Atos on track with Network Rail private cloud upgrade contract

London, United kingdom – twelve March 2020

Atos, a worldwide chief in electronic transformation, has signed a 4-calendar year deal worthy of £12 million with Network Rail to design, supply and control a new electronic private cloud platform that will underpin the functions of Britain’s rail infrastructure service provider.

The settlement sees Atos migrate all programs from Network Rail’s legacy knowledge centers into a new electronic private cloud.  The new knowledge centers will deliver a extremely safe, strong and price-productive electronic foundation for Network Rail’s company though making certain agility in a technologically converged environment.

The operation and assist of the knowledge centers, offering state-of-the-art and price-productive web hosting functionality for the UK’s rail infrastructure service provider also will come underneath the management of Atos.

Simon Goodman Head of IT assist solutions, Network Rail, explained: “Our settlement with Atos to supply a new electronic private cloud varieties a essential component of our ongoing program of electronic transformation.  We recognize we will have to proceed to evolve to proceed to meet up with the needs of passengers and rail operators and moving to a safe and superior-functionality private cloud is basic to this ambition.  The new knowledge middle will give a sturdy platform from which to meet up with our needs now and into the potential, though ongoing Atos management assists make certain we realize very best benefit for our investment.”

Commenting on the settlement, Clay Van Doren, Atos CEO United kingdom & Ireland, explained: “This deal alerts a deepening of our partnership with Network Rail and enables legacy techniques to coexist with impressive cloud programs though maximizing security and making certain potential scalability, helping energy the electronic transformation of our nation’s rail infrastructure operator with rail users across Britain progressively benefiting from an agile, digitally-empowered group.”

The settlement provides to Atos’ skills and heritage in offering electronic transformation remedies to customers in the UK’s transportation sector which includes IAG, DVSA, Transport for London and Highways England. The company’s job in United kingdom rail stretches back again around decades of sweeping commercial and technological variations, acquiring consolidated and modernized legacy techniques both of those in the rail functions domain and in retail and purchaser data techniques.

The Atos Electronic Vision for Mobility paper sets out how electronic technological innovation has transformed the UK’s transportation sector and considers how new advancements will ascertain the mobility remedies of tomorrow for road and rail, broader public transportation and logistics.