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Sovereign AI and sovereign cloud: how can public-sector projects be accelerated?

OUTSCALE — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 12:56:55 +0000

At OUTSCALE EXPERIENCES 2026, Mireille Mege, Public Sector Customer Success Manager at OUTSCALE (Dassault Systèmes), and Clara Pascolo, Chief Operating Officer at SMLB Next, explained how Nuage Public simplifies public-sector access to sovereign cloud, drawing on its partnership with OUTSCALE and the generative AI bundles from Mistral available on the OUTSCALE Marketplace.

For public administrations and parapublic organizations, public cloud provides a practical entry point to secure, compliant and scalable environments capable of adapting to business needs.

The success of these projects relies on a structured approach: identifying a relevant initial use case, ensuring the protection of sensitive data, selecting the appropriate level of support and anticipating industrialization from the earliest stages.

Nuage Public as a starting point

The UGAP Nuage Public marketplace provides access to cloud services for more than 26,000 public- and parapublic-sector beneficiaries. It enables organizations to define their needs, specify their technical and regulatory requirements, and then be directed to cloud providers capable of meeting them.

This approach facilitates the launch of artificial-intelligence projects, often in the form of a proof of concept. It responds to two main trends. Some organizations want to implement the Cloud au Centre doctrine promoted by DINUM. Others want to use AI in a more secure and controlled environment.

The Nuage Public marketplace combines several factors that are important for public procurement: negotiated prices, a simplified process, guidance toward relevant offerings and shorter deployment times. In some cases, a project can start in less than a month, while the purchase order can be processed very quickly when the requirements are clearly defined.

Public-sector priorities

Organizations launching a sovereign-AI project generally have three main expectations.

Controlling data location

The first question concerns where data is located and how it is processed. Users want to prevent sensitive data from being transferred to environments they do not control. This concern applies in particular to administrative data, health information, identity documents, financial data and defense-related information.

Sovereignty therefore becomes a central decision criterion. Data must be processed and stored in an environment that meets the organization’s requirements, with particular attention paid to access, permissions and the platform’s operating conditions.

Reducing shadow-AI risks

Employees may be tempted to use AI services directly available online, particularly to query language models with professional information. This practice creates a risk of losing control over the data entered and where it is sent.

A sovereign-AI environment provides users with a controlled framework. The organization can define authorized services, manage access and encourage the use of models hosted in an environment that meets its security requirements.

Preparing for industrial deployment

A project often begins with a limited use case. Once the initial results are positive, other needs emerge. The organization may then want to analyze more documents, automate additional steps or use several models.

The selected architecture must therefore be able to evolve. A scalable offering facilitates the transition from proof of concept to production and then to multiple use cases. This industrialization capability must be considered from the outset to avoid having to redesign the entire technical environment later.

Three AI project offerings

Public-sector organizations can choose between several approaches. The right option depends on the desired level of control, the number of models required, the available resources and the expected level of support.

Consuming compute resources

The first use case consists of providing the resources required to run language models. The organization consumes compute including CPU, RAM and GPU and then uses the models at its disposal.

This approach offers significant technical freedom. It is suitable for teams capable of deploying and administering their own environment. However, they must manage several components themselves, including resource configuration, Nvidia drivers and the components required to run the models.

Deploying a Mistral bundle

The second use case is based on Mistral bundles. This offering provides a ready-to-use solution, with a Mistral model deployed in a tenant dedicated to the customer. Deployment takes place through the Marketplace and can be completed quickly after the order has been placed.

The customer receives a directly accessible endpoint to begin its work. Mistral models are supplied with their licenses, and the environment is dedicated to the organization. Data therefore remains within the designated environment in France, in accordance with the characteristics of the offering.

The bundles offer unlimited token consumption. However, capacity remains determined by the available hardware resources, particularly the number of GPUs associated with the model and the use case. Depending on requirements, one or two GPUs may be offered.

This option is especially suitable for organizations that want to use a language model without managing the entire technical stack themselves. It reduces initial complexity and accelerates access to an operational solution.

Building a Mistral AI Studio platform

The Mistral AI Studio platform is designed for projects requiring multiple models and several usage scenarios. It may be appropriate when an administration wants to analyze documents, perform optical character recognition, verify information or cross-check a form against an identity document.

In this configuration, the offering is built together with the customer. Use cases are analyzed in advance to select the appropriate models. It is generally advisable to begin with two or three clearly defined use cases and then design a coherent solution around those needs.

This approach creates a customized and scalable environment. Mistral also supports the customer in tuning the solution and adapting it to the identified use cases. Additional support may be provided for Kubernetes-related operations, including model updates and platform upgrades.

Toward hybrid model consumption

Organizations may need several model families depending on their use cases. A Mistral model may be suitable for one scenario, while a Llama model or another open-source model may be more effective for another task.

This is leading toward hybrid model consumption. The stated objective for the first half of 2027 is to offer an AI Factory capable of adapting GPU consumption to the intensity of the use cases and the models being used.

Such an approach should make it possible to allocate resources according to actual needs. It opens the way to more flexible use of AI infrastructure, with greater adaptability across models, workloads and expected performance levels.

Moving from proof of concept to production

Choose a manageable first use case

The choice of the first use case influences the rest of the project. An organization benefits from starting with a clearly defined need that is useful enough to produce measurable results and simple enough to be mastered quickly.

This initial stage helps identify technical constraints, security requirements, support needs and monitoring arrangements. It also provides valuable feedback before AI is extended to more complex processes.

The approach can follow three priorities:

select a concrete and relatively simple use case;
measure results and resource consumption;
prepare for expansion to other use cases.

Organize security workshops

Security workshops play an important role in projects involving several models or sensitive data. They help define authorized users, roles, access rights and the conditions governing use of the platform.

This preparation should take place before operational deployment. It helps establish a trusted framework and align the technical environment with the organization’s internal security requirements.

Security also concerns project governance. Teams must know what data may be processed, by which users and under what conditions. These rules facilitate adoption and limit uncontrolled use.

Plan for operational support

The required level of support depends on the selected offering and the skills available internally. An organization consuming compute resources directly must have the capabilities needed to administer its environment. A turnkey solution reduces this burden. A multi-model platform requires closer collaboration around use cases, models and their evolution.

Support may also cover Kubernetes operations, model updates, version upgrades and platform optimization. This becomes particularly important when the solution moves from experimentation to production.

Managing costs and environmental impact

Controlling consumption is a major issue in public procurement. The available budget must be considered alongside the resources used, including GPUs, tokens and other cloud components.

Monthly monitoring makes it possible to identify resources that have been ordered but are seldom used, and then adjust the environment. This consumption review also helps prepare for project expansion using actual data rather than initial estimates.

FinOps provides a framework for financial management. It makes it possible to compare deployed resources with observed usage and arbitrate between performance, sovereignty, cost, support and scalability.

Green IT complements this analysis. A carbon calculator can be used to track changes in the footprint associated with resource consumption. It may reveal overconsumption caused by virtual machines left running during inactive periods or by resources being deployed without a corresponding operational need.

Financial and environmental consumption monitoring should begin in the early stages of the project. It promotes more precise resource usage and supports decisions related to scaling.

Balancing sovereignty, performance and scalability

The choice of an AI environment cannot be based on a single criterion. Organizations must consider data location, security, expected compliance, performance, cost, support quality and scalability at the same time.

Sovereignty is particularly important when data is sensitive. In this context, an environment located in France and designed to meet security requirements provides an appropriate framework for public- and parapublic-sector projects.

Performance must then be assessed according to the use case. A model intended for document analysis does not necessarily require the same resources as an environment running multiple models and several simultaneous processes.

Finally, scalability must be incorporated into the decision. A solution suitable for a proof of concept may become insufficient as the number of users, documents or use cases increases. The initial choice should therefore preserve the possibility of gradual industrialization.

Conclusion

Sovereign AI on public cloud provides public-sector organizations with a practical framework for experimenting with, securing and industrializing their use of artificial intelligence. The Nuage Public marketplace simplifies access to cloud providers, cloud offerings and conditions suited to public procurement.

The most effective approach is to start with a manageable use case, secure access and data, monitor consumption and then prepare for expansion to multiple models and scenarios. Compute-resource offerings, Mistral bundles and the Mistral AI Studio platform make it possible to adapt the level of freedom and support to the project’s objectives.

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AntemetA Protect Veritas: a Sovereign Data Backup and Recovery Solution, available on OUTSCALE Marketplace

Fatiha Arjdal — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 11:02:21 +0000

OUTSCALE Marketplace offers public and private organizations a one-stop shop for solutions hosted on a SecNumCloud 3.2 qualified region, selected for their high level of performance and security.

With AntemetA Protect Verita,s available on OUTSCALE Marketplace, organizations not only benefit from the power of a backup solution based on one of the leading data management solutions, but also from the their data being hosted in a SecNumCloud 3.2 qualified region, ensuring compliance with the highest market standards regarding data security.

Discover AntemetA and the AntemetA Protect Veritas solution with Stéphane Colin, Product Manager.

AntemetA on OUTSCALE Marketplace: Convergence of Cloud Sovereignty and Data Security

-Could you please introduce your company and your solution?

-AntemetA is above all an expert in infrastructure and data protection. For over 25 years, we have been deploying/supporting data protection solutions in collaboration with our partner Veritas.

We perform operational maintenance activities, conduct business continuity tests, and support our clients in managing cyber crisis, from localized incidents in production to complete business continuity operations.

For over 15 years, we have been responsible for operating and proper functioning of Veritas NetBackup backup infrastructures, as well as our clients’ comprehensive infrastructures, regardless of the location of their data: on-premises, in a private cloud, a public cloud, or a SaaS environment.

In summary, AntemetA positions itself as a legitimate trusted third party (thanks to its experience) in its ability to guarantee the protection of its clients’ data and to ensure their recovery in case of a localized incident or even a complete recovery following a business continuity plan.

-Why is it important for your clients to have a solution available in a SecNumCloud qualified region?

-For years, we have been advocating for Sovereign Cloud. Despite the challenging task of associating Trust and Sovereignty, AntemetA has invested in its own infrastructures, ISO 27001, ISA 3402 and HDS certified, and has even built a Restricted Distribution Cloud for very specific needs.

However, we are consistently challenged (and rightfully so) with questions like “Are you SecNumCloud qualified?” or “Are you ready to move towards its European counterpart, EUCS (the European Cloud Services Certification scheme)?”

We continue our investment, upholding our strong convictions, advocating for the added value and legitimacy of our managed services (such as backup, crisis management, and business continuity)… and I can state unequivocally that this goes along with a SecNumCloud qualified region.

-Why did you choose OUTSCALE Marketplace?

-Simply because OUTSCALE offers one of the best SecNumCloud qualified services on the market.

Furthermore, we received extensive support throughout the industrialization phase of our Veritas NetBackup backup services in the OUTSCALE Marketplace, enabling its rapid integration.

Discover the AntemetA Protect solution powered by VERITAS and OUTSCALE on the OUTSCALE Marketplace.

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VIANEO, a Business Design solution available on OUTSCALE Marketplace

Fatiha Arjdal — Thu, 23 Nov 2023 11:34:40 +0000

OUTSCALE Marketplace gives public and private organizations access to a one-stop shop bringing together companies and trusted solutions selected for their level of performance and security.

Companies such as VIANEO, a SaaS – provider, whose solution is hosted in the OUTSCALE SecNumCloud region.

Imagine a platform where organizations, whether public or private, can bring their teams together in real-time to plan, act, and execute innovative projects. VIANEO has taken on the challenge by offering a unique collaboration experience.

Discover VIANEO and its Business Design platform with its CEO, Séverine Herlin:

VIANEO, the shortest path from idea to value creation

Could you introduce VIANEO?

VIANEO offers a complete and digitalized Innovation Management solution. We enable all kinds of organizations to build their future through the design and validation of new business in line with market needs.

How does your solution address your clients’ challenges?

In today’s highly complex and uncertain world, no organization can afford to rest on its laurels. It must create new offerings: it’s vital. But how do you identify the offering that will create value and secure the organization’s future? How do you evaluate it step by step and lead it to success?

With its SaaS platform, which provides exclusive access to its digitalized business design methodology, VIANEO offers a unique answer on how to identify and validate value-creating projects that drive your strategic transformation. In a nutshell, VIANEO is the shortest path from idea to value creation.

Why did you choose to join OUTSCALE Marketplace? What is the value of this partnership for your clients?

The projects hosted on our platform are treasures to be kept secure, so it was crucial for us to entrust this data to a trusted partner such as OUTSCALE. Our clients’ data is hosted in data centers located in France, and furthermore, OUTSCALE has certifications and qualifications that meet the highest security standards, including a Cloud region qualified SecNumCloud by ANSSI where our clients’ data is stored.

Being a member of OUTSCALE Marketplace allows us to build high-quality synergies between the various solutions available on the Marketplace for our clients.

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Our ecosystem is key to sustainable growth

Dina O'Reilly — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 15:05:06 +0000

“There can be no sustainable growth without the support of the right ecosystem of partners and the relevant community of experts,” begins Jérôme Sandrini, OUTSCALE’s Chief Revenue Officer, during CLOUD DAYS plenary session, before going on to describe the progress of projects aimed at enriching our ecosystem, a vital step to pursue our joint growth and success.

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.

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The European Commission supports the European Cloud with DOME project

Raja Chiky — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 15:44:45 +0000

In an increasingly interconnected and technology-dependent world, Cloud is proving to be an essential element for digital innovation and business transformation. Aware of this reality, the European Commission is taking action to promote and develop the use of Cloud and Edge Computing within the European Union. The Commission’s Directorate‑General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology is responsible for EU policy on the single digital market, network security, digital science and innovation, and sustainable and inclusive growth in Europe.

Tomas Petru’s speech at CLOUD DAYS 2023, the event by 3DS OUTSCALE held on June 13, highlighted the most significant actions undertaken by the European Commission in this field, as well as the DOME project, an ambitious initiative aiming to create a unique European marketplace for Cloud and Edge services.

The European Commission’s initiatives for Cloud and Edge Computing

Representative of the European Commission’s DG CNECT, and more specifically of the Cloud Software Policy Unit, Tomas Petru shared the major Cloud and Edge Computing projects with the visitors of CLOUD DAYS 2023.

“Europe’s digital strategy is currently guided by the Digital Decade Policy Program. The program itself pursues two key targets to be achieved by the year 2030 in the area of Cloud and Edge technology. For Cloud, the goal is to increase the adoption of advanced Cloud services by European businesses up to 75% as compared to the current 40 or 41%. For Edge computing, it’s the deployment of 10,000 highly energy-efficient Edge nodes.”

Among the various means of achieving these goals, there are three main types of action currently implemented by the European Commission:

Regulatory: These include ongoing negotiations on the Data Act, the EUCS (European Union Cybersecurity Strategy), and the “EU Cloud Rulebook”. These efforts aim to create a regulatory framework to guide and secure the development and use of Cloud services in Europe.

Organizational: Tomas Petru mentioned in particular the European Alliance for Industrial Data, Edge and Cloud, of which OUTSCALE is a member and where we play an active role.

Funding: The European Commission funds various programs to support Cloud and Edge research and deployment. These include the Horizon Europe program for research, the Connecting Europe Facility – Digital program for digital infrastructure, and the Digital Europe Program for the deployment of digital services. In 2021, for example, a 20 million euro grant has been awarded to a consortium of 38 participants, including OUTSCALE, to support the creation of a European Cloud marketplace (the DOME project).

“OUTSCALE is very well positioned to contribute, as a partner, as a consortium member to a successful delivery of DOME. And for that reason, we at the European Commission are also very happy to have OUTSCALE on board,” Tomas Petru

DOME, the European Cloud marketplace project

The DOME project aims at reducing Europe’s dependence on foreign Cloud service providers by promoting the development of a sovereign and competitive European infrastructure.

The future European marketplace offers a single platform enabling European businesses and organizations to access a wide range of Cloud services, such as storage, computing, data analysis and resource management. By facilitating collaboration between the various Cloud players in Europe, the DOME project promotes a more robust and secure European Cloud ecosystem, and therefore innovation and creation of jobs in the field of digital technologies.

In the video above, you’ll find three main “facets or components” of this future marketplace.

The first is its distributed nature. It is a federative marketplace, where services will be not only available on the marketplace, but also on other marketplaces connected or federated to DOME, such as OUTSCALE Marketplace.

The marketplace will also have mediation and transaction functions that go beyond a simple catalog of services.

Then, the marketplace is not only a curated catalogue of services like it is very often the case with national Cloud marketplaces, but also has functionalities such as brokerage and transaction.

The final point is the curation of services. “We need to ensure that the services available on DOME comply with the highest standards in terms of security, data protection and energy efficiency. For this reason, an automated and continuous compliance verification mechanism will be implemented on Dome,” shares Tomas Petru.

“OUTSCALE is very well positioned to contribute, as a partner, as a consortium member to a successful delivery of DOME. And for that reason, we at the European Commission are also very happy to have OUTSCALE on board.”

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