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

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

The Olympic and Paralympic Online games Tokyo 2020 had been distinctive in terms of organization in the context of COVID-19. As soon as additional, Atos, Around the world IT Companion of the Olympic and Paralympic Online games, properly enabled countless numbers of followers to share the athletes’ working experience by orchestrating and securing all the IT units at the rear of the party.

Yr on 12 months, Atos strives to lower the environmental impact of the Olympic and Paralympic Online games and has supported this by completely migrating all units to the cloud. Atos has implemented revolutionary methods of doing work, thoroughly utilizing the latest systems to deal with remotely all the testing, homologations, and rehearsals. In addition, relentless effort has been deployed to scale down the number of actual physical servers by virtually fifty%. This new shipping product enabled to lower energy usage, warmth emanation, intensive hardware infrastructures, as nicely as the number of personnel travelling to the host metropolis[1]

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Information & Figures on the Tokyo 2020 Olympic & Paralympic Online games

• All crucial apps had been hosted one hundred% in the Atos cloud
  
• 878 occasions in the Olympic and Paralympic Online games software with in close proximity to-quick transmission of success to followers, journalists, and broadcasters
• Billions of viewers
  
• two hundred,000 hours of complex testing
  
• Actual physical servers lowered by virtually fifty% compared to previous editions – operating from 250 servers in Rio 2016 to just over 130 in Tokyo 2020
• sixty seven million customers on the formal Olympic Online games success webpage
  
• forty nine,510 volunteers recognized by way of the volunteer portal
  
• 535,000 accreditations issued – which also served as a safe formal border entry doc into Japan

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At peak, Online games units maintain the most crucial private knowledge in the entire world. Atos secured the full IT infrastructure of the Olympic and Paralympic Online games, leveraging its expertise in digital cybersecurity and utilizing authentic-time knowledge examination resources. Its teams of cybersecurity specialists monitored units and networks continuously, from a Safety Procedure Heart (SOC), put together with a Personal computer Safety Incident Reaction Staff (CSIRT). They had been doing work intently with the Atos enterprise and technologies specialists of the Technological innovation Operations Heart.

“Tokyo 2020 had been unparalleled Olympic Online games, and it took an similarly unparalleled effort from all of us to make them materialize in a secure and safe fashion for everyone. Atos has been certainly instrumental in connecting, securing and digitally enabling the Olympic Online games Tokyo 2020 to all stakeholders around the globe, whilst lowering the environmental impact of our IT operations. We are delighted to continue on to perform with a chief in the digital field, bringing innovation to the Olympic Online games, and supporting us to join digitally with all our followers all-around the entire world.” said Thomas Bach, President of the Intercontinental Olympic Committee (IOC).

“The Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Online games had been historic, as athletes broke documents, opened minds and adjusted life. Becoming in a position to convey to that tale of range and inclusion throughout the entire world was very important, and the Atos cloud ensured that we could keep digitally connected with followers, journalists and broadcasters. To do that safely and securely was notably vital to us in Tokyo as we launched WeThe15, which aims to finish discrimination in direction of the 1.two billion persons with disabilities. We congratulate Atos for making sure that the Paralympic Online games had been as large-undertaking in the IT again-finish as they had been on the field of play.” said Andrew Parsons, President of the Intercontinental Paralympic Committee (IPC).

Atos is actively supporting the campaign #WeThe15 launched by the Intercontinental Paralympic Committee (IPC), the major campaign ever of its variety targeted on disability visibility and inclusion. The Group has extended its worker useful resource team for individuals with disabilities and their allies and is fully commited to addressing inclusion as a significant result in.

“Like athletes, Atos specialists have been making ready for the party years in advance, with ambition and willpower. When it comes to the Olympic and Paralympic Online games, there are no next possibilities,” said Elie Girard, Atos CEO. “Every single edition of the Olympic and Paralympic Online games provides collectively additional and additional connected spectators, and digital is additional than ever a central participant.The expertise of our teams manufactured it feasible to produce a flawless party, and to make certain times of joy and emotion to the entire world local community. In these unparalleled situations, I am extremely happy of the good results of these Olympic and Paralympic Online games, which had been extraordinary by their incredible resilience.”

Looking forward to Beijing 2022 and Paris 2024

For the initially time in the record, the Olympic and Paralympic Wintertime Online games will get place only 5 months following the finish of the summer season edition – which essentially signifies a authentic planning challenge. The Atos teams are now on web page in Beijing, keen to carry their innovation, determination, and passion to the successful organization of the following edition. Atos is also now making ready actively for the Olympic and Paralympic Online games 2024 which will be held in Paris.

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[1] fifty% reduction of staff travelling to help the Online games in the Technological innovation Procedure Heart in Tokyo.

About Atos

Atos is a world wide chief in digital transformation with one zero five,000 personnel and once-a-year earnings of over € eleven billion. European number one in cybersecurity, cloud and large-overall performance computing, the Group presents personalized finish-to-finish remedies for all industries in 71 international locations. A pioneer in decarbonization providers and merchandise, Atos is fully commited to a safe and decarbonized digital for its purchasers. Atos operates underneath the makes Atos and Atos|Syntel. Atos is a SE (Societas Europaea), stated on the Future 20 Paris Inventory Index.

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