FRANCE TELECOM : Orange confirms leadership in French cloud computing market with over 3,600 customers to date
Orange confirms leadership in French cloud computing market
with over 3,600 customers to date
Orange confirms leadership in French cloud computing
market with over 3,600 customers to date, January 26,
2012
Robust growth in customer portfolio in 2011 energized
by success of Flexible Computing Express and Cloud Pro
offers, validating the value provided by a telecoms operator
such as Orange as cloud partner
Presentation of Galerie Video, the world's first VPN hub for
video sharing across the enterprise
Signature of two major contracts for cloud-based unified
communications, with Danone and Ondeo IS
Over 3,600 customers have already chosen Orange Business
Services cloud computing solutions. This includes 110 for the
Flexible Computing Express Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
offer, introduced in October 2011, and over 2,500 small
business customers for Cloud Pro, a suite of online services
launched in June 2011.
competitive positioning as the operator with best-in-class
IT expertise
To truly tap the power of the cloud, businesses need a
high-performance, reliable network able to deliver quality
end-to-end service, from user connection to the IT platform
that hosts their applications. Therefore Orange dedicates a
large part of its investments (representing over 5 billion
euros in total) in network infrastructure in France and
around the world. As a world-class operator whose networks
are widely recognized for their quality and
performance-including a myriad of industry awards-Orange
Business Services provides companies of all sizes with the
service quality and security that lets them fully leverage
the huge potential of cloud computing.
"The quality of the network is what really makes the
difference in the quality of cloud services," says Vivek
Badrinath, CEO of Orange Business Services. "Without a
completely reliable, high-performance infrastructure, the
cloud can't live up to its promises. We're capable of
delivering this end-to-end quality of service. As the
convergence of IT and telecoms continues to deepen, our
collaboration with over 100 technology partners further
enriches our ability to offer integrated cloud services with
powerful performance."
To provide businesses with proven security and quality of
service, Orange works with numerous certification and
standards organisations, enabling the operator to give access
to certified cloud services and infrastructures. As a result,
Flexible Computing Premium is the first cloud service in
France to be awarded ISO 20000* certification for IT service
management. Orange Business Services IT operations in France
are also certified ISO 9000 (quality management) and the IT
support centre in Rennes is certified ISO 27000 for
information security. What's more, Orange Business Services
has successfully completed the International Standard on
Assurance Engagements (ISAE) 3402 audit process. This new
standard replaces the American SAS 70 norm. It validates the
security, performance and guaranteed service continuity of
Orange's data centres and network infrastructures.
Cloud computing is one of the strategic pillars of Orange's
"Conquests 2015" plan, targeting 500 million euros in
revenues by 2015. In 2011, Orange Business Services posted
strong growth in cloud computing revenues, in line with this
target.
world first: Galerie Video for secure on-demand video
sharing
Orange Business Services continues to build its leadership
in the cloud with the announced 2Q 2012 launch of the first
video sharing solution that integrates the trust and
performance critical to business customers. The new Galerie
Video platform is designed for all corporate visual
communication resources, including corporate videos,
training, e-learning, interviews and more. Based on
Dailymotion Cloud technology, the hub is accessed from
anywhere on the corporate VPN via the Business VPN Galerie
offer. This solution links the customer VPN and the cloud
services of Orange Business Services or its technology
partners.
The portal can be quickly customized without any special
technical expertise to enable sharing of all corporate
videos, regardless of the format or size. The service
includes viewer statistics for administrators and features
that let users rate videos and post comments. Charges are
based on use, with monthly subscription plans based on the
number of videos viewed.
unified communications and collaborative working: Danone and
Ondéo IS choose Orange
Orange Business Services has signed two contracts, with
Danone and Ondéo IS, for deployment of Business Together as a
service, its cloud-based unified communications
solution (UCaaS).
Within the scope of a five-year framework agreement, Danone
will outsource telephone services for its French sites to
Orange Business Services. During the first phase the solution
will be implemented for 3,400 desktops at four Danone "Head
Quarter" sites and subsidiaries in the Paris region.
The solution enables the Danone Group to benefit from
unified communications and collaborative working solutions in
software as a Service (SaaS) mode. Employees will have
anytime, anywhere access to voice over IP telephony,
dashboards, a shared corporate directory, softphone,
integrated and instant messaging plus other
efficiency-enhancing services. The "pay as you grow" model
enables Danone to expand the service beyond the initial 3,400
desktops.
Ondeo Industrial Solutions chose the cloud-based unified
communications solution from Orange Business Services for 300
desktops at 60 different sites. The subsidiary of Suez
Environnement has 650 employees in seven European countries,
including France. Ondeo IS is a specialist in the
optimization and management of the industrial water
cycle.
Ondeo IS chose Business Together as a service to deploy a
flexible solution that is charged according to usage to
efficiently support restructuring and geographic moves of its
different sites. Equally important, this scalable solution
offers the agility needed to quickly adapt to staff needs for
new unified communications services like single number reach
or instant messaging, for example.
