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

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

The Olympic and Paralympic Game titles Tokyo 2020 ended up distinctive in phrases of corporation in the context of COVID-19. When much more, Atos, Worldwide IT Companion of the Olympic and Paralympic Online games, properly enabled hundreds of admirers to share the athletes’ experience by orchestrating and securing all the IT units powering the occasion.

Year on 12 months, Atos strives to minimize the environmental impact of the Olympic and Paralympic Online games and has supported this by absolutely migrating all programs to the cloud. Atos has executed modern approaches of working, extensively using the latest systems to control remotely all the testing, homologations, and rehearsals. In addition, relentless energy has been deployed to scale down the range of physical servers by just about 50%. This new supply model enabled to decrease energy intake, warmth emanation, intense hardware infrastructures, as well as the amount of personnel travelling to the host town[1]

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

• All significant purposes had been hosted 100% in the Atos cloud
  
• 878 activities in the Olympic and Paralympic Video games plan with in the vicinity of-instant transmission of benefits to admirers, journalists, and broadcasters
• Billions of viewers
  
• 200,000 hours of specialized screening
  
• Physical servers minimized by approximately 50% as opposed to past editions – operating from 250 servers in Rio 2016 to just around 130 in Tokyo 2020
• 67 million users on the official Olympic Video games success webpage
  
• 49,510 volunteers accepted by way of the volunteer portal
  
• 535,000 accreditations issued – which also served as a safe official border entry doc into Japan

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At peak, Games devices hold the most critical own data in the environment. Atos secured the whole IT infrastructure of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, leveraging its skills in digital cybersecurity and utilizing authentic-time information analysis equipment. Its teams of cybersecurity industry experts monitored devices and networks constantly, from a Stability Procedure Middle (SOC), merged with a Computer system Protection Incident Response Workforce (CSIRT). They have been performing closely with the Atos business enterprise and technology industry experts of the Technologies Operations Center.

“Tokyo 2020 ended up unparalleled Olympic Video games, and it took an equally unprecedented exertion from all of us to make them occur in a safe and sound and secure manner for everyone. Atos has been actually instrumental in connecting, securing and digitally enabling the Olympic Video games Tokyo 2020 to all stakeholders throughout the world, while reducing the environmental influence of our IT functions. We are delighted to keep on to do the job with a chief in the electronic field, bringing innovation to the Olympic Game titles, and supporting us to link digitally with all our enthusiasts about the world.” claimed Thomas Bach, President of the Intercontinental Olympic Committee (IOC).

“The Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Game titles had been historic, as athletes broke documents, opened minds and changed life. Currently being able to explain to that tale of diversity and inclusion throughout the world was essential, and the Atos cloud ensured that we could remain digitally linked with fans, journalists and broadcasters. To do that properly and securely was especially essential to us in Tokyo as we launched WeThe15, which aims to conclude discrimination in direction of the 1.2 billion people with disabilities. We congratulate Atos for ensuring that the Paralympic Online games had been as substantial-carrying out in the IT back again-stop as they have been on the industry of play.” reported Andrew Parsons, President of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC).

Atos is actively supporting the campaign #WeThe15 released by the Intercontinental Paralympic Committee (IPC), the major campaign at any time of its kind concentrated on disability visibility and inclusion. The Group has prolonged its employee useful resource team for individuals with disabilities and their allies and is dedicated to addressing inclusion as a important induce.

“Like athletes, Atos authorities have been making ready for the celebration years in advance, with ambition and dedication. When it arrives to the Olympic and Paralympic Game titles, there are no 2nd chances,” said Elie Girard, Atos CEO. “Each edition of the Olympic and Paralympic Video games delivers with each other a lot more and more related spectators, and digital is much more than at any time a central player.The knowledge of our groups created it attainable to provide a flawless occasion, and to guarantee moments of joy and emotion to the earth local community. In these unprecedented times, I am quite proud of the achievements of these Olympic and Paralympic Online games, which were amazing by their extraordinary resilience.”

Searching forward to Beijing 2022 and Paris 2024

For the first time in the historical past, the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games will get place only 5 months right after the end of the summer season version – which necessarily represents a serious planning obstacle. The Atos teams are already on website in Beijing, eager to convey their innovation, determination, and enthusiasm to the thriving group of the subsequent version. Atos is also already making ready actively for the Olympic and Paralympic Online games 2024 which will be held in Paris.

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[1] 50% reduction of personnel travelling to help the Games in the Technological know-how Operation Middle in Tokyo.

About Atos

Atos is a world-wide chief in electronic transformation with 105,000 staff and annual revenue of around € 11 billion. European variety a person in cybersecurity, cloud and significant-effectiveness computing, the Group delivers tailor-made finish-to-end solutions for all industries in 71 countries. A pioneer in decarbonization providers and solutions, Atos is fully commited to a protected and decarbonized electronic for its purchasers. Atos operates beneath the brand names Atos and Atos|Syntel. Atos is a SE (Societas Europaea), shown on the Following 20 Paris Stock Index.

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