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Atos Origin Launches Atos Sphere

January 18, 2010

Atos Sphere is a new combination of its consulting, hi-tech transactional services, systems integration and managed operations services:

consulting support to understand what is at stake in their specific situation, design a roadmap and manage their cloud program. Atos Origin’s strength is its expertise in accompanying its customers throughout the process of selecting and investing in the right IT strategy to reap business results;
a range of Cloud Infrastructure Services hosted in Atos Origin’s own Data Centers and taking onboard all security features recognized as a key asset of Atos Origin. Clients will have the choice between Private Cloud, to get access to the flexibility and the scalability of Cloud technologies still maintaining a dedicated and well identified hardware platform, and Shared Cloud, to take advantage from full resource sharing benefits.
a range of functional services, that were often seen as too expensive for a single client but now become available even for smaller companies or internal departments. Atos Sphere includes advanced SAP testing services, Data Migration services, Product Lifecycle Management services, and Atos-in-a-Box, a flexible, pay-per-use on-line workplace solution.

"One of the major reasons that Univé-VGZ-IZA-Trias (UVIT) has decided to outsource our Infrastructure Services to Atos Origin, is its strategy and Cloud Services solutions, which will support our services in terms of agility, cost savings, adaptability and innovations", says Jo Knippenberg, CIO of UVIT.

Green IT

In 2010 Atos Origin will be the first IT services company to report its sustainability achievements for 2009 according to the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) which are the worldwide de facto standards in sustainability reporting. In this respect it has measured its own carbon footprint and reported to the Carbon Disclosure Project. To go even further, in France, Atos Origin has carried out a Carbon Audit in partnership with ADEME & O2 France to evaluate the global carbon footprint of its Aubervilliers Data Center. This assessment can be considered as a groundbreaking initiative in our ICT market.

The Ambition Carbon Free solutions program is designed to harness the IT transformation which consists in integrating energy efficiency best practices and minimizing carbon impact which includes Carbon neutral solutions.
Ambition Carbon Free offerings include:

Transformation services and solutions including sustainability Maturity Assessment (sustainability roadmap), operational measurement systems (Intelligent Sustainability), Change Management Program (Sustainable Cultural Behaviors), Digital Company (Sustainable Working Environment), Business Transformation (Green Procurement, Green Supply-chain and Green Manufacturing), in order to provide the best balance between performance and Green efficiency
IT Green Transformation Projects include application portfolio rationalization, workplace energy efficiency, Green infrastructure transformation using the new technologies of virtualization, Green data centers where applications are hosted in an environmentally-friendly way. To further decrease the carbon emitted by the hosting applications, Atos Origin has concluded a partnership with Schneider Electric in order to implement the best Green performing cooling technologies in its data centers. Through these various solutions, the IT Carbon footprint of Atos Origin clients can be dramatically abated.
In addition, for the first time in 2010, Atos Origin proposes to its customers to offset the remaining IT CO2 emissions, through a partnership with a trusty offsetting organization. More specifically, Atos Sphere will be providing Cloud solutions with zero carbon footprints. The Offsetting initiative will be part of a Carbon Footprint Abatement Programs with the principal objective of shrinking the CO2 emissions.

“Cloud Computing and Green IT represent a major shift in business approach for the IT industry, as well as to our clients. Atos Origin can help its customers in their journey and accompany them all the way to transfer to green Cloud Services, as we are able to create transformation solutions customized with our client needs. We anticipate that the new Atos Sphere and Ambition Carbon Free services will be integrated into our customers’ existing environment and considered within their overall strategy. We predict that our new services are the cornerstone of new ‘after crisis’ growth models not only to companies but also for the public sector”, says Thierry Breton, CEO at Atos Origin.