{"id":12943,"date":"2015-03-20T13:48:03","date_gmt":"2015-03-20T13:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/?p=219402"},"modified":"2015-03-20T13:48:03","modified_gmt":"2015-03-20T13:48:03","slug":"orange-confirms-cloudwatt-acquisition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/orange-confirms-cloudwatt-acquisition\/","title":{"rendered":"Orange confirms Cloudwatt acquisition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_138691\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 310px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-138691\" alt=\"Orange has confirmed it will acquire Cloudwatt\" src=\"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/122\/files\/2013\/05\/1414272_14233871-300x300.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Orange has confirmed it will acquire Cloudwatt<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Orange confirmed this week that the company has finalised an agreement to acquire all remaining shares of Cloudwatt, the cloud services provider it set up with the French government.<\/p>\n<p>In January the company confirmed it had entered into discussions to buy the firm, in which Orange had the largest stake; Thales owned 22 per cent and Caisse des D\u00e9p\u00f4ts 33 per cent of Cloudwatt.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy acquiring Cloudwatt, Orange will strengthen its enterprise cloud services offering \u2013 a major focus of its &#8220;Essentials2020&#8243; strategic plan,\u201d Orange said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe technologies and services offered by Cloudwatt complement Orange\u2019s own portfolio and represent an opportunity to accelerate the deployment of a sovereign public cloud both in France and in Europe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Through Caisse des D\u00e9p\u00f4ts, the French state paid \u20ac75m for its share of Cloudwatt and spent another \u20ac75m to help set up Numergy (co-founded by SFR and Bull) through the French government\u2019s \u2018Project Andromeda\u2019 in a bid to provide locally-hosted competition to US-based cloud service providers.<\/p>\n<p>Reports earlier this year suggested a potential merger between Numergy and Cloudwatt was in the works in late 2014, however, now that Atos owns Bull and Numericable owns SFR, it\u2019s thought a potential deal would have been too awkward for shareholders to accept.<\/p>\n<p>The acquisition will see Orange integrate all of Cloudwatt\u2019s employee into its operations (likely the company&#8217;s Business Services division).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Orange confirmed this week that the company has finalised an agreement to acquire all remaining shares of Cloudwatt, the cloud services provider it set up with the French government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":105,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2052,2053,1993,1976,2054,1066],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cloudwatt","category-france","category-infrastructure-as-a-service","category-news-analysis","category-numergy","category-orange"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/105"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12944,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12943\/revisions\/12944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}