Atos’ cloud orchestration success behind Olympic and Paralympic Games Tokyo 2020

Tokyo, Japan, and Paris, France – September 29, 2021

The Olympic and Paralympic Games Tokyo 2020 ended up unique in terms of business in the context of COVID-19. The moment extra, Atos, Throughout the world IT Husband or wife of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, productively enabled 1000’s of lovers to share the athletes’ knowledge by orchestrating and securing all the IT units powering the occasion.

Year on yr, Atos strives to lower the environmental effects of the Olympic and Paralympic Games and has supported this by completely migrating all units to the cloud. Atos has carried out ground breaking means of operating, extensively making use of the most recent technologies to control remotely all the screening, homologations, and rehearsals. In addition, relentless effort and hard work has been deployed to scale down the variety of physical servers by approximately fifty%. This new delivery model enabled to lower vitality consumption, heat emanation, intense hardware infrastructures, as effectively as the variety of workforce travelling to the host metropolis[one]

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Specifics & Figures on the Tokyo 2020 Olympic & Paralympic Games

• All significant purposes ended up hosted 100% in the Atos cloud
  
• 878 functions in the Olympic and Paralympic Games system with in the vicinity of-quick transmission of effects to lovers, journalists, and broadcasters
• Billions of viewers
  
• two hundred,000 hours of specialized screening
  
• Actual physical servers lowered by approximately fifty% in comparison to former editions – running from 250 servers in Rio 2016 to just about one hundred thirty in Tokyo 2020
• sixty seven million end users on the formal Olympic Games effects webpage
  
• 49,510 volunteers approved as a result of the volunteer portal
  
• 535,000 accreditations issued – which also served as a safe formal border entry document into Japan

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At peak, Games units hold the most significant individual knowledge in the globe. Atos secured the total IT infrastructure of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, leveraging its skills in digital cybersecurity and making use of actual-time knowledge evaluation equipment. Its groups of cybersecurity experts monitored units and networks consistently, from a Protection Operation Heart (SOC), blended with a Laptop Protection Incident Reaction Crew (CSIRT). They ended up operating intently with the Atos organization and technologies experts of the Engineering Functions Heart.

“Tokyo 2020 ended up unparalleled Olympic Games, and it took an similarly unparalleled effort and hard work from all of us to make them transpire in a safe and sound and safe fashion for all people. Atos has been definitely instrumental in connecting, securing and digitally enabling the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 to all stakeholders all over the world, even though reducing the environmental effects of our IT functions. We are delighted to keep on to get the job done with a leader in the digital field, bringing innovation to the Olympic Games, and encouraging us to hook up digitally with all our lovers all-around the globe.” claimed Thomas Bach, President of the Worldwide Olympic Committee (IOC).

“The Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games ended up historic, as athletes broke documents, opened minds and transformed life. Remaining in a position to explain to that tale of variety and inclusion throughout the globe was very important, and the Atos cloud ensured that we could continue to be digitally linked with lovers, journalists and broadcasters. To do that safely and securely and securely was especially significant to us in Tokyo as we launched WeThe15, which aims to end discrimination toward the one.2 billion people with disabilities. We congratulate Atos for making certain that the Paralympic Games ended up as superior-doing in the IT back again-end as they ended up on the field of engage in.” claimed Andrew Parsons, President of the Worldwide Paralympic Committee (IPC).

Atos is actively supporting the campaign #WeThe15 launched by the Worldwide Paralympic Committee (IPC), the most significant campaign ever of its kind concentrated on incapacity visibility and inclusion. The Group has extended its employee source group for persons with disabilities and their allies and is committed to addressing inclusion as a important lead to.

“Like athletes, Atos experts have been getting ready for the occasion years in progress, with ambition and dedication. When it arrives to the Olympic and Paralympic Games, there are no 2nd possibilities,” claimed Elie Girard, Atos CEO. “Every version of the Olympic and Paralympic Games provides alongside one another extra and extra linked spectators, and digital is extra than ever a central player.The skills of our groups created it feasible to supply a flawless occasion, and to be certain moments of joy and emotion to the globe neighborhood. In these unparalleled moments, I am incredibly proud of the good results of these Olympic and Paralympic Games, which ended up exceptional by their amazing resilience.”

Looking forward to Beijing 2022 and Paris 2024

For the initial time in the record, the Olympic and Paralympic Wintertime Games will take area only five months soon after the end of the summer version – which automatically signifies a actual planning problem. The Atos groups are now on website in Beijing, keen to provide their innovation, determination, and enthusiasm to the productive business of the next version. Atos is also now getting ready actively for the Olympic and Paralympic Games 2024 which will be held in Paris.

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[one] fifty% reduction of personnel travelling to assist the Games in the Engineering Operation Heart in Tokyo.

About Atos

Atos is a global leader in digital transformation with one zero five,000 workforce and once-a-year revenue of about € eleven billion. European variety one in cybersecurity, cloud and superior-performance computing, the Group supplies tailored end-to-end options for all industries in 71 international locations. A pioneer in decarbonization companies and products and solutions, Atos is committed to a safe and decarbonized digital for its clientele. Atos operates underneath the brands Atos and Atos|Syntel. Atos is a SE (Societas Europaea), stated on the Future 20 Paris Inventory Index.

The purpose of Atos is to enable structure the potential of the details house. Its skills and companies assist the improvement of understanding, training and research in a multicultural method and add to the improvement of scientific and technological excellence. Across the globe, the Group permits its customers and workforce, and customers of societies at substantial to live, get the job done and create sustainably, in a safe and sound and safe details house.

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