Atos co-founds GAIA-X to build a secure and transparent European data and cloud framework

Paris, 4 June 2020

Atos, a worldwide chief in digital transformation, is very pleased to announce its job as a founding member of the GAIA-X Basis, a non-profit firm that is becoming setup to create the future technology of info platforms for Europe, its member states, organizations and citizens.

The GAIA-X Basis, fashioned by 22 organizations (digital leaders, industrials, academia and associations) including Atos, underlines a joint motivation to a clear European procedure, openness and broad participation. It will make on the current work initiated by the French and German governments and supported by much more than 300 firms. The GAIA-X project enters a new stage of its development and sets an essential milestone toward the European Union’s ambition to consolidate its management in the worldwide info overall economy.

The creation of digital ecosystems involves constructing have faith in and interoperability across all cloud people and suppliers. GAIA-X will handle this obstacle through a common set of guidelines, an “Architecture of Standards” and a set of “Federation Services” which deliver jointly current Cloud suppliers and their companies and in which info and apps can be taken care of in a way that ensures whole regulate. It will enable organizations from all sizes and across all sectors to gain from hyperscaler choices in Europe although respecting a set of necessary guidelines.

Concerned in the development of Cloud since its inception, Atos provides its tested skills of and knowledge in Cloud Computing, supported by its comprehensive portfolio and strategic partnerships with main Cloud services suppliers and deep being familiar with of buyer wants.

Elie Girard, CEO of Atos, clarifies: “Europe’s digital management in the info overall economy involves flexible and safe Cloud capabilities. By facilitating infrastructure, software and info portability, GAIA-X will enable European firms and public administrations to share their decentralized info in a trusted and safe way, boosting Cloud adoption and the creation of worth-additional ecosystems. This will reinforce Europe’s competitiveness because the tactic is unparalleled, pushed by industrials, collaborative with hyperscalers, and aims at defining a affordable set of guidelines and expectations constant with European values and aspirations”.