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 one of a kind in conditions of corporation in the context of COVID-19. As soon as more, Atos, All over the world IT Husband or wife of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, correctly enabled hundreds of lovers to share the athletes’ experience by orchestrating and securing all the IT devices powering the party.

12 months on 12 months, Atos strives to decrease the environmental effects of the Olympic and Paralympic Games and has supported this by fully migrating all devices to the cloud. Atos has executed revolutionary strategies of functioning, extensively utilizing the most current technologies to control remotely all the tests, homologations, and rehearsals. In addition, relentless work has been deployed to scale down the range of bodily servers by approximately 50%. This new delivery design enabled to decrease vitality use, heat emanation, intensive components infrastructures, as perfectly as the range of staff members travelling to the host metropolis[one]

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Info & Figures on the Tokyo 2020 Olympic & Paralympic Games

• All vital programs ended up hosted 100% in the Atos cloud
  
• 878 functions in the Olympic and Paralympic Games plan with in close proximity to-instant transmission of benefits to lovers, journalists, and broadcasters
• Billions of viewers
  
• 200,000 hrs of technical tests
  
• Physical servers lowered by approximately 50% in comparison to earlier editions – operating from 250 servers in Rio 2016 to just around one hundred thirty in Tokyo 2020
• sixty seven million people on the official Olympic Games benefits webpage
  
• forty nine,510 volunteers accepted by way of the volunteer portal
  
• 535,000 accreditations issued – which also served as a secure official border entry doc into Japan

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At peak, Games devices hold the most vital private data in the environment. Atos secured the overall IT infrastructure of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, leveraging its experience in digital cybersecurity and utilizing real-time data examination resources. Its teams of cybersecurity gurus monitored devices and networks continually, from a Stability Operation Middle (SOC), combined with a Personal computer Stability Incident Reaction Workforce (CSIRT). They ended up functioning carefully with the Atos business and technology gurus of the Engineering Operations Middle.

“Tokyo 2020 ended up unprecedented Olympic Games, and it took an equally unprecedented work from all of us to make them transpire in a safe and secure method for all people. Atos has been actually instrumental in connecting, securing and digitally enabling the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 to all stakeholders around the world, whilst reducing the environmental effects of our IT operations. We are delighted to keep on to operate with a chief in the digital area, bringing innovation to the Olympic Games, and encouraging us to connect digitally with all our lovers all-around the environment.” explained Thomas Bach, President of the Intercontinental Olympic Committee (IOC).

“The Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games ended up historic, as athletes broke documents, opened minds and transformed lives. Becoming capable to inform that story of range and inclusion throughout the environment was very important, and the Atos cloud ensured that we could stay digitally linked with lovers, journalists and broadcasters. To do that safely and securely was particularly essential to us in Tokyo as we released WeThe15, which aims to finish discrimination in the direction of the one.two billion individuals with disabilities. We congratulate Atos for ensuring that the Paralympic Games ended up as large-carrying out in the IT back again-finish as they ended up on the area of enjoy.” explained Andrew Parsons, President of the Intercontinental Paralympic Committee (IPC).

Atos is actively supporting the marketing campaign #WeThe15 released by the Intercontinental Paralympic Committee (IPC), the biggest marketing campaign at any time of its variety concentrated on disability visibility and inclusion. The Group has prolonged its staff source team for men and women with disabilities and their allies and is fully commited to addressing inclusion as a significant induce.

“Like athletes, Atos gurus have been preparing for the party years in progress, with ambition and perseverance. When it arrives to the Olympic and Paralympic Games, there are no 2nd chances,” explained Elie Girard, Atos CEO. “Each and every edition of the Olympic and Paralympic Games brings alongside one another more and more linked spectators, and digital is more than at any time a central player.The experience of our teams manufactured it feasible to provide a flawless party, and to guarantee times of joy and emotion to the environment group. In these unprecedented instances, I am quite very pleased of the achievement of these Olympic and Paralympic Games, which ended up remarkable by their amazing resilience.”

Wanting forward to Beijing 2022 and Paris 2024

For the initial time in the background, the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games will acquire place only five months after the finish of the summer time edition – which always signifies a real preparing obstacle. The Atos teams are presently on web page in Beijing, eager to convey their innovation, dedication, and enthusiasm to the thriving corporation of the upcoming edition. Atos is also presently preparing actively for the Olympic and Paralympic Games 2024 which will be held in Paris.

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[one] 50% reduction of team travelling to support the Games in the Engineering Operation Middle in Tokyo.

About Atos

Atos is a world chief in digital transformation with one hundred and five,000 staff members and yearly earnings of around € eleven billion. European range one particular in cybersecurity, cloud and large-effectiveness computing, the Group delivers personalized finish-to-finish remedies for all industries in seventy one international locations. A pioneer in decarbonization expert services and items, Atos is fully commited to a secure and decarbonized digital for its shoppers. Atos operates underneath the brand names Atos and Atos|Syntel. Atos is a SE (Societas Europaea), stated on the Future 20 Paris Stock Index.

The purpose of Atos is to help design and style the upcoming of the information and facts space. Its experience and expert services support the progress of expertise, schooling and investigation in a multicultural strategy and contribute to the progress of scientific and technological excellence. Across the environment, the Group enables its clients and staff members, and members of societies at substantial to dwell, operate and develop sustainably, in a safe and secure information and facts space.

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