Orange Business is moving 70 percent of its IT infrastructure to Bleu, the cloud environment that Capgemini and Orange are building together.
Orange Business is migrating 70 percent of its IT infrastructure to Blue cloud. Bleu delivers Microsoft services in an environment that addresses digital sovereignty requirements, especially for government and critical sectors. The company aims to simplify its infrastructure, create more flexibility, and strengthen security and control over data.
Hybrid cloud
Orange Business deliberately chooses a hybrid cloud strategy. The company analyzed more than 400 applications while considering data sensitivity. Highly regulated or sensitive environments are moving to Cloud Avenue, Orange’s private cloud solution. Other applications and datasets are going to Bleu, which combines public cloud functions with additional data safeguards.
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Bleu is currently being assessed according to the SecNumCloud 3.2 qualification, the strictest French and one of the strictest European standards for cloud security. The environment has already reached Milestone 1 in that process. Orange Business explicitly links its migration to those requirements for security, sovereignty, and compliance.
According to CEO Aliette Mousnier-Lompré, Orange Business wants to increase control over critical applications with this step, while continuing to leverage recent technology. The hybrid architecture should help customers better plan migrations and limit risks.
Sovereign cloud
The internal migration to Bleu should also serve as a reference for customer projects. Orange Business applies the same technical and organizational standards when guiding customers toward a sovereign cloud environment. This often involves organizations in sectors with strict regulations.
Partners, including software vendors, are encouraged to follow the same approach. This way, Orange Business aims to help build an ecosystem where applications and services can run within a sovereign cloud.
For customers, the strategy means they can choose between Bleu, other public clouds, and private cloud solutions like Cloud Avenue.