Atos co-founds GAIA-X to build a secure and transparent European data and cloud framework
Paris, four June 2020
Atos, a world-wide leader in digital transformation, is very pleased to announce its position as a founding member of the GAIA-X Foundation, a non-profit business that is becoming set up to develop the future technology of facts platforms for Europe, its member states, firms and citizens.
The GAIA-X Foundation, fashioned by 22 corporations (digital leaders, industrials, academia and associations) which include Atos, underlines a joint determination to a clear European approach, openness and wide participation. It will construct on the present get the job done initiated by the French and German governments and supported by much more than 300 enterprises. The GAIA-X task enters a new phase of its enhancement and sets an essential milestone towards the European Union’s ambition to consolidate its management in the world-wide facts economic climate.
The creation of digital ecosystems calls for developing believe in and interoperability across all cloud end users and companies. GAIA-X will handle this obstacle by way of a typical set of guidelines, an “Architecture of Standards” and a set of “Federation Services” which carry with each other present Cloud companies and their companies and in which facts and programs can be taken care of in a way that assures complete command. It will enable corporations from all measurements and across all sectors to reward from hyperscaler offerings in Europe while respecting a set of critical guidelines.
Involved in the enhancement of Cloud considering that its inception, Atos brings its demonstrated abilities of and encounter in Cloud Computing, supported by its complete portfolio and strategic partnerships with foremost Cloud company companies and deep knowledge of purchaser requires.
Elie Girard, CEO of Atos, points out: “Europe’s digital management in the facts economic climate calls for adaptable and safe Cloud capabilities. By facilitating infrastructure, application and facts portability, GAIA-X will enable European enterprises and public administrations to share their decentralized facts in a reliable and safe way, boosting Cloud adoption and the creation of value-extra ecosystems. This will fortify Europe’s competitiveness because the approach is unparalleled, pushed by industrials, collaborative with hyperscalers, and aims at defining a realistic set of guidelines and specifications steady with European values and aspirations”.