Atos and OVHcloud want to create a Euro cloud

Atos and OVHcloud have teamed up to build a “100 per cent European market-leading multi-cloud solution”.

The French systems integrator giant and Europe’s sole hyper-scale say they have developed cloud transformation capabilities and services for enterprises and the public sector that comply with EU privacy regulations like GDPR.

Using Atos OneCloud and OVHcloud’s cloud solutions partners and customers will have access to a joint network of more than 130 datacentres to host dedicated private environments.

Both companies are founding members of GAIA‑X, the European Association for Data and Cloud, which was founded last year.

The coalition’s mandate is to create the European cloud infrastructure and solutions to take on the hegemony of US and Chinese giants AWS, Azure, GCP and Alibaba Cloud.

Atos Southern Europe CEO, Yannick Tricaud said that the pair will continue to develop end-to-end, trusted and sovereign cloud infrastructure, applications and industry data spaces for European partners and customers.