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Data Centers &Managed Infrastructures
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appropriate solution for their business needs worldwide.
migrating and transforming customer workloads to the most
quality of delivery for both bi-modal and digital services moving,
data center network provides Tier-1 industrial strength for
strategic data center twinned hubs for regional presence. The
4 cloud hubs twinned in 8 data centers, backed up by 10
100 data centers enabling global reach across 5 continents, with
clients towards cloud, digital workplace, and IoT services. Over
the Atos strategy to support the Digital Transformations of its
Atos Datacenters are a fundamental element of the backbone of
cloud, carbon footprint, capacity, continuity and cost. The
Atos global data center strategy is based on principles covering
closed by the end of 2019.
migrated and closed in the last 5 years and a further 26 being
consolidation program with over 44 data centers having been
consolidating or phase out facilities in line with the successful
modular data centers, move to modern colocation facilities and
program to upgrade its data center network by building new
workload expansion plans. They also drive the Atos major
capacity and business continuity for digital services and
principles ensure Atos’ data centers continue to provide sufficient
the art facilities and low Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE), which
Atos new generation of data centers is leading-edge with state of
facilities across 3 countries between 2016 and 2018.
centers in key strategic countries including 2 new and 4 renewed
PUE of 1.15. Atos will invest in building new state of the art data
eco-efficient air-cooled facility opened with a spectacular low
reduction of PUE from 1.9 to 1.3. In the UK a brand new
without interruption, while the new technology resulted in a
and security make-over while services were up and running
cloud hub in an existing facility had a complete power, cooling
demonstrated in both Germany and the UK, in Germany our
help Atos to maintain its green leadership. This was
Green leadership is spearheaded by Atos continued deployment
tackling climate change.
section D.4 Managing the corporate environmental footprint and
of the worldwide “Ambition Carbon Free” program described in
underway to extract further improvements.
3
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generation automation for which Atos has pilots already
the 2017. This will eventually lead to unstructured no pattern or
get to 70% in unstructured pattern 2
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generation automation in
automation for the resolution of tickets over 2016, with plans to
demonstrated up to 30% savings in 1
st
generation structured
traditional productivity savings. The results have already
become a workforce ready for the future and delivering the more
same time as standardizing tools globally, staff up-skilling to
automation and including true artificial intelligence. This, at the
robotic process automation, intelligent automation, cognitive
improvements in automation across orchestrated automation,
deploying autonomics. Autonomics is an evolution of
service costs and provide increasingly agile services, Atos is
To continuously improve data center services quality, reduce
managed video surveillance services built with our strategic
protection for their most business critical, prized assets;
Resource Island, for customers who require highest levels of
Other new innovative services developed in 2016 included Atos
operations.
consultancy, camera strategy and design, deployment
the elements of a surveillance solution from security
partner EMC plugging a market gap for a single provider for all
Atos Canopy Orchestrated Hybrid Cloud
C.2.2
emerging trends by delivering comprehensive industrialized
Atos Canopy Orchestrated Hybrid Cloud is fully addressing these
consideration in enabling and sustaining the digital transformation.
frameworks. “Cloud first” strategies are becoming the default
customers to deploy comprehensive cloud strategies and cloud
customers. This past years revealed a growing trend within our
Cloud services are a key enabler for the digitization at enterprise
applications and infrastructures.
end-to-end capabilities for the transformation of our customer’s
transformation in three key areas:
Cloud computing makes significant contributions to digital
play a key role in these developments;
business-driven policies for IT automation and self-service
very rapid pace. Certain cloud technologies such as
and flexibility, allowing the deployment of new services at a
infrastructure that delivers significant improvements in agility
operational efficiency through the implementation of an IT
Cloud computing allows enterprises to improve their
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from any location in the world;
collaboration, allowing access to information anytime and
customer and user experience driven by mobility and
Cloud computing proposes a modernized approach to
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businesses in a very competitive landscape.
evolve very quickly so that our customers can reinvent their
web-native application landscapes that can deploy, scale and
Cloud computing drives the rapid emergence of new,
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To fully leverage these benefits, enterprise cloud will be hybrid
applications & platforms which will never move to cloud.
by nature, with a private and a public part, plus many legacy