GÉANT Selects Orange Business Services as Its Trusted Cloud Service Provider for pan-European Educational and Research Ecosystems
Orange Business Services has been named a preferred partner by GÉANT for the Open Clouds for Research Environments (OCRE) project, aimed at boosting cloud adoption within European research. This partnership will allow Orange to market public cloud services to National Research Education Networks (NREN) and over 8,000 institutions, benefiting around 50 million users. The project focuses on enhancing security and collaboration through Orange's Flexible Engine platform, which is also set to integrate with the GAIA-X ecosystem, promoting a unified European data infrastructure.
- Partnership with GÉANT expands market access to over 8,000 institutions and 50 million users in Europe.
- Provision of Flexible Engine services supports advanced technologies like AI and big data, enhancing Orange's service offerings.
- Participation in the GAIA-X ecosystem positions Orange as a key player in developing European data infrastructure.
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Orange Business Services has been selected by GÉANT as one of its preferred partners in its Open Clouds for Research Environments project (OCRE). OCRE is designed to provide academic and research institutions with all the benefits of cloud, including enhanced security, flexibility, improved efficiencies and collaboration, for their projects.
Orange Business Services has been selected by GÉANT as one of its preferred partners in its Open Clouds for Research Environments project (OCRE). (Photo credit: Orange Business Services)
The OCRE project aims to accelerate cloud adoption in the European research community by bringing together cloud providers with earth observation, health, research and education groups. The agreement enables Orange Business Services to sell public cloud services to National Research Education Networks (NREN) and more than 8,000 institutions across Europe – covering over 50 million users – and leverages Orange local, in-country support and capabilities across Europe.
GÉANT is a fundamental part of Europe’s e-infrastructure, delivering a pan-European network for scientific excellence, research, education and innovation. It provides a catalog of connectivity, collaboration and identity services to its users, as well as IT resources through the OCRE program. OCRE delivers a process for the selection and adoption of cloud-based tools via a framework of agreements with service providers. These are designed to meet the specific requirements of all the various research and education communities.
Accelerating cloud adoption in the European research and education communities with Orange trusted cloud and cloud expert services
Orange Business Services will provide its trusted public cloud platform Flexible Engine, a high-performance infrastructure capable of supporting emerging technologies, such as big data management and artificial intelligence (AI), with a security perimeter to guarantee the security of the platform.
Flexible Engine services are already leveraged in numerous European initiatives and will be part of the sovereign offers within the GAIA-X ecosystem, which was set up to develop and promote common requirements for a transparent and interoperable European data infrastructure. Orange is one of the 22 founding members of GAIA-X, contributing to the development of the guidelines and core services for this new federated, open data infrastructure based on European values.
“The knowledge and expertise of Orange in the cloud environment will enable us to give our members the right combination of governance, services and pricing. This will allow our members to tap into the power of a fu
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