GÉANT Selects Orange Bus. Services as Its Trusted Cloud Service Provider for pan-European Educational & Research Ecosystems
23 Marzo 2021 - 08:00AM
Business Wire
- Trusted cloud services offered to 8,000 institutions and 50
million users in Europe
- Designed to accelerate cloud adoption in European research
groups
Orange Business Services has been selected by GÉANT as one of
its preferred partners in its Open Clouds for Research Environments
project (OCRE). OCRE is designed to provide academic and research
institutions with all the benefits of cloud, including enhanced
security, flexibility, improved efficiencies and collaboration, for
their projects.
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Orange Business Services has been
selected by GÉANT as one of its preferred partners in its Open
Clouds for Research Environments project (OCRE). (Photo credit:
Orange Business Services)
The OCRE project aims to accelerate cloud adoption in the
European research community by bringing together cloud providers
with earth observation, health, research and education groups. The
agreement enables Orange Business Services to sell public cloud
services to National Research Education Networks (NREN) and more
than 8,000 institutions across Europe – covering over 50 million
users – and leverages Orange local, in-country support and
capabilities across Europe.
GÉANT is a fundamental part of Europe’s e-infrastructure,
delivering a pan-European network for scientific excellence,
research, education and innovation. It provides a catalog of
connectivity, collaboration and identity services to its users, as
well as IT resources through the OCRE program. OCRE delivers a
process for the selection and adoption of cloud-based tools via a
framework of agreements with service providers. These are designed
to meet the specific requirements of all the various research and
education communities.
Accelerating cloud adoption in the European research and
education communities with Orange trusted cloud and cloud expert
services
Orange Business Services will provide its trusted public cloud
platform Flexible Engine, a high-performance infrastructure capable
of supporting emerging technologies, such as big data management
and artificial intelligence (AI), with a security perimeter to
guarantee the security of the platform.
Flexible Engine services are already leveraged in numerous
European initiatives and will be part of the sovereign offers
within the GAIA-X ecosystem, which was set up to develop and
promote common requirements for a transparent and interoperable
European data infrastructure. Orange is one of the 22 founding
members of GAIA-X, contributing to the development of the
guidelines and core services for this new federated, open data
infrastructure based on European values.
“The knowledge and expertise of Orange in the cloud environment
will enable us to give our members the right combination of
governance, services and pricing. This will allow our members to
tap into the power of a future-proofed cloud infrastructure that
will significantly expand their research capabilities,” said Dave
Heyns, Director Cloud and Digital Services, GÉANT.
“We are thrilled to be a chosen cloud provider in the Open
Clouds for Research Environments (OCRE) project. By teaming with
Orange Business Services, GÉANT has a trusted and global digital
services partner capable of delivering the agility of cloud and
associated professional services to research and education groups
across Europe. This will enable them to remain at the forefront of
research and innovation. With our extensive GDPR and European
regulatory expertise, researchers can have a trusted environment
for their own intellectual properties,” said Kristof Symons,
Executive Vice President, International, Orange Business
Services.
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innovates for enterprises around the world to support sustainable
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expertise of the Orange Group, its technology and business
partners, and a pool of finely selected start-ups. More than 3,000
multinational enterprises, as well as two million professionals,
companies and local communities in France, put their trust in
Orange Business Services.
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