High Performance Cloud offer in France: Numericable Group and IBM’s SoftLayer pave their way.

Already almost encumbered, the Cloud market in France is henceforth enriched by a new offering: IBM and Completel, a Numericable Group announced the signing of an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) contract, with the goal to deploy the Very High Speed ​​Cloud and thereby strengthening their presence among business customers.

Connectikpeople.co observes that, through this agreement, IBM and Numericable Group will serve public and private companies, including small and medium enterprises and industries (SME/SMI), agile, efficient and secure solutions, integrating

Completel's network infrastructure and IBM's SoftLayer Cloud Computing.

About Numericable Group and Completel:

Numericable Group is the only major cable operator in France with its very high speed fiber infrastructure, operating in the B2C, B2B and Wholesales segments. Boasting highly advanced technology and relying on a strong infrastructure which operates as a single network, the Group is now the leader in the emerging ultra-fast broadband market in France, with a share of 58% (only 6% of French households had internet access high speed broadband in 2012). On the B2C segment, the group operates under the Numericable brand, which offers a wide range of products and services for its customers: pay TV, very high broadband Internet access and mobile & fixed telephony offers. On the B2B segment, the group operates under the brand Completel, which is the leading alternative operator in terms of FTTO network (Fiber To The Office). In 2012, the group achieved a combined turnover of € 1.3 billion. www.numericable.com

About IBM Cloud Computing

IBM is the global leader in cloud with an unmatched portfolio of open cloud solutions that help clients to think, build or tap into it. No other company has the ability to bring together unique industry knowledge and unmatched cloud capabilities, that have already helped more than 30,000 clients around the world. Today, IBM has more than 100 cloud SaaS solutions, thousands of experts with deep industry knowledge helping clients transform and a network of 40 data centers worldwide.  

Since 2007, IBM has invested more than $7 billion in 16 acquisitions to accelerate its cloud initiatives and build a high value cloud portfolio. IBM holds 1,560 cloud patents focused on driving innovation. In fact, IBM for the 21st consecutive year topped the annual list of US patent leaders. IBM processes more the 5.5M client transactions daily through IBM's public cloud. IBM expects to achieve $7 billion in annual cloud revenue by 2015. For more information about cloud offerings from IBM, visit http://www.ibm.com/cloud. Follow us on Twitter at @IBMcloud and on our blog at http://www.thoughtsoncloud.com.