The list of cloud computing offers that claim to be “trusted” is growing. Docaposte, Dassault Systèmes, Bouygues Telecom and the Banque des Territoires announce the formation of an industrial consortium to create the company Numspot, on which will be based a joint offer called “sovereign and trusted cloud”.
This alliance primarily targets the world of finance (banks, insurance), the health sector and the public sector, professional categories that are particularly sensitive to data protection. The marketed offer will be “competitive, reliable and secure” to meet regulated hosting needs in accordance with SecNumCloud and HDS standards as well as the future European cybersecurity scheme EUCS, assures a press release.
The service will be based on Dassault Systèmes’ Outscale cloud infrastructure, which has already qualified for the SecNumCloud label. Numspot’s offer should be operational from 2023 for the European market.
Economic conditions “balanced” against a backdrop of inflation
The newly created company announces commitments in terms of interoperability and contract reversibility. It also ensures that economic conditions will be “balanced”, in a context of inflation where cloud costs tend to increase.
In the coming months, we risk seeing many offers claiming to be “trusted cloud” jostling at the gate. After S3NS, Bleu and now Numspot, there is no shortage of competition on the starting line. According to information from Journal du Net, a trusted cloud project is also being prepared by AWS and Atos.
These projects, which will not see the light of day before 2023 for the most part, all capitalize on the “trusted cloud” label announced by the government as part of its national cloud strategy in May 2021. Behind this very generic term, political figures are stepping up, like the deputy Philippe Latombe, to denounce an attempt to “smoke out” on the part of the actors in the sector. For him, the label “cloud of trust” should not make us forget the substance of the debate, which concerns extraterritoriality.
SaaS thanks to Docaposte
In addition to a PaaS platform, Numspot will offer SaaS solutions, which will be based on existing bricks already marketed by Docaposte, the digital subsidiary of the La Poste group. Docaposte has made “digital trust” one of its favorite themes. Its business portfolio includes the secure management of health data, digital identity, electronic voting and electronic signatures.
“Docaposte is the leader of this ambitious cloud of trust project which relies on the complementarity of four major French players. Docaposte will contribute to Numspot’s success through its detailed understanding of the expectations of the public sphere and the health, through its ability to support the transformation of organizations as well as through its recognized expertise in digital trust services” said Olivier Vallet, CEO of Docaposte.
According to Bernard Charlès, CEO of Dassault Systèmes, this project responds to “strong expectations from the market and citizens”. He assures that “in a new geopolitical context, this alliance will federate a sovereign ecosystem with the ambition of becoming a pillar of digital for the citizen in Europe”.