Atos hopes to accelerate its customers’ cloud migration plans. The “Atos OneCloud” released yesterday was officially released as “a one-stop service that provides specific marketing functions for specific industries, all of which are handled by specialized organizations.”
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Elie Girard, CEO of ESN, concluded that Atos OneCloud “consolidates departmental consulting capabilities and expertise into a set of end-to-end services.” “Atos will comprehensively build and deliver a business transformation roadmap [en 90 jours]With the help of a strong partner ecosystem,” he added. However, this approach will be the result of “co-creation” (sic).
Atos emphasized that since it is indeed a service (orchestration, DevSecOps, automation, etc.), the purpose of this new service is to make the company “modular” by introducing new services to “modularize” the cloud at one time or in whole or in part.
Atos OneCloud has nothing to do with technology
Atos is also agnostic in terms of cloud (public, private or hybrid) and provider (multi-cloud). ESN even mentioned the possibility of managing “a new generation of private and sovereign cloud platforms that can be deployed and managed in any data center at any time.” According to records, Atos is one of the founding members of the European sovereign cloud project GAIA-X.
The Atos partners participating in the demo are long-term partners of ESN: Google Cloud, Microsoft, AWS, IBM, Dell and SAP. Atos also talked about its privileged relationship and cooperation with ServiceNow and Salesforce.
In short, Atos will provide customers with the choice of one or more cloud providers they want, and package by providing suggestions for a certain industry or a specific field of cloud services for its partners, thereby providing customers with Play the role of aggregator. industry. All of this is accompanied by a commitment to green IT (decarbonizing the cloud) and cybersecurity.
Atos also pledged to invest 2 billion euros to enhance its cloud capabilities, expand the expert certification library, accelerate research and development and make new acquisitions (for example, the acquisition of consulting companies Maven, Wave and Edifixio).
Meet new IT service expectations in the cloud era
“The company is speeding up the adoption of cloud technology [d’IA et de Machine Learning, ce qui] Said Tom Reuner, senior vice president of HFS Research. “Atos responded to this development by consolidating all of its cloud assets into a new department.”
“Use cases, reference architecture and roadmap construction are one of the main factors of differentiation [de l’offre]. »
John LahtiNelson Hall
For analysts invited by Atos, the strength and difference of French ESN lies in its investment in the European initiative GAIA-X and its world decarbonization center of excellence.
For John Laherty, a senior research analyst at NelsonHall (also at the invitation of Atos), French ESN has another considerable asset: “”Your Atos OneCloud Plan”, which allows for a 90-day collaborative design method and use cases to be established. Reference Architecture and roadmap are one of the main differentiating factors and a firm commitment to customers”.
Atos play green IT card
At the virtual press conference, just as Atos OneCloud was launched, Elie Girard emphasized many expectations surrounding the cloud-and hollowed out the potential obstacle OneCloud he intends to eliminate with Atos. Including ecology (an observation shared by SAP France).
“All customers have a goal to reduce their carbon footprint; they need specific help.”
Elie GirardActs of the Apostles
“When we interviewed customers, [ils nous ont dit] What they want is greater flexibility, greater agility, shortened time to market, and improved reliability, especially for critical applications,” said the CEO.
“They want all of this while improving competitiveness, including in terms of cost. They want security, technological independence, sovereignty, but now they also want to…decarbonize absolutely. They all have a strong goal of reducing their carbon footprint. Need specific help to achieve this.”
