Bouygues Telecom Entreprises OnCloud is a new independent structure that benefits from its own infrastructure and Nerim's decade of experience, specialising in hosting and cloud computing.

"For the past two years, dozens of employees have been designing new infrastructures and offers based on our customers' real needs. What Bouygues Telecom Entreprises OnCloud offers today is unique on the market, both in terms of the quality of the advice it provides and its technical and commercial agility," explains François Treuil, Director of Bouygues Telecom Entreprises.

Bouygues Telecom Entreprises OnCloud is an operator, integrator and host all rolled into one and aims to establish itself as a pure player in the cloud. Its ambition is to be rapidly recognised as a trusted cloud, according to the new name given by the French government as part of the National Cloud Strategy. However, this recognition requires SecNumCloud certification issued by the ANSSI. This is a complex, restrictive and costly process that will take several months, if not years.

A new player that wants to reach out to a wide range of customers, including SMEs and SMIs, public authorities and large groups. The operator wants to offer public IaaS cloud services as well as help companies build their own private clouds.

However, the field is already crowded with American hyperscalers (AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI, IBM Cloud, etc.), small local hosting companies and OVHcloud and 3DS Outscale, which are already SecNumCloud certified. Not forgetting Scaleway and the still nascent Bleu (the result of a joint venture between Capgemini and Orange). And not to mention the Gaia-X initiative, which should also enable other European operators to establish themselves more strongly in France. The competition is going to be tough...

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Source : Informatique News

The Cloudwatt, Orange's online data hosting service, will be disconnected on February 1st. Launched in 2012, it was one of the two heads of the French-style sovereign cloud co-financed at a loss by public money. With Bercy calling again for the creation of secure data centers to host sensitive government and corporate data, this failure could serve as a lesson.

At the origin of this project, called Andromeda, France wanted to invest 150 million euros in a shared server service that could reduce the costs of ministries and companies. But here we are, the French technology groups called upon to help did not succeed in reaching an agreement and therefore shared the envelope.

On the one hand, Cloudwatt was created by Orange and Thales by adding 150 million euros to the amount provided by the State. On the other hand, Numergy was launched by SFR and Bull with the same investment. However, none of them were able to find customers. And two years after their launch, Cloudwatt claimed only 2 million dollars in revenue. Even if Numergy was doing better with 6 million billed, these are crumbs compared to Amazon, Microsoft and IBM.

Bercy stops the expenses, a few months later, by assuring that she has spent only half of the promised sums. Orange and SFR then bought back the shares of the State, one from Thales and the other from Bull. Numergy and Cloudwatt, which had then become simple brands, had since been part of the offers designed for large companies by the two telecoms operators.

Today, the dominance of American players in the online IT market continues to raise concerns about the integrity of critical data. A recent report by MP Raphaël Gauvain criticizes the Cloud Act, an American extraterritorial law recalling the Patriot Act and spy programs.

The Government should therefore sign a strategic supply chain contract to develop a "Cloud of Trust" ecosystem in the fall. Being French will not be enough to be French and some American or Chinese technologies used in French data centers will be difficult to support.

"This time, we will not assume the nationality of the actors but their ability to guarantee data integrity with regard to our laws and strategic autonomy over our essential infrastructures and data," notes Jean-Noël de Galzain, Hexatrust's president on the sector's strategic committee. In addition, the State should commit itself to playing its role as a buyer.

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Source : Les Echos

Announced on January 18th by Free's parent company, the acquisition of 75% of the capital of the French company Jaguar Network will enable the operator to strengthen its offers on the B2B market. These shares, previously held by the Naxicap investment fund, were sold for just under €100 million.

"This transaction is an important step for Iliad in its development strategy to address the corporate market by leveraging the very strong expertise and complementarities between the two groups and by partnering with a recognized entrepreneur," said Free's management after the acquisition.

This takeover should enable Iliad to develop its national network of data centers in order to increase its capacity to provide technical support to companies. However, this operation should not change the organization chart of the operator and host Cloud Jaguar Network since the company remains managed by its founder, Kevin Polizzi, who remains a shareholder with 25% of the capital.

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Source : ZDNet

Since more than 25 years, C'PRO has been proposing solutions to companies centered around 3 sectors: printing and dematerialisation solutions, information technology and hosting, operator and telephony. Indeed, data are at the heart of the organisation. Intended to produce, sell or manage, they are essential for it to function correctly. Digital or physical, paper or voice, e-mail or video conference, these data represent a growing importance that needs to be managed, and they are derived from multiple channels...

 "OUR 3 COMPLEMENTARY ACTIVITIES allow us to accompany our customers in the optimisation of their data flow in order to increase their capacity to manage this growing volume of data."

The C'PRO Telecom infrastructure is: 99.99% of availability of service, 11 core network nodes, 10 Gbps per node of interconnection, Internet transit and the ARBOR protection against DDoS.

"In order to constantly improve our availability and our connectivity, it seemed obvious to us that we needed to  connect ourselves to LyonIX, who is the main IX of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. This connection enables us to strengthen our offer, at the height of the leading actors of Internet".

C'PRO in some figures:

620 employees
20000 customers
31 agencies
130 M€ CA

3 datacenters 11 Operators Points of Presence (PoP) in France and abroad

C'PRO is présent at the LyonIX 2B rack

ASN : AS197033

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FullSave, hosting service provider and telecom operator, is now interconnected on the LyonIX Internet eXchange Point.

"FullSave is a regional operator and hosting service provider mainly present in the South-West of France. Firmly service-quality oriented, FullSave has been implementing its prestations as a Hosting and Telecom Service Provider for more than 10 years.
Wether it be for an information system externalization project, Cloud Computing, or telecom infrastructure deployment (fiber and/or SDSL), our choice is to always be able to provide a custom solution in perfect adequation with your infrastructure projects.
In order to improve the quality and resilience of our network, we set-up a multi-10Gbps national backbone via Lyon. In this framework, our presence on LyonIX is important in improving exchanges between Toulouse and Lyon. We are hence able to provide new services to our customers who manage a presence in Rhône-Alpes." declares Julien Rozelle, Sales Manager.

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Fullsave (AS39405) is present in the LyonIX 2A and 2G racks.

The Teldej 10 organised by Rezopole, on October, 19, 2012, made a presentation of  APL France. The video is now available on Rezopole website.  Marie Chabanon, APL Lyon Manager presented to Rezopole members the topic: Confidently build a hosting strategy. Outsource, host in proper or couple the two approaches? To access the album lunch, you can click here.

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