Here is why EDF chooses Bull and Osiatis to deploy and run one of the biggest private cloud-based infrastructures with Microsoft technology.

We talk about a project which aims to renovate and unify all EDF collaborative and email solutions for the whole group.

To improve the experience of 160,000 users, Connectikpeople observes that, the Bull-Osiatis consortium will be providing the

following services:

• Engineering and implementation of a private cloud infrastructure
• Business continuity for the current solution
• Migration to Microsoft solutions
• Secure running of these unified solutions and management via a service catalogue, on a pay-per-use basis.

Connectikpeople recalls that, these infrastructures will be hosted at two of EDF Group's data centers; which include 68 bullion servers, 400 virtual machines and 1000 TB of storage. In addition, the solution will be monitored and administrated remotely from Bull and Osiatis' secure service facilities, with a minimum 5-year contract.

About Osiatis (now Econocom-Osiatis)

Osiatis, one of France's leading digital service companies, is a recognised leader in infrastructure services (architecture consulting, tools and cloud transformation engineering, production and work environment outsourcing, critical systems and networks maintenance), and in the applications services market, as a specialist in infrastructure-related solutions (portals, collaboration, roaming, BI, etc.).

As a result of the alliance between Econocom and Osiatis Groups, their Service activities, which have a combined workforce of almost 7,000 in 11 countries, are now combined under the Econocom-Osiatis brand.

About Bull

Bull is a leader in secure mission-critical digital systems. The Group is dedicated to developing and implementing solutions where computing power and security serve to optimize its customers' information systems, to support their business.

Bull operates in high added-value markets including computer simulation, Cloud computing and 'computing power plants', outsourcing and security.

Currently Bull employs around 9,300 people across more than 50 countries, with over 700 staff totally focused on R&D. In 2012, Bull recorded revenues of €1.3 billion.