Atos and OVHcloud to create a European Multi-Cloud solution

Atos and OVHcloud announced their strategic partnership go create a 100% European multi-cloud solution.

The cloud solution intends to leverage the Atos OneCloud solution launched in November 2020. Atos intends to invest around  €2 billion in the next 5 years for Atos OneCloud. The partnership also intends to leverage OVHcloud's cloud solutions.

Executive Opinion

Chief Executive Officer, Atos in Southern Europe, Yannick Tricaud, "Tomorrow’s businesses will be cloud-first and data driven, magnifying the need for a trusted digital infrastructure and services that can be tailored to their specific requirements in terms of SLAs, security, sovereignty or scalability. Our Atos OneCloud initiative was designed to create this unique bridge between digital cloud solutions and our customers’ business needs. Our partners are a central part of our approach and we are happy to now welcome OVHcloud to our ecosystem. Our collaboration relies on strong synergies and together, we will embark our customers on a circle of digital trust through our European cloud offering."

Chief Executive Officer, OVHcloud, Michel Paulin, said, "The acceleration of digital transformation across public and private sector industries has been significant, and we are delighted to collaborate with Atos to build common cloud solutions responding to their specific needs. Atos expertise and technological excellence combined with OVHcloud’s powerful ecosystem, sovereign infrastructures and cutting-edge multi-cloud products will bring a real added value to the market."

Atos and OVHcloud's European Cloud

OVHcloud recently received a SecNumCloud label from the French National Cybersecurity Agency (ANSSI) to guarantee the highest security standard for their private cloud. Atos will also offer a security solution on top of OVHcloud.

Atos and OVHcloud are the founding members of the European Association for Data and Cloud, GAIA-X. The collaboration will help with compliance guarantees to the future GAIA-X framework, as well as for other EU privacy regulations like GDPR, notes the announcement.

The partnership will also allow their clients to leverage a network of more than 130 datacenters to host dedicated, private environments.

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