The French government unveils a French cloud computing consortium together with Orange, Dassault Systemes and Thales, the AFP reports.
Codenamed Andromède, the project dates from 2009, with French government stimulus funds worth €4.25Bn-- and will involve the building of big data centers providing secure hosting for French government bodies and corporations.
The consortium still needs to nail down its financing and governance, mind-- and each institution's unions' signed blessings.
The cloud effort is definitely a take on the likes of Amazon and Google, and their being, well, American, in the name of French data "sovereignity".
