NEWS
Atos expands
strategic
partnership with
Google Cloud
tos, a global leader in Digital
Transformation, has strengthened
its strategic partnership with
Google Cloud with two high-performance
regional extensions of existing Google
Cloud data centres in Frankfurt (Germany)
and Ashburn VA (North America), to
support Oracle database customers.
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These two regional extensions will be
equipped with Atos’ high-performance
BullSequana S servers and will enable
Oracle database customers to run their
workloads efficiently and effectively and
benefit from Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
Atos brings its expertise in end-to-end
cloud orchestration and management, and
infrastructure services and support, to
offer Oracle database customers a fully-
managed and secure cloud service which
will be seamlessly integrated with Google
Cloud Platform.
The BullSequana S from Atos is a
high-performance, modular and highly
scalable server and can be easily
configured to fit specific customer
needs and therefore optimise costs for
Oracle customers.
These regional data centres are certified
by Google Cloud to provide direct,
secure and high-performance network
connectivity, for faster and optimised
access to Google Cloud resources.
Thierry Breton, Chairman and CEO of
Atos and Thomas Kurian, CEO at Google
Cloud.
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Issue 06
First awards ceremony for the data
centre and cloud sector in Africa
atacloud Africa Leadership
Summit has launched a
new awards ceremony to
recognise data centre and cloud
excellence during the last 12 months
across the African continent.
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Nominations are now open for
the inaugural Datacloud Africa
Awards which will be held on the
evening of September 26 where
winners will be announced in the
following categories:
1. Africa Data Centre Service
Provider of the Year Award
2. Africa Cloud Service Provider
of the Year Award
3. Excellence in the Data Centre
Award: Africa
4. New Data Centre of the Year
Award: Africa
5. Global Connectivity for Africa
Innovator of the Year
6. Africa Data Centre Location
of the Year Award
7. Africa Data Centre Energy
Innovator of the Year
“It is very timely to showcase and
honour the achievements of leading
companies in the colocation, cloud
services, energy and data centre
sectors in the Africa region. We will
also recognise development agencies,
governments and trade associations
who have positioned Africa as a data
centre investment in the Africa Data
Centre Location of the Year Award,” said
Philip Low, Chairman of BroadGroup.
The nominations submission deadline
is August 15. The winners will be
announced on the evening of September
26 at the awards ceremony at the
Mövenpick Ambassador Hotel Accra.
For more information and to nominate
for the awards visit datacloudafrica.
com/awards
www.intelligentdatacentres.com