Econocom - 2020 annual report

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Edge reaches an inflection point In any • case, this is the Forrester’s (1) conviction. Edge redefines where data is processed and how the cloud is used. The practical applications of this concept will finally emerge in 2021 where this architecture is a real asset. The possibility of implementing private 5G networks will also offer new use cases for Edge Computing; strong growth in hybrid cloud The giants • of the public cloud are also keen on penetrating “on-prem” infrastructures with their own solutions to better merge the internal infrastructure with their cloud services. At Google, the strategy is based entirely on Kubernetes and the Mesh Istio service with its 100% software solution "Google Anthos" which now operates in bare-metal and is also deployed in other public clouds. At AWS, the strategy relies in part on its AWS Outpostsappliancesas well as the recent announcements of ECS Anywhere and EKS Anywhere to deploy Amazon's Elastic Container Services on its internal infrastructure. Lastly, in December, Microsoftlaunchedthe “GeneralAvailability” version of Azure Stack HCI, its hyperconverged solution that is direct competition with VMware and Nutanix, which is highly integrated with Azure and embeds AKS (Azure Kubernetes Services). The softwarevendor also offers Azure Arc to deploy Azure data services in the form of containers in any cloud or on its internal infrastructure; emergence of a sovereign cloud GAIA-X: • on the one hand, companiesare working to prevent suppliers from locking them into their cloud technologies. On the other hand, European legislation has been strengthened to ensure the sovereignty of European data, forcing companies to think about “European storage”. These two trends are the main drivers of the European metacloud initiative GAIA-X. A metacloud designed with interoperability and

reversibilityas core values. Enough to make the cloud more agnostic. 2021 will be extremely challenging for this initiative. To ensure its success, it must materialise quickly, probably in mid-2021. Otherwise, it is likely that the Europeanmetacloudwill be a dramatic flop; lastly, the steady growth of open source • will inevitably continue due to its cross-functional nature and the regular adoption by major IT players. According to PAC-CXP, the open source market will see annual growth of 8.1% by 2021 for the industry as a whole (+12.6% for publishing and +7.8% for services), representingabout twice the growth forecast for the entire digital sector (+4.2%). The United Kingdom and Germanyare in second and third place behind France, European leader in open source and open digital. France should maintain this position until 2021. The free software and open source sector continues to grow, building on its traditional implementations in infrastructure, middlewareand the web, and is findingnew growth vectors through its strong implication in the new technology market segments:Big Data and AI, newgenerations of DevOps-orienteddevelopmenttools, and cloud technologies. The Econocom offer: 3.4.3.2. Alter Way, ASP Serveur, Bizmatica, Econocom Brazil, Nexica, At the heart of the user experience, applications are the most visible part of the daily lives of the Company’s customers and employees. Today, every company must have powerful business-oriented applications, developed within shorter and shorter deadlines and adapted to rapid changes in the market, uses and technologies. Synertrade Applications

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