Orange Business Services Reaffirms Its Ambition to Become a Global Leader in Multi-Cloud Services
18 Septiembre 2018 - 4:00AM
Business Wire
- Strategic partnerships with the
industry's leading cloud infrastructure suppliers to support
businesses in their critical application management in multi-cloud
environments
- Goal of generating more than 50% of
revenues outside France and 25% annual growth by 2022
Following the acquisition of Basefarm in August and increasing
its cloud revenues by 18% in the 1st half of 2018, Orange Business
Services is pressing ahead with its growth strategy for the cloud
computing market. Its target is to become a global leader in
multi-cloud services.
On average, enterprises rely on five different cloud providers,
81% of which operate in a multi-cloud environment1. To support
these companies manage this diversity, Orange Business Services has
chosen to be agnostic in its choice of cloud technologies. This
positions Orange as an integrator that can orchestrate and leverage
various applications, critical or not, in an end-to-end,
multi-cloud environment, be it public or private cloud.
Orange Business Services has set up, beyond its own
infrastructure, a major alliance strategy with other leaders in the
industry. After partnering with Microsoft Azure, Orange Business
Services is announcing today that it can support its clients and
manage their most critical applications on Amazon Web Services
(AWS) with 100 experts trained on these technologies in France and
globally.
With a total of 2,200 cloud experts, Orange Business Services is
continuing to invest in its own cloud capabilities and plans to
hire 300 employees in 2018 worldwide.
To achieve its goal of generating more than 50% of its cloud
revenues overseas by 2022 and being able to support its customers
across all geographic regions with a high standard of service and
availability, Orange Business Services has decided to forge key
alliances, notably with Huawei. In this context, it will be opening
a new Data Center in Amsterdam in October, following the latest
opening of one in Atlanta last May. Basefarm's activities, which
generated 100 million euros of revenues in 2017, are also driving
Orange Business Services’ strong growth ambitions outside
France.
Innovation at the core of growthOrange Business Services
places innovation at the heart of its cloud strategy and integrates
in its solutions the latest technological advances, such as hyper
convergence2, Artificial Intelligence or Platforms as a Service
(PaaS). The goal is to enable businesses to meet their requirements
in terms of agility and competitiveness.
Orange Business Services has also implemented a structured
co-innovation approach with its customers, which has inspired, for
example, to develop a new monitoring tool for strategic
applications that is unique in the market because it can be
accessed on mobile devices.
A Cloud Starter offering for start-ups was also launched this
year. Orange Business Services’ ambition is to support them by
offering cloud services to develop their solutions. RendR, which
allows you to visit lost historical heritage sites, has reduced its
computer generated imagery calculation time by 98% thanks to this
offering.
"Data has become the fourth production factor in the economy.
Our goal is to enhance on our carrier-grade integrator expertise to
support businesses throughout the entire data cycle from
collection, to protection, analysis and sharing. The storage and
calculation capacities offered by cloud computing and the
opportunities for transformation and acceleration it offers
businesses makes it key to our ambition and growth," said Helmut
Reisinger, Chief Executive Officer, Orange Business Services.
Orange Business Services' cloud activity
in figures
- No.1 cloud supplier in France - PAC Report 2018
- 2,200 cloud experts, half of whom are outside France
- 300 employees to be hired in 2018 in France and overseas
- 18% growth in cloud revenues in H1 2018
- 3,500 customers worldwide
About Orange Business ServicesWithin the Orange
telecommunications group, the 22,000 employees of Orange Business
Services are dedicated to serving French companies and
multinationals in every continent, supporting them in their digital
transformation on a daily basis. Orange Business Services is an
infrastructure operator, technology integrator and value-added
service provider. It offers businesses digital solutions for their
employees (collaborative workspaces and mobile workstations),
customers (omnichannel customer relationship and development of new
services) and projects (rich connectivity, flexible IT
infrastructure, and cyber defense). The integrated technologies
range from new-generation networks (SDN/NFV) to Big Data, connected
objects, cloud computing, unified collaboration and communication
applications, and cyber security. More than 2 million
professionals, businesses and public authorities in France rely on
Orange Business Services – as do more than 3,000 world-renowned
multinationals around the globe.
For more information, go to www.orange-business.com or follow us
on LinkedIn, Twitter and our blogs.Orange is a leading global
telecommunications operator with revenues of 41 billion euros
in 2017 and nearly 260 million customers in 28 countries
as of June 30, 2018. Orange is listed on the NYSE Euronext Paris
(ticker ORA) and on the New York Stock Exchange (ticker ORAN).
Orange and all other Orange products and services included in
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Brand Services Limited.
1 Source: Rightscale 2018 (Businesses with 1,000+ employees)
2 Hyper convergence integrates storage, network and
virtualization resources in a single system to reduce the
complexity of data centers and increase their scalability.
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