Orange has built a 16,000m² data center in Val-de-Reuil, France: stakes and opportunities.

The stakes around IT services are increasingly enormous, in terms of data generated, technologies involved, business opportunities and lives conditions improvements.

At Orange, to support this increasing demand in IT services, they focus on the

16,000m² data center in Val-de-Reuil, France, including 5,000 m² of computer room space.

This means it will be used to host data and services for Orange business customers and the general public, with the goal to accelerate the development of Orange’s cloud computing offers and to support the Group’s own IT transformation.
Henceforth the worldwide infrastructure for Orange data centers includes 16 sites in France and more than 50 around the world, representing an investment of more than 100 million euros.

Connectikpeople has observed that, this new generation data center is an innovative, energy efficient, resilient and highly- secure building.

About Orange

Orange is one of the world’s leading telecommunications operators with sales of 43.5 billion euros in 2012 and has 168,000 employees worldwide at 30 June 2013, including 103,000 employees in France. Present in 32 countries, the Group has a total customer base of more than 231 million customers at 30 June 2013, including 174 million mobile customers and 15 million fixed broadband customers worldwide. Orange is also a leading provider of global IT and telecommunication services to multinational companies, under the brand Orange Business Services.