Econocom - 2019 Universal registration document

02 group overview group positioning

Hosting and cloud offers For Econocom, infrastructure performance is a key success factor to ensure a successful user experience. The Group supports CIOs in maintaining very high levels of performance, integrating more efficient and flexible cloud offers and enhancing security. As the 9 th ژ largest player in the cloud and datacenter outsourcing market in France, Econocom is positioned, with its “Satellites” as a genuine partner of businesses and governments. The Satellites Alter Way (France): Alter Way is also a key • player in cloud services in France, specialising in MoveToCloud consulting and the outsourcing of web critical open source platforms on its own infrastructures of those of its public cloud partners (Azure, AWS, Google, etc.). Alter Way has a complete offer of containerisation on Docker, of orchestration via Kubernetes and 27/7 management of those platforms. Regularly ranked among the best high availability web hosters (IP Label/BFM Business ranking); ASP Serveur (France): production • infrastructure host and operator of public, private and hybrid cloud solutions. As a specialist in mission-critical hosting and public and private cloud solutions, ASP Serveur owns its infrastructure and has a cutting edge, very high security datacenter; Econocom Brazil: strategic consulting, • managed services and outsourcing projects; Nexica (Spain): an expert in the hosting • and management of critical applications for 15 ژ years. The company is a key player in the Spanish market in the cloud computing.

Nexica has datacenters in Barcelona, Madrid and Marseille. INFRASTRUCTURE 3.4.4. & NETWORKS A market undergoing major 3.4.4.1. structural changes Businesses need more and better IT • infrastructure Digitisation, new uses, development of cloud models: to meet these challenges, the network must play an increasingly important role. In addition to the commonly accepted intrinsic qualities (performance, availability, durability), it is becoming increasingly common for networks to be required to integrate advanced functions such as: filtering, optimisation and management of flows (voice, video), virtualisation and quality of service measurements. The development of forms of collaborative work (for example, videoconferencing) partly explains this trend. A strong tendency towards migration to • public cloud systems Over the last several years companies have been shifting their IT workload to the public cloud. Cybersecurity, a top priority for • executives and Boards of Directors In all business sectors, attacks are becoming more numerous and more complex, with 80% of technology managers saying that their organisation is struggling to put in place a strong defence. New mutations for tomorrow • These include the growth of Asia for hardware solutions, the use of DevOps for software and hardware, container-first architectures and the increasing use of artificial intelligence and technology stacks optimised for machine learning.

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