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Partnerships to drive the
ambition of Orange Business
Services to become global
leader in multi-cloud services
Strategic partnerships with
the industry’s leading cloud
infrastructure suppliers to
support businesses in their critical
application management in multi-
cloud environments.
ollowing the acquisition of
Basefarm in August and
increasing its cloud revenues by
18% in the first 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 environment. 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 has announced it can
support its clients and manage their most
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critical applications on Amazon Web Services
(AWS) with 100 experts trained on these
technologies 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.
Orange Business Services integrates the
latest technological advances in its solutions,
such as hyper convergence, Artificial
Intelligence or Platforms-as-a-Service
(PaaS). The goal is to enable businesses
to meet their requirements in terms of
agility and competitiveness. It 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
Data has become the
fourth production factor
in the economy.
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.
Helmut Reisinger, Chief Executive Officer,
Orange Business Services, said: “Data has
become the fourth production factor in
the economy. Our goal is to enhance 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.”
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