and in a variety of semiautonomous and autonomous vehicles. Already, AI has been incorporated into military operations in Iraq and Syria. Congressional action has the potential to shape the technology’s development further, with budgetary and legislative decisions influencing the growth of military applications as well as the pace of their adoption.

whitePaper | February 8, 2023

For centuries, patients have sought medical help for their ailments. Just as in the past, however, there are still many illnesses – both wellknown, widespread diseases and rare conditions – that initially cause few or inconclusive symptoms, and many patients leave the doctor’s office with an incorrect diagnosis. In addition, diseases may progress slowly or quickly depending on the individual.

whitePaper | June 27, 2023

Data mesh is an innovative approach to data management that offers a solution to the most common challenges organizations face when dealing with large-scale data management. Data mesh concept consists of four key principles for large-scale data management in a multi-tiered, multi-domain organizational structure: domainoriented ownership, data as product, federated computational governance and a self-service data platform. These all promote a more agile, efficient and scalable data architecture. However, one of the central challenges to implementing data mesh is designing decentralized governance mechanisms that align with its core principles.