135 million euros "in the cloud" reveals the daily Les Echos on Wednesday, the state will invest heavily in the project Andromeda, a company to be established on November 1 by bringing together a conglomerate Orange, Thales and Dassault systems with the aim of forming a French giant cloud computing. Also called "cloud computing" (cloud in English), cloud computing covers all services that are managed directly online, and not from software running on a workstation: e-mail services , word processing, database management ...
The industry heavyweights like Microsoft, Google and Amazon, already offer pallets of virtual services, for individuals but also businesses. For the latter, the interests are many: easy management - maintenance is ensured by their provider - economies of scale, ease of deployment ... on the lucrative niche of office, for example, Microsoft and Google compete in a market growing, with Google Docs and Office 365, launched last year.
SOVEREIGNTY OF DATA
But these remote services have their weaknesses, and assume that the particular customer abandons a portion of control over his computer. In sensitive areas such as defense or health, companies are reluctant to use services that make their data pass through servers in the United States or other countries. It is here that intends to use Andromeda to create a French giant capable of competing with U.S. companies.
The question is even more acute for the authorities. "The sovereignty of the data is a key point for the public players," explained Jerome Brown Tuesday, Vice President of Atos in the conference back to Microsoft France. The two companies have launched a partnership to offer a version of the government services of Microsoft Office 365, hosted by Atos - and thus in France. "The public needs the assurance that their data will not leave Europe, or better yet, the national territory. We often hear that these technologies do not interest the public sector is completely wrong, but must be able to meet their specific constraints. "
In other countries of the European Union, the constraints could tighten drastically: the Netherlands and are planning to ban outright the use of government online services run by U.S. companies. Indeed, recall Numerama, U.S. anti-terrorism legislation allows the government access to all data hosted by American companies.
The industry heavyweights like Microsoft, Google and Amazon, already offer pallets of virtual services, for individuals but also businesses. For the latter, the interests are many: easy management - maintenance is ensured by their provider - economies of scale, ease of deployment ... on the lucrative niche of office, for example, Microsoft and Google compete in a market growing, with Google Docs and Office 365, launched last year.
SOVEREIGNTY OF DATA
But these remote services have their weaknesses, and assume that the particular customer abandons a portion of control over his computer. In sensitive areas such as defense or health, companies are reluctant to use services that make their data pass through servers in the United States or other countries. It is here that intends to use Andromeda to create a French giant capable of competing with U.S. companies.
The question is even more acute for the authorities. "The sovereignty of the data is a key point for the public players," explained Jerome Brown Tuesday, Vice President of Atos in the conference back to Microsoft France. The two companies have launched a partnership to offer a version of the government services of Microsoft Office 365, hosted by Atos - and thus in France. "The public needs the assurance that their data will not leave Europe, or better yet, the national territory. We often hear that these technologies do not interest the public sector is completely wrong, but must be able to meet their specific constraints. "
In other countries of the European Union, the constraints could tighten drastically: the Netherlands and are planning to ban outright the use of government online services run by U.S. companies. Indeed, recall Numerama, U.S. anti-terrorism legislation allows the government access to all data hosted by American companies.
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