Atos and partners launch Gaia-X lighthouse project for European cloud infrastructure

• European cloud expert services companies start “Structura-X”

• Concrete implementation of Gaia-X compatible expert services

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Paris, France and Munich, Germany – February 22, 2022

European electronic firms and cloud providers have released an initiative for common infrastructure services that satisfy Gaia-X specifications. 28 firms and companies, such as Atos, agreed to make their cloud providers Gaia-X compliant. The Lighthouse project “Structura-X” enhances marketplace-unique initiatives for the automotive sector (Catena-X), agriculture (AgriGaia) and finance (EuroDat). Original Gaia-X compliant choices are anticipated to be all set by the middle of this yr.

The initiative was born out of the need to have to develop a Gaia-X-compatible infrastructure in Europe, along with market solutions. In coordination with the Gaia-X Affiliation, seven European electronic companies initially agreed on the prevalent purpose: Atos, Aruba.it, DE-CIX, Deutsche Telekom, Engineering, Noovle and Best-IX. In the meantime, supplemental businesses from all around Europe have joined. To day, this provides up to 28 Structura-X customers[1] from 10 countries.

“We are proud to start Structura-X, jointly with critical European cloud suppliers and electronic organizations. Structura-X will empower the essential scale for new cross-sector and cross-country collaboration in the cloud, to foster a federated European cloud and edge infrastructure. As part of this initiative, Atos will bring its digital protection remedies and products, as European current market chief, to guarantee the total sovereignty and safety of cloud infrastructure solutions.” mentioned Santi Ribas, Head of Cloud Company Solutions, Atos.

Structura-X invites extra cloud provider vendors to sign up for. The frequent objective is to form their present infrastructure products and services into an eco-method for European info sovereignty. An overarching European cloud infrastructure is remaining developed. Users will be able to examination and deploy their services and details rooms in a Gaia-X-accepted infrastructure.

Structura-X will work closely with Gaia-X, which between other routines defines the complex framework for info sovereignty. At the exact same time, Structura-X will help the necessary scale for new cross-sector and cross-state collaboration in the cloud. The prior fragmentation of the European cloud current market will hence be prevail over.

Atos is involved in many tasks about cloud and electronic sovereignty, and not long ago introduced Atos OneCloud Sovereign Defend, in reaction to the developing requires of corporations and governments for digital sovereignty. The alternative permits Atos custumers to meet up with the problems of managing their information in the edge-to-cloud continuum, in line with the greatest jurisdictional info governance specifications.

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[1] Atos, Aruba.it, DE-CIX, Deutsche Telekom, Engineering, Noovle, Major-IX, AssoSoftware, City Community, Cloud&Heat Technologies, CS Team, CSI, EBRC, Elmec, Fabasoft, Worldwide Dataspaces Association, IONOS SE, KPN, Lux Innovation, Mainstream, Next Layer, OpenNebula Programs, OSISM, ThreeFold Tech, Tietoevry, United Team, Vivacom

About Atos

Atos is a world wide leader in digital transformation with 107,000 workforce and once-a-year profits of over € 11 billion. European range a single in cybersecurity, cloud and high-general performance computing, the Group supplies personalized stop-to-end methods for all industries in 71 countries. A pioneer in decarbonization companies and items, Atos is dedicated to a safe and decarbonized digital for its clients. Atos is a SE (Societas Europaea), outlined on Euronext Paris and provided in the CAC 40 ESG and Upcoming 20 Paris Inventory indexes.

The function of Atos is to aid style the long run of the information and facts place. Its know-how and products and services help the advancement of information, education and investigate in a multicultural tactic and contribute to the progress of scientific and technological excellence. Across the environment, the Team enables its clients and personnel, and customers of societies at big to stay, function and build sustainably, in a risk-free and protected information place.

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