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

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

The Olympic and Paralympic Video games Tokyo 2020 have been exclusive in conditions of group in the context of COVID-19. The moment a lot more, Atos, Globally IT Partner of the Olympic and Paralympic Video games, successfully enabled hundreds of followers to share the athletes’ knowledge by orchestrating and securing all the IT programs driving the event.

12 months on year, Atos strives to minimize the environmental affect of the Olympic and Paralympic Video games and has supported this by thoroughly migrating all programs to the cloud. Atos has executed modern means of doing the job, thoroughly utilizing the most recent technologies to regulate remotely all the tests, homologations, and rehearsals. In addition, relentless energy has been deployed to scale down the number of bodily servers by virtually fifty%. This new supply product enabled to minimize electrical power intake, heat emanation, intense hardware infrastructures, as well as the number of personnel travelling to the host city[one]

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Details & Figures on the Tokyo 2020 Olympic & Paralympic Video games

• All important applications have been hosted one hundred% in the Atos cloud
  
• 878 gatherings in the Olympic and Paralympic Video games plan with close to-instant transmission of outcomes to followers, journalists, and broadcasters
• Billions of viewers
  
• 200,000 hrs of technical tests
  
• Bodily servers decreased by virtually fifty% in contrast to past editions – running from 250 servers in Rio 2016 to just over a hundred thirty in Tokyo 2020
• sixty seven million people on the formal Olympic Video games outcomes webpage
  
• 49,510 volunteers acknowledged as a result of the volunteer portal
  
• 535,000 accreditations issued – which also served as a protected formal border entry document into Japan

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At peak, Video games programs keep the most important particular data in the entire world. Atos secured the full IT infrastructure of the Olympic and Paralympic Video games, leveraging its know-how in digital cybersecurity and utilizing authentic-time data analysis equipment. Its groups of cybersecurity specialists monitored programs and networks consistently, from a Stability Operation Middle (SOC), put together with a Personal computer Stability Incident Reaction Group (CSIRT). They have been doing the job carefully with the Atos organization and engineering specialists of the Technological know-how Functions Middle.

“Tokyo 2020 have been unprecedented Olympic Video games, and it took an equally unprecedented energy from all of us to make them take place in a secure and protected manner for everyone. Atos has been genuinely instrumental in connecting, securing and digitally enabling the Olympic Video games Tokyo 2020 to all stakeholders worldwide, while decreasing the environmental affect of our IT functions. We are delighted to carry on to function with a chief in the digital discipline, bringing innovation to the Olympic Video games, and helping us to link digitally with all our followers about the entire world.” stated Thomas Bach, President of the Intercontinental Olympic Committee (IOC).

“The Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Video games have been historic, as athletes broke records, opened minds and adjusted lives. Remaining capable to tell that tale of variety and inclusion throughout the entire world was essential, and the Atos cloud ensured that we could keep digitally related with followers, journalists and broadcasters. To do that safely and securely was specifically critical to us in Tokyo as we introduced WeThe15, which aims to conclusion discrimination towards the one.two billion folks with disabilities. We congratulate Atos for making sure that the Paralympic Video games have been as significant-carrying out in the IT back-conclusion as they have been on the discipline of participate in.” stated Andrew Parsons, President of the Intercontinental Paralympic Committee (IPC).

Atos is actively supporting the marketing campaign #WeThe15 introduced by the Intercontinental Paralympic Committee (IPC), the greatest marketing campaign ever of its variety centered on disability visibility and inclusion. The Group has prolonged its worker resource group for men and women with disabilities and their allies and is dedicated to addressing inclusion as a major cause.

“Like athletes, Atos specialists have been getting ready for the event decades in progress, with ambition and resolve. When it arrives to the Olympic and Paralympic Video games, there are no next prospects,” stated Elie Girard, Atos CEO. “Each individual version of the Olympic and Paralympic Video games provides together a lot more and a lot more related spectators, and digital is a lot more than ever a central participant.The know-how of our groups produced it possible to supply a flawless event, and to guarantee times of pleasure and emotion to the entire world local community. In these unprecedented situations, I am quite very pleased of the achievements of these Olympic and Paralympic Video games, which have been remarkable by their remarkable resilience.”

Seeking forward to Beijing 2022 and Paris 2024

For the initial time in the background, the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Video games will acquire place only five months soon after the conclusion of the summertime version – which always signifies a authentic preparation challenge. The Atos groups are presently on site in Beijing, keen to convey their innovation, determination, and passion to the profitable group of the upcoming version. Atos is also presently getting ready actively for the Olympic and Paralympic Video games 2024 which will be held in Paris.

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[one] fifty% reduction of employees travelling to guidance the Video games in the Technological know-how Operation Middle in Tokyo.

About Atos

Atos is a global chief in digital transformation with one zero five,000 personnel and yearly profits of over € eleven billion. European number a person in cybersecurity, cloud and significant-functionality computing, the Group gives tailor-made conclusion-to-conclusion answers for all industries in 71 international locations. A pioneer in decarbonization services and goods, Atos is dedicated to a protected and decarbonized digital for its clients. Atos operates below the brands Atos and Atos|Syntel. Atos is a SE (Societas Europaea), mentioned on the Subsequent twenty Paris Inventory Index.

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