SITA and Orange Business Services are joining forces in the cloud

Managed cloud infrastructure to deliver secure and highly available cloud computing services to the air transport industry and to multinational enterprises around the globe.

SITA, the air transport industry IT specialist, and Orange Business Services, the leading global integrated communications service provider for businesses, have agreed to jointly build a global, high performance, managed cloud computing infrastructure.

Each partner will use this infrastructure to deliver their cloud services portfolio to their markets with added global reach, reliability and minimum latency.

highlights

six Tier III+ and Tier IV data centers on five continents seamlessly interconnected by Orange secured backbone: Atlanta, Frankfurt, Johannesburg, Singapore, Hong Kong and Sydney

a robust, versatile platform to support hybrid clouds, or combining cloud computing with legacy infrastructure, which is one of the most important requirements our customers have at this time

a platform to allow both SITA and Orange to provide flexible and high-performing cloud services to their customers quickly and efficiently

customer benefits

global, secure, and agile cloud computing services, initially available in the first quarter of 2012

shared expertise from two leaders in communications and IT

access to global services with minimal latency

versatility to support our customers transition to cloud-based services at their own pace. making the move to cloud a simple and safe one: our experts help our clients build a migration plan that suits their strategy and budget

To achieve the minimal latency required for cloud-based applications, we are continuously investing in our global network backbone. This year we are investing 750M euros in our global network, 50M euros more than 2010. Our backbone network capacity in emerging countries will increase by 20%, and we’ll extend native IP capillarity in emerging markets.

2011 marks the 10 year anniversary of our relationship with SITA. This agreement boosts our partnership and will help our customers make the move to secure and high-performing cloud-based services.