During the AM TECH DAY event, Jérôme Sandrini, Chief Revenue Officer at 3DS OUTSCALE, answered questions from Adrien Laugier-Werth on AGEFI’s TV set. In this exclusive interview, Sandrini shared the company’s bold vision to revolutionize the financial sector by combining cutting-edge Artificial Intelligence with data sovereignty.

One of the most exciting advancements discussed in the interview is the use of generative AI. 3DS OUTSCALE enables innovative AI use cases, such as training models with financial and extra-financial data. This opens doors to opportunities like ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) reporting, increasingly significant in the financial sector.
The acquisition of the Innova software solution, which combines AI and business process management, allows to provide a real regulatory control solution for asset management, shared Jérôme Sandrini.

Sovereign Cloud at the Heart of Innovation

3DS OUTSCALE is a sovereign cloud operator and a brand of Dassault Systèmes, offering secure and trusted cloud solutions, qualified at the highest level (SecNumCloud) by ANSSI. Data sovereignty is key for financial sector, including regulators and asset management companies, seeking to preserve and secure their strategic data.

“As soon as we talk about operating a business software solution in an ‘as a service’ framework on the Cloud, the question of data protection, data confidentiality, and strategic data that must be preserved at all costs arises. It is necessary to reassure the players, particularly regulatory players and management companies, to be able to protect this data with a sufficient level of certification,” explains Jérôme Sandrini.

Convergence of Technology and Sovereignty

3DS OUTSCALE positions itself as a leading technological player, combining Dassault Systèmes’ expertise in AI with OUTSCALE’s sovereign cloud. This unique combination of technical know-how and data protection responds to the current and future challenges of the financial sector.

By participating in AM TECH DAY, 3DS OUTSCALE affirmed its presence in the financial ecosystem. Thanks to its innovative approach and commitment to data sovereignty, 3DS OUTSCALE is emerging as a pioneer in transforming the financial sector through cutting-edge technology.

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The interview is available in French.

Financial institutions are beginning their transformation towards the Cloud, with the percentage of regulated workloads on the public cloud now standing at 28% (+18% by 2020).* In fact, the announcement of the strategic partnership between OUTSCALE, a Dassault Systèmes brand, and BNP Paribas at the CLOUD DAYS event received special mention in the speech by Jean-Noël Barrot, Minister Delegate in charge of Digital Transition and Telecommunications. 

Indeed, banks and financial institutions have been slower to adopt the Cloud due to several factors specific to their industry. Among the reasons: data security, regulatory compliance, the complexity of European regulations, operational challenges related to financial institutions’ historical structures and systems, and the performance and availability of resources. Lack of trust in cloud providers and data sovereignty requirements have also led to some reluctance. But this is now changing, thanks to the Trusted Cloud. 

The benefits of scalability, flexibility and cost reduction, with offerings that are tailored to meet sovereignty and security requirements, are the factors that are driving the trend for cloud adoption. 

We spoke to Rui Jorge Lopes, Manager Sales EMEA at 3DS OUTSCALE.

How does Cloud computing add value to financial sector?

“Cloud offers a range of benefits and brings significant value to players in the banking and financial sector by improving agility and scalability for faster deployment of their applications, scaling of IT capabilities and the ability to adapt their resources in an easier way,” answers Rui Jorge Lopes. “All with a single objective: to increase their ability to meet their own customers’ needs”. 

“It’s also the desire to reduce costs that is at stake (purchase, maintenance, infrastructure upgrades, etc.): instead of investing heavily in a dedicated infrastructure, the Cloud enables access to resources on demand and paying only for what has been actually used,” he adds. “The Cloud facilitates innovation by enabling the rapid testing of new services and products, thanks in particular to the rapidly growing technologies such as artificial intelligence, and by fostering collaboration and data sharing between departments.”

In this way, Cloud adoption enables companies to stay one step ahead and improve their competitiveness in the market. Among the use cases, our expert cited the storage of large volumes of data with very high security standards, advanced use of Analytics and Business Intelligence (BI), the implementation of payment gateways and online banking services, improved customer relationship management with better knowledge of customers and an offer better adapted to their needs.

In order to meet the data protection and regulatory compliance requirements of financial institutions, trusted Cloud operators like OUTSCALE must ensure enhanced security for sensitive data, with guarantees provided by high-level certifications, such as the SecNumCloud qualification by ANSSI.

The security of highly sensitive financial data

The risk of cyber-attacks is a major concern for the financial sector. “Financial institutions are often prime targets for cybercriminals, with theft of sensitive data, ransomware attacks, financial fraud, potential disruption to operations, not to mention the possible reputational risks that would follow,” recalls Rui Jorge Lopes.

Sensitive data, such as financial information, customer data, medical records, and other personal information, are subject to strict confidentiality and security regulations. “The consequences of a security breach or poor data protection in the banking context can have repercussions for both the bank and its customers: a theft of sensitive information that can lead to a loss of customer confidence, or even regulatory and legal sanctions, not to mention the potential impact on brand image and remediation costs associated with the incident,” explains Rui Jorge Lopes.

How does the dominance of US Cloud providers influence the decisions of financial institutions, and what are the implications of extraterritorial laws for data stored in the Cloud? 

The Patriot Act gives US authorities, including intelligence agencies and law enforcement agencies, increased powers to collect information and access data, even data stored abroad, as part of the fight against terrorism and national security. This means that data stored in the Cloud by a US provider, even if located outside the U.S., may be subject to an access request by U.S. authorities.

The Cloud Act, for its part, aims to facilitate access by US authorities to data stored abroad by US Cloud service providers. It authorizes authorities to request data directly from US Cloud providers, whether stored in the US or abroad, potentially bypassing traditional mutual legal assistance procedures between countries. It also establishes a framework for bilateral agreements between the US and other countries to facilitate access to data for criminal investigations. This raises many questions and concerns about the confidentiality and sovereignty of data stored in the Cloud.

How do you choose a Cloud provider that is able to store and handle this critical, sensitive data? 

Security and confidentiality are then, along with performance and scalability, important criteria to consider: trusted Cloud providers must have very strong security measures to protect data and high-level certifications (SecNumCloud, ISO 27001, HDS, etc. for France), be compliant with regulations (compliance with RGPD and other industry standards), provide information on data location. 

“A trusted sovereign Cloud aims precisely to enable French and European organizations, especially government institutions and strategic companies, to store and process their sensitive data securely and reduce dependence on foreign Cloud providers by offering a sovereign alternative,” summarizes Rui Jorge Lopes. “This enables organizations to benefit from the advantages of the Cloud while preserving their sovereignty and control over their data.”

Therefore, the French sovereign Cloud by OUTSCALE, offers companies in the financial sector a secure environment that complies with current regulations, and is tailored to their specific needs. Certifications such as SecNumCloud qualification and the security guarantees provided reinforce confidence in the protection of sensitive information held by financial institutions.

Regulatory and legal challenges in the financial sector 

Financial players are faced with numerous regulatory and legal challenges. It is essential for them to keep up to date with current regulations on regulatory compliance, risk management, anti-fraud, consumer protection, international jurisdiction requirements that are constantly evolving, and to put in place adequate measures to comply with those requirements. 

“Sovereign, cloud-based SaaS regtech, legaltech or complitech solutions can then help them comply with regulations while improving their competitiveness,” adds our expert, who is also in charge of Business Experience Finance development at 3DS OUTSCALE.

Artificial intelligence for the financial sector 

With this in mind, OUTSCALE, a Dassault Systèmes brand and a sovereign and sustainable operator of Experience as a Service, has integrated the Innova regtech solution into its Business Experience for Finance portfolio. Innova is an end-to-end regtech platform that enables creation and automation of business processes for asset management companies, fund administrators and custodians. 

“This solution offers advanced data analysis, automatic detection of compliance rules and full automation of regulatory controls to manage the regulatory and legal aspects. It enables organizations to simplify their operations, improve efficiency and reduce the risk of non-compliance,” says Rui Jorge Lopes (who will be attending the next AM Tech Day, on October 3, 2023 in Paris).

Learn more about Innova

Take your competitiveness to the next level 

How can OUTSCALE bring value to organizations and companies in the financial sector through the Business Experience? With the support of Dassault Systèmes, OUTSCALE offers disruptive XaaS (Experience as a Service) solutions that are both powerful and secure.

According to Rui Jorge Lopes, with Business Experience for Finance, financial organizations benefit from the ability to : 

• gain real-time visibility of financial data to inform decision-making and improve financial performance, 
• automate and optimize financial processes to reduce errors and costs, 
• facilitate the centralization and versioning of all documents linked to financial activity, 
• set up compliance controls, model units to be monitored and track incidents, 
• improve forecasting and planning with data-driven insights, 
• ensure compliance with regulatory and industry standards relating to financial communication and data security.

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*https://cloudsecurityalliance.org/press-releases/2023/06/06/new-cloud-security-alliance-report-finds-cloud-services-are-well-rooted-in-all-aspects-of-financial-services/

It helps achieve cost savings as a shared pool of IT resources and services reduce the need for IT equipment, improve efficiency, leverage technological advancements, and focus on core business activities. Better scalability and flexibility lead to improved performance and cost-effectiveness for Cloud service users: a shared pool of on demand access resources mean you can easily transform your architecture, scale it, try new types of architecture, etc. Of course, decreasing energy consumption also helps support sustainability goals and demonstrate corporate responsibility.

Partnering with Cloud service providers that prioritize energy efficiency can help companies establish themselves as leaders in sustainability within their industry, attracting environmentally conscious customers and partners while enhancing their reputation and contributing to a positive brand image.

Introducing SimuGreen

During the CLOUD DAYS event, 3DS OUTSCALE presented SimuGreen, a simulator designed to help our clients and partners measure and optimize their energy consumption. This live session by Arthur Vervaet, Big Data and Artificial Intelligence PhD student at 3DS OUTSCALE, Maxime Dufour, open source developer at 3DS OUTSCALE, and Julia Soloveva, Master’s student at Isep Engineering School and the University of Vienna, explores the studies behind power efficiency in programming languages, introduces SimuGreen and the tests conducted, and presents the results achieved. Evgeny Vasyuk from 3DS OUTSCALE’s Data science team also greatly contributed to the project.

Watch below the replay of the presentation:

Power Efficiency of Programming Languages

Recent research supervised by Professor Joao Saraiva from Portugal was focused on studying the power efficiency of different programming languages. Findings from these studies have revealed significant differences in power consumption. For example, C was found to be 75 times more power efficient than Python in certain scenarios. While these results do not suggest that one should exclusively code in C, they emphasize the impact of programming language choices on the overall power efficiency of a system ^[1].

SimuGreen: A Powerful Simulator

SimuGreen is a simulator developed to estimate the energy consumption of a system based on its architecture and test scenarios. By providing scripts that define the target architecture and desired service operations, users can leverage SimuGreen to obtain accurate consumption estimates. The tool calculates the total power consumption of the system under specific scenarios, enabling quick and efficient benchmarking of multiple architectures.

SimuGreen utilizes a Cloud environment where virtual machines and hypervisors coexist. Users execute multiple runs of their system to account for variations in results caused by shared virtualization infrastructure. By averaging the estimations, SimuGreen provides a reliable power consumption figure. 

During a hackathon organized by Sagemcom, 3DS OUTSCALE and Isep engineering school, 16 teams competed to reduce the power consumption of a given service, written in Python, using SimuGreen and TerraForm to deploy the service into a OUTSCALE Cloud. They tested through multiple estimation runs (due to the shared Cloud environment) software optimization techniques, such as code simplification and algorithmic improvements, proved effective in reducing power consumption. Hardware optimization, particularly tuning virtual machine specifications for specific components like databases, yielded further gains. Remarkably, even within the limited 24-hour timeframe, some teams achieved nearly a tenfold reduction in power consumption for the proposed system. These findings highlight the potential impact of SimuGreen and the importance of considering power efficiency in system design.

Two Main Optimization Approaches: Software Optimization and Hardware Optimization

Software Optimization: Teams identified code segments with high power costs through profiling and employed methods such as code simplification, refactoring, and algorithmic improvements. Teams also optimized SQL queries and explored the possibility of using compiled libraries or alternative frameworks. 

Hardware Optimization: Given the Cloud environment, teams had the flexibility to tune virtual machine parameters to enhance performance. For example, they optimized disk input/output rates for components like databases to ensure optimal disk usage. These optimizations were conducted within a 24-hour timeframe and do not represent an exhaustive list of possibilities.

Watch the replay below to learn more about these tests! 

Further Optimizations and Future Work

Julia, who worked on SimuGreen during her master’s thesis, made additional optimizations resulting in significant decreases in virtual machine and idle compute consumption, ultimately reducing overall energy consumption by around 58% (SimuGreen allows to use four metrics which are virtual machine consumption, idle compute consumption, traffic power consumption and the total energy consumption). In fact, rewriting the code in Java and merging the virtual machines resulted in virtual machine consumption decreasing by approximately 64% and idle compute consumption by around 77%. Execution time was also optimized by over 50% in certain cases.

Future enhancements for SimuGreen include incorporating memory consumption measurements, alongside energy and time comparisons, as explored in a scientific paper by Portuguese scientists. Additionally, presenting data in graphical format could simplify the tool’s usage, especially for students and researchers.

Conclusion

SimuGreen presents a powerful solution for companies seeking to measure and optimize their energy consumption. By leveraging SimuGreen’s simulator, businesses can benchmark and optimize multiple architectures quickly and efficiently. The hackathon results demonstrate the tool’s potential for substantial power consumption reduction. As SimuGreen continues to evolve, future optimizations and extensions will further enhance its capabilities in helping organizations achieve greater energy efficiency.

Read articles by Raja Chiky, Alliances & CSR Director at 3DS OUTSCALE, here and here, and visit our website to learn more about our commitment to responsible and sustainable technology.

[1] Pereira, Rui, et al. “Energy efficiency across programming languages: how do energy, time, and memory relate?.” Proceedings of the 10th ACM SIGPLAN international conference on software language engineering. 2017.

A New Strategy Announced

A new strategy was unveiled on stage by Philippe Miltin, CEO, Arnaud Bertrand, CTO & SVP Cloud R&D, Jérôme Sandrini, OUTSCALE Chief Revenue Officer, and Raja Chiky, Director of Alliances & CSR, accompanied by the host, a Journalist Marion Moreau.

As announced by Philippe Miltin, CEO of OUTSCALE, during the Plenary, OUTSCALE will now operate all Dassault Systèmes platforms, including the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform, ITEROP (business process management) and Medidata, helping to deploy the company’s vision of being the first sovereign and sustainable operator of Trusted Business Experience as-a-Service.

OUTSCALE, present on all continents where Dassault Systèmes operates, will be able to operate Dassault Systèmes platforms worldwide, and will double in size in order to meet the needs of Medidata alone. Medidata is the world leader in clinical trials, with nearly 30,000 clinical trials and a database of 9 million patients.

Offering Advanced Sovereign Cloud Solutions

OUTSCALE is today one of the few players able to offer an end-to-end sovereign solution. The new roadmap, with sovereignty and sustainability at its core, is designed to meet the needs of the market: the public sector, banking and insurance, and the healthcare sector, with the new version of OUTSCALE Marketplace and strategic partners such as NumSpot.

NumSpot, the Cloud offering signed by the 100% French consortium (Docaposte, Dassault Systèmes, Bouygues Telecom and Banque des Territoires) and based on OUTSCALE’s infrastructure qualified SecNumCloud by ANSSI, aims to offer managed services, containers, service platforms, SaaS, and other expected services in a sovereign and secure environment. Alain Issarni, Executive Director of NumSpot, joined Philippe Miltin on stage to talk about the expectations held by organizations, now more attentive to the subject of sensitive data, which continues to evolve (particularly for the public sector) with the State’s “Cloud at the center” doctrine.

Watch Alain Issarni, Executive Director of NumSpot, on stage

What is Business Experience?

Going back to another central topic of the day, Business Experience, Philippe Miltin invited Aurélien Codet De Boisse, ITEROP’s Director, to share with us, through a few use-cases, how Business Process (a component of Business Experience) can benefit any type of organization.

Watch the presentation by Aurélien Codet De Boisse, Director of ITEROP.

OUTSCALE Partners Healthcare Players

With healthcare at the heart of OUTSCALE’s strategy, it was essential to highlight the opportunities we have to work with organizations in this vital sector. Our goal is not only to secure their sensitive data thanks to our HDS-certified and SecNumCloud-qualified Cloud, but also to support them in their large-scale projects, such as the creation of a central healthcare data warehouse, for example, with the help of Business Experience.

The Plenary’s special guest, Habib Boudissa, CIO of UniCancer, presented the hospital association, which includes 18 cancer centers and two affiliated members spread across the country. We also talk about 740 clinical trials in progress, over a million consultations, 580,000 treatments…

Discover the replay below:

Announcement of Partnership with PNB Paribas

The acquisition of Innova, a Regtech solution that leverages artificial intelligence to automate investment compliance checks, and the long-term partnership with BNP Paribas, Europe’s leading custodian bank managing nearly 12,000 billion in assets. “The aim is to offer a Business Experience solution based on the know-how of Dassault Systèmes and OUTSCALE to BNP Paribas Security Services and other customers, and to turn it into industrial software for the financial sector,” explained Philippe Miltin.

Find out more about the role of Securities Services, including its compliance monitoring mission, with Thomas Durif, Global Head of Depositary and Fiduciary Services, BNP Paribas, and why the company chose the Innova process management solution based on OUTSCALE and Dassault Systèmes to meet its needs:

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So, What are the Technological Innovations to Come?

First of all, the new layered model will be able to support all Dassault Systèmes platforms (Medidata, 3DEXPERIENCE…) by enabling all developers to free themselves from managing the underlying infrastructure thanks to an Abstraction layer (PaaS), and to be able to use infrastructure layers from other hyperscalers (multicloud).

Next, three Cloud models will enable institutions and enterprises with sensitive data and applications to strengthen their digital autonomy through a Cloud experience broken down into three levels:

• The International Cloud: an international public Cloud for secure collaboration, that benefits from internationally recognized certifications (HDS, TISAX, ISO 27001, ISO 26000…) ;
• Sovereign Cloud: a trusted Cloud within a common regulatory and fiscal space, covered by sovereign certifications by country in addition to international certifications (SecNumCloud, ITAR);
• Dedicated Cloud: a Cloud dedicated to sovereign collaboration in the customer’s own environment.

New Features Unveiled

New features will be added in 2023-2024, including DirectLink and virtual DirectLink, available almost immediately and without configuration, enabling a direct datacenter-to-datacenter connection, Dedicated Group to complement the isolation capabilities offered by virtualization, VM Group to create VM templates with common characteristics and manipulate all VMs associated with this template at the same time (the first step towards autoscaling). Other updates include a new version of Cockpit with an improved interface and a new IAM.

As object storage is a key element in the switch to Cloud computing and resilience in the Cloud, a new object storage infrastructure with enhanced performance will be offered (the only SecNumCloud-qualified object storage service on the market to date).

Arnaud Bertrand also announced the availability of a new range of next-generation CPUs (Ice Lake and Kaby Lake) that will enable customers to increase their computing power, the processing speed of their workloads, as well as their energy efficiency. Better adapted to today’s user requirements, this new generation of processors will deliver a better user experience and faster task execution.

The arrival of the much anticipated NVIDIA GPU A100 graphics cards was also announced by OUTSCALE’s CTO. Designed to offer high-performance graphics power, they enable you to explore new horizons and experience total immersion with 3D modeling and other more demanding simulations and more complex projects. OUTSCALE offers unique GPU services in France, available as part of the SecNumCloud qualified public cloud offering.

This year, OUTSCALE is taking steps to obtain SOC 2 type 2 certification: a framework for demonstrating the security controls put in place to protect customer data in the Cloud. This initiative reinforces OUTSCALE’s commitment to offering its customers the highest levels of compliance and security.

Finally, a carbon footprint calculator, which will in time be provided with the invoice, will be able to reconstruct the customer’s energy consumption by service/offer.

Watch the replay below to learn more:

Discover the speech of Philippe Miltin, OUTSCALE’s CEO, and learn more on our new strategy.

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3DS OUTSCALE’s Alliances & CSR Director took the opportunity to point out that OUTSCALE has been labeled LUCIE 26000 since 2017, which testifies to “our commitment to ethics, transparency in business, but is also evidence of how aware we are of the societal and environmental impact of all our activities.” These values are shared by 3DS OUTSCALE’s technology partners, who are also working to build a sustainable, responsible economy around the Cloud. Indeed, 98% of 3DS OUTSCALE’s suppliers are compliant with SBTi (Science Based Targets initiative), the initiative that encourages companies to set targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

“At 3DS OUTSCALE, we are committed to working with stakeholders to stimulate sustainable and responsible innovation,” continues Raja Chiky.

Our CSR commitments apply to OUTSCALE products and services through, for example, the Sustainability by Design approach adopted by our teams and the project for a carbon footprint calculator that will enable our customers to understand the impact of their consumption of Cloud services.

Among the other examples of actions cited by Raja Chiky, SimuGreen allows users to test several configurations for applications deployed in the Cloud, using a number of optimization options to calculate energy consumption. Users can therefore find the configurations with the lowest possible environmental impact. This open source tool was developed by 3DS OUTSCALE in collaboration with Sagemcom and ISEP. CSR also covers education and awareness, which are part of the OUTSCALE Academy program announced by Jérôme Sandrini, CFO at 3DS OUTSCALE.

DOME, a European Cloud marketplace

Raja Chiky’s talk also introduced collaborative projects such as DOME, which integrates several European Cloud marketplaces (38 partners from 14 countries) and aims to develop a complete industrial data ecosystem enabling inter-company data sharing with the purpose of generating value and creating new or improved products, processes and services. All this in compliance with the highest standards of data sovereignty and security.

The replay is available below. You will also watch the speech given by Tomas Petru, Policy Officer at the European Commission during the CLOUD DAYS 2023 event, and learn more on the DOME project, a European Cloud marketplace.

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OUTSCALE distinguishes three types: technology partners, integrators and software publishers present on its marketplace. Four of them were invited to join Jérôme Sandrini on stage to present current joint projects.

OUTSCALE Supports your Customers’ Digital Transformation Projects

Sylvain Chevrier, Chief Cloud Officer, Aeroline Group, Sopra Steria, described the new partnership between OUTSCALE and the French group, one of Europe’s leaders in digital transformation. Seduced by the guarantees provided by SecNumCloud qualification and the possibility of supporting European customers throughout their subsidiaries worldwide, thanks to OUTSCALE’s presence outside Europe.

Hélène Bringer, VP Public Sector at Eviden, joined Jérôme Sandrini on stage to present the Atos Group’s business line specializing in digital transformation, cybersecurity, Cloud, data and some critical defense activities. She also spoke about the importance of digital sovereignty, trusted Cloud and security for public sector and healthcare customers: “We’re seeing a change in the maturity of our public sector customers, an awareness, through use cases and new applications, in terms of modernizing their applications and using the Cloud.” Among the reasons cited: the flexibility that the Cloud brings, the technologies, but also the resilience and end-to-end availability of data.

Relying on Innovative, Open-Source French Solutions

For the next announcement, Julien Niedergang from Suse took to the stage to present the Rancher open source solution for managing Kubernetes clusters, and to illustrate with a demo of deployment on an OUTSCALE environment using Rancher. “A container orchestrator is the way to make a container producible with production qualities, resilience, scalability and so on. That’s our main goal: to make containers simple for you,” shares Julien Niedergang. “Rancher is a European company. We defend European values, its sovereignty, and OUTSCALE also brings in the security,” he continues.

Facilitating Access to the Best Services and Turnkey Solutions Available on the OUTSCALE Cloud

The last guest to join Jérôme Sandrini on stage was Pierre-Yves Hentzen, CEO of Stormshield, an OUTSCALE Marketplace partner. The Marketplace is a group of editors who form an ecosystem around OUTSCALE, accelerating adoption of the platform by customers who need a secure, trusted Cloud. These include collaborative, development, messaging or network platforms, cybersecurity solutions and more. “Our customers can come to OUTSCALE marketplace and buy their licenses directly, provision them, deploy them, install them in their environment”. The new one-stop-shop version will enable this to be done through a single interface.

Stormshield is a French company, an independent subsidiary of Airbus, and France’s leading pure-play cybersecurity vendor, operating in three areas: network security, desktop security and data security. “With OUTSCALE, we share common values, in this case our French, European origin, and notions of trust, transparency, respect and freedom. The freedom for our customers to make their own choices”, he adds.

Watch the replay of the session to find out more about the Stormshield solutions available on OUTSCALE Marketplace such as Elastic Virtual Appliance (virtualized firewall).

Training the Ecosystem for Future Cloud Challenges

To conclude, Jérôme Sandrini presents OUTSCALE Cloud Academy, a program designed to promote Cloud adoption and accelerate the scaling of OUTSCALE expertise through a rich training catalog.

Discover our partners’ solutions available on OUTSCALE Marketplace

Every year, during the CLOUD DAYS, the flagship event of 3DS OUTSCALE, our open-source team presents tools that help our clients and partners streamline or optimize tasks when using OUTSCALE’s Cloud services.

Below is the replay of Matthias Gatto, a Developer within our Open-Source team, demonstrating some new tools in a terminal. A terminal represents a command-line user interface that allows interaction with an operating system or application by entering text commands.

In this video, Matthias Gatto introduces an OSC-TUI tool that enables developers to maintain a graphical interface similar to Cockpit without leaving the terminal and staying in their preferred environment. He demonstrates through practical examples how the tool can be used for various tasks, including managing virtual machines (VMs), creating custom security rules, making API calls, using commands like “curl” to retrieve data from the web, and employing other tools for data manipulation.

Our team at 3DS OUTSCALE is delighted to contribute to a more open, inclusive, and collaborative technological ecosystem.

Check out the replays from the CLOUD DAYS event available here.

In startups’ dynamic, interconnected and highly competitive environment, where time-to-market is key, reducing time to develop and deliver solutions that are more innovative than others, security and sovereignty play a fundamental role in long-term success and prosperity. These two elements are essential to protect the valuable assets of emerging companies, build the confidence of customers and investors, navigate with agility in an ever-changing geopolitical landscape and preserve independence. It is crucial for startups to integrate these elements into their overall strategy from the outset.

Forging trustworthy partnerships

To achieve this, startups need to find support from the best players on the market, committed to meeting the highest standards not only in terms of performance, but also transparency, security and sovereignty. These companies can help startups manage data security, make them more efficient and ensure that the project has a real, long-term impact.

Estelle Brown, Manager of OUTSCALE for Entrepreneurs acceleration program, has gathered high quality speakers at CLOUD DAYS to explore how security and sovereignty have become cornerstones for startups, and how they help build solid foundations for their future:

Jennyfer Lecompte, Director of Research, Development & Innovation Programs at CAP DIGITAL, Guillaume Chelius, Codesigner at Inria Startup Studio, Eric Vedel, CISOs Field Advisory Practice – EMEA at CISCO, and Aurélien Codet De Boisse, Director of ITEROP.

A panel of experts to guide your choices

What are the main challenges that startups face when it comes to performance while remaining as transparent as possible? How do you choose between opportunism and compliance, short-term benefits versus the long term? How can organizations such as Inria Startup Studio, Cap Digital or OUTSCALE for Entrepreneurs help them ensure the protection of their future customers’ data, and integrate security and sovereignty constraints into their strategy as early as possible? 

The replay of the panel discussion is available in French:

Are you looking for a trusted partner to accelerate your startup’s development? Get the answers you need to tackle challenges and make informed decisions (advice, support, certification, financing, partnerships…)? OUTSCALE for Entrepreneurs is a startup accelerator that can help you just with that. Moreover, it allows you to benefit from the power and scalability of a sovereign, secure and certified Cloud.

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According to IDC, following the sudden surge in the use of digital technologies, the creation and replication of data continue to grow with a yearly average rate of 23% between 2020 and 2025. Therefore, storage capacity must increase significantly. 

A major change that raises the question of the management of their environmental impact. Indeed, if digital technology represents today less than 4% of global greenhouse gas emissions (GHG), the sector shows nevertheless a growth rate of 9% per year (French only). This trend may be irreversible, but it can be downplayed through the implementation of appropriate measures, if started today. 

CSR Commitment, a Foundation for Building Trust

If the public health crisis has considerably stimulated data consumption, the global geopolitical situation in 2022 raised fears of an unprecedented energy crisis. In this context, and from now on, Cloud actors must also be held responsible for their impact on society and the environment. In an increasingly demanding market, CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) has become a major competitive factor and a decisive criteria for trust.

3DS OUTSCALE started, in 2017, a CSR certification process labeled LUCIE 26000, the CSR reference label in France, aligned on ISO 26000, the international standard on corporate and social responsibility. An initiative completed in 2020 by the signing of the Climate Neutral Data Center Pact, a European pact for neutral datacenters by 2030. The goal: building a Cloud that enables sustainable and environmentally responsible innovation (French only).

That is why, facing such a crucial issue, 3DS OUTSCALE commits to working exclusively with trusted partners, such as Telehouse, one of our datacenter partners, themselves involved in a sustainable approach. Beyond energy consumption, the operator works on improving all of the datacenter’s lifecycle, from the equipments’ production to their usage.

While Making Data Security a Priority

However, with cyberattacks on the rise, the environmental aspect is far from being the first decision criteria. 1 out of 2 French companies fell victim to a cyber attack in 2022, according to the CESIN (Club des Experts de la Sécurité de l’Information et du Numérique) barometer, reminding the critical importance of data protection. A case in point is the ransomware attack incurred by the Centre Hospitalier Sud-Francilien (CHSF) in Corbeil-Essonnes in August 2022, which was strongly paralyzed for several days. Or the case of André-Mignot hospital in Versailles on December 3, 2022…

Particularly sensitive health data requires very strict conformity standards from a host: HDS certification (Health Data Hosting), SecNumCloud qualification, GDPR compliance and sovereignty (for protection from the enforcement of extraterritorial laws such as Cloud Act).

So many signs of trust that 3DS OUTSCALE services are offering. Security has been a key value in 3DS OUTSCALE’s DNA since its beginnings, over a decade ago. Our cloud infrastructure is SecNumCloud qualified by the ANSSI, and ISO 27001-27017-27018, HDS and TISAX certified. It is also important for us to rely on strategic suppliers [such as Telehouse] to be able to offer a real chain of trust between the customer, the cloud provider which is 3DS OUTSCALE, and the datacenter providers.

How to Prioritize both Security and Environmental Responsibility?

Security and environmental responsibility are not incompatible. But if customers are more and more concerned by environmental issues, the sole involvement of the Cloud provider is not sufficient to reduce the environmental footprint. All of the ecosystem (employees, suppliers, partners, customers…) must be involved to create a virtuous circle and lay the foundations of a strong trust along the technological chain.

The partnership between 3DS OUTSCALE and Telehouse perfectly illustrates this state of mind according to Sami Slim, General manager of Telehouse France: “3DS OUTSCALE has been working with Telehouse for many years, it is a trust-based collaboration. Actors like 3DS OUTSCALE drive us to take our security logic further. They challenge us on security and trust levels such as expected by their own customers, and we are compelled to adapt. Offering a new SecNumCloud qualified infrastructure has been a real challenge, but Telehouse was able to deliver, in due time, a space meeting the criteria of the SecNumCloud qualification defined by the ANSSI.

On the one hand, Telehouse proves itself as a trusted and well-known supplier, able to support 3DS OUTSCALE in its development strategy. On the other hand, 3DS OUTSCALE is an asset in our system approach because they push us to stay at the forefront of innovation.”

Shared responsibility

Datacenters have never played such a crucial role as they do today. The world of tomorrow will definitely be a connected world. And, as Sami Slim reminds us: “Each infrastructure choice is a choice for the planet.” 

Today, the task of Cloud operators is to lead the industry towards more responsibility, security, innovation, expertise and trust. At 3DS OUTSCALE, together with our ecosystem, we are ready to meet the challenge.

Learn more about the partnership between 3DS OUTSCALE and Telehouse and the security standards implemented in their datacenters!