SUSE Acquires Losant: Extending the Open Edge Stack into Industrial IoT
SUSE announced the acquisition of Losant, a Cincinnati-based industrial IoT (IIoT) platform. The acquisition marks a material expansion for SUSE, moving the company from being primarily an edge infrastructure provider (built around SUSE Linux Micro and K3s) to the application and orchestration layer, where operational data from industrial devices is aggregated, visualized, and acted on.
Research Note: Honeywell’s $300M Investment in Quantinuum
Honeywell continues its investments in quantum computing by announcing a $300 million equity fundraising for Quantinuum, the leading integrated quantum computing company, valuing it at $5 billion pre-money.