Capgemini and OVHcloud have joined forces to address the cloud transformation needs of public and private organizations. The global alliance partnership combines the power OVHcloud’s next-gen cloud solutions with Capgemini’s experience in data protection, security, AI and data analytics, applications, cloud managed services and cloud native development.

The combined expertise will help organizations create secure cloud infrastructure with internationally recognized levels of security.

Together, they intend to build complete sovereign cloud solutions in the context of the European Alliance on Industrial Data and Cloud and the Important Project of Common European Interest (IPCEI) on Cloud Infrastructure and Services due to be launched in 2021.

The solution is also aimed at promoting open source software and leverage GAIA-X standards on cloud federation, to allow interoperability, portability, trust, and transparency across infrastructure, applications and data.

The global alliance partnership will notably allow to enable the development of European data spaces that bring together public and private players to generate value from data.

Moreover, OVHcloud and Capgemini will work together to enable a sustainable use of cloud services. This will include ensuring their common solutions strive towards carbon neutrality by optimizing usage of resources according to client needs, promoting a more energy efficient supply chain, managing infrastructure and hardware lifecycles and favoring a more local mix of energy sources.