This membership is in line with Clever Cloud's commitment to open source, its promotion and protection.

A unique vision of open source

Joining the Eclipse Foundation reflects Clever Cloud's desire to play an active role in strengthening open source and, in particular, in building a strategically autonomous European cloud. As recent developments in the market for proprietary virtualisation software have shown, it is imperative to have open source alternatives to these, whose governance is indisputable and transparent. The Eclipse Foundation is the ideal partner for this: an association under Belgian law, it offers neutral and open governance, and promotes and enables the implementation of best practice in this area for the projects it supports.

"We are very proud to be joining the Eclipse Foundation. This membership embodies our ambition to strengthen open source, as well as to develop the strategic autonomy essential to the emergence and distribution of independent clouds, in Europe and around the world," says Quentin Adam, CEO of Clever Cloud.

"We are delighted to welcome Clever Cloud to the Eclipse Foundation. Their commitment to open source aligns perfectly with our mission to foster transparent governance and promote best practices in open technology projects,” said Mike Milinkovich, Executive Director at the Eclipse Foundation. “As part of our community, Clever Cloud will participate in a number of important initiatives that promote European innovation with a worldwide impact."

For the development of open source in Europe and worldwide

By participating in the Eclipse Foundation ecosystem, Clever Cloud aims to:

• Promote open source in Europe and worldwide: Through shared values and a commitment to businesses and organisations, this membership will contribute to the wider adoption of open source in Europe and worldwide. This supports an independent digital economy, encouraging local innovation and reducing dependency on proprietary solutions and technological lock-in;
• Promoting transparent governance: While open source projects are now essential components of any application, it is important to ensure that they remain free and open. Clear, stable governance that is immune to privatisation abuses is the guarantee of their development, the investment they attract and their longevity;
• Continuing to innovate in the development of open solutions: A shared belief in open source, the impact of sharing knowledge and its intrinsic quality of innovation through collaborative work. Motivated by the quality of software and its maintainability, Clever Cloud has long been invested in the development of open solutions such as Sōzu, Exherbo, Biscuit, etc.

This membership supports Clever Cloud's commitment to the strategic autonomy of cloud software components, of which open source is an essential building block, for the maintenance of robust, open and transparent innovation. This support for local innovation and technological development gives European companies the opportunity to collaborate and develop solutions tailored to the specific needs of their markets.

Clever Cloud will be contributing a number of its open source projects to the foundation in the near future, providing an opportunity to strengthen the availability of alternatives to proprietary software with unquestionable and transparent governance.

About the Eclipse Foundation: The Eclipse Foundation provides our global community of individuals and organisations with a business-friendly environment for open source software collaboration and innovation. We host the Eclipse IDE, Adoptium, Software Defined Vehicle, Jakarta EE, and over 415 open source projects, including runtimes, tools, specifications, and frameworks for cloud and edge applications, IoT, AI, automotive, systems engineering, open processor designs, and many others. Headquartered in Brussels, Belgium, the Eclipse Foundation is an international non-profit association supported by over 360 members. Visit us at this year’s Open Community Experience (OCX) conference on 22-24 October 2024 in Mainz, Germany. To learn more, follow us on social media @EclipseFdn, LinkedIn, or visit eclipse.org.

Countries in these international zones wish to ensure strong data sovereignty as part of their digital growth. As Clever Cloud is strongly committed to this issue, we thought it would be interesting and important to share our experience with them. As part of this ambitious strategy, the company is pleased to welcome Erwan Rougeux, who joins the management team as Vice President International Growth.

With ten years' international experience as CTO, Erwan Rougeux will bring his expertise, knowledge of geopolitics and network all around the world to guide Clever Cloud's growth into new territories.

“We're delighted to welcome Erwan to Clever Cloud. His appetite for technical subjects, his in-depth knowledge of the countries in which we wish to expand, and our shared values will be invaluable assets in our growth strategy. This represents a major step in the development of our company", says Quentin Adam, CEO of Clever Cloud.

“I'm delighted to be joining Clever Cloud as Vice President International Growth. After more than 10 years’ experience in French institutions abroad, I'm determined to keep working for digital sovereignty and to offer a European alternative to GAFAM thanks to an innovative, secure, and data-friendly cloud. My humanist values, perfectly in line with Quentin Adam's strategy, will enable us to create synergy in host countries, to catalyze local projects and talents to support digital transformations and our international development", declares Erwan Rougeux.

A growth strategy that respects sovereignty

Clever Cloud's strategy involves creating and fostering partnerships with local players, as well as calling on local talent and acculturating them to its Cloud platform. It is essential for Clever Cloud to adapt to the cultures of host countries, and to provide local administrators and companies with the keys to support their strategic autonomy and data sovereignty.

The company aims to open its first international office in the second half of this year,.

Interested, want to know more or discuss our strategy with us? Please write at Erwan.rougeux@clever-cloud.com

By combining their respective expertise, these two French cloud technology champions, specializing in PaaS (Platform as a Service) and IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) solutions, are joining forces to offer a solid, autonomous, and open alternative to hyperscalers.

Comprehensive and integrated solutions for businesses

This strategic partnership aims to provide businesses with an extensive and integrated range of IaaS and PaaS services. The proposed solutions will enable companies to benefit from a complete cloud infrastructure, from advanced resource virtualization to simplified application deployment and management. This way, businesses can address their diverse challenges while freeing themselves from complex operational burdens.

Meeting strategic autonomy requirements

By combining the strengths of Clever Cloud and Vates, this partnership responds to the growing needs for technological independence and digital sovereignty of businesses in European and international markets. The solutions offered will reduce their reliance on major global providers while ensuring optimal performance tailored to the needs of modern enterprises. This partnership demonstrates that European technologies are capable of delivering technologies as efficient, if not better, than those of the hyperscalers.

Rejecting lock-in strategies

Clever Cloud and Vates share common values around open source and rejecting technological lock-in strategies. While many competitors have chosen to develop proprietary technologies forcing clients to adapt their code and infrastructure, Clever Cloud and Vates have taken the opposite approach, finding these practices unethical.

"The market is increasingly aware of the issues of strategic autonomy and technological lock-in. Today, this partnership is a decisive step towards creating innovative, ethical, and European cloud solutions that cover our clients' needs from IaaS to PaaS." said Quentin Adam, co-founder and CEO of Clever Cloud.

"In the face of the domination of hyperscalers who impose their conditions, European cloud champions must work together to offer solutions that are at least as innovative and efficient as those of the industry's giants. This is essential for companies to have strategically autonomous alternatives and to exercise choice." said Jean-Baptiste Piacentino, VP of Alliances at Clever Cloud.

"Recent market changes are pushing infrastructure operators and users to evolve their needs, and it is important for them to be able to rely on a strong alternative that spans from physical machine virtualization to managed services for enterprise applications." said Olivier Lambert, CEO and co-founder of Vates SAS.

"Our partnership with Clever Cloud is already translating into an increased capacity to address specific client use cases and access new business opportunities. It is also important at the French and European levels because the combination of our two players is quite unique within the European Union. This partnership paves the way for innovative cloud and edge infrastructures, made in France, and adapted to market needs." said Charles Schulz, Strategy Director at Vates.

About Vates: Vates is a key player in the field of IaaS. Specializing in virtualization and orchestration solutions, Vates develops open source technologies that meet the critical needs of businesses. Its Xen Orchestra platform is a flagship example of its commitment to innovation and transparency.

Its ambition is to provide companies, public players and citizens with operational avenues for reflection in a trusted digital environment. For companies, the Chair has formalized the concept of “privacy as a business model”. Clever Cloud joins the VP-IP Chair to participate in its multi-disciplinary work alongside the IN Groupe, Orange and the CNIL.

Clever Cloud publishes a Platform as a Service service, based in Europe. Its aim is to help development teams put digital applications and services into production, on a reliable, scalable and secure infrastructure, with transparent pricing. Clever Cloud is committed to keeping abreast of legislative and regulatory developments. In this context, Clever Cloud pays particular attention to privacy and the protection of personal data, whether in France, Europe or abroad. With this in mind, the company has chosen to support the Values and Policies of Personal Information Chair through a sponsorship program.

Clever Cloud is openly committed to data sovereignty, to ensure a free and autonomous digital space for all. This approach resonates with the multidisciplinary work carried out by the Chair, which is at once technological, legal, economic and philosophical.

The aim of the VP-IP Chair is to develop, in close collaboration with its sponsors, world-class research with the following objectives:

• Contribute to discussions on the legal, economic, technical and ethical regulation of personal information and digital identities;

• Study the factors that ensure trust in new services that collect and process personal information, in order to guarantee implementation that respects the rights and obligations of the players involved;

• Enhance the security of personal information;

• Propose trust policies and their variations;

• Examine the combination of different types of personal information and data (particularly public data) to develop innovative products and services;

• Create a space for international cooperation and multidisciplinary expertise.

Claire Levallois-Barth, Coordinator of the Values and Policies of Personal Information Chair at Institut Mines-Télécom: “We are honored to welcome Clever Cloud as one of our sponsors. Their commitment to digital sovereignty, including data sovereignty, resonates deeply with the research themes on which the entire VP-IP Chair team is working. Their support strengthens our ability to explore new perspectives in our multi-disciplinary work, particularly in terms of privacy and data protection.”

Quentin Adam, CEO of Clever Cloud: “We are delighted to join the VP-IP (in french)Chair, which is in line with our values and our commitment to the strategic autonomy of data. At Clever Cloud, we are convinced that such academic research is vital to building a trusted digital environment at international level, and that it is essential to support it.”

This chair is a sponsorship chair, supported by the Fondation Mines-Télécom.

Clever Cloud joins the other sponsors and partners of the Chair: IN Groupe, Orange, the Université Catholique de Louvain and the CNIL.

Clever Cloud's “UP” program is designed specifically to support startups in their early and growth phases. The program promises numerous training, coaching and certification levers, as well as credits for use of its cloud services. Clever Cloud aims to reduce the technical and financial barriers often encountered by young, innovative companies.

There's more to life than credit

Wishing to make a real impact on the development of startups, Clever Cloud has decided to create a rich cloud support program with onboarding, certification training, a mentoring program, monthly workshops, communication actions and €10,000 in credits, or even more.

“We are delighted to launch the ‘UP’ program at VivaTech, the leading meeting place dedicated to innovation. This program demonstrates our commitment to supporting the entrepreneurial ecosystem and contributing to the growth of innovation. We didn't want to just hand out credits and leave startups to deal with their cloud issues on their own, but rather become a lever for growth,” says Clément Nivolle, co-founder of Clever Cloud and head of the UP program.

A program and its partners

The program has been built up with partners committed to the development of local startups (ADN Ouest, H7, and others soon to be announced). These partners offer their startups the opportunity to apply to join UP. Finally, the training and certification program has been created with Ecole Hexagone, a French IT school training its students in current issues (AI, digital sovereignty, Green IT, cybersecurity, etc.).

“This enables us to have a first level of selection, and thus better identify tomorrow's high-potential companies” adds Clément Nivolle.

A rich program

The UP program offers eligible startups :

• Up to €10,000 in cloud credits in your first year (or more);
• Onboarding on our platform and training with our engineers;
• Monthly coaching;
• Clever Cloud certification with Ecole Hexagone;
• Access to our high-level support;
• Workshops and masterclasses for your technical team;
• Mentoring for your founders and technical team;
• Visibility on Clever Cloud media, social networks and events.

Startups interested in the “UP” program can apply now on the Clever Cloud website. The selection process will begin immediately after VivaTech and continue throughout the year.

Meet Clever Cloud on Wednesday May 22 at the Pays de la Loire pavillon, hall 1, at Vivatech.

Clever Cloud embodies the modernity and automation of the cloud, enabling developers and DevOps teams to deploy their applications and databases quickly and easily. Clever Cloud's promise is to accelerate production releases, with productivity gains of up to a factor of 8 for certain customers.

Cloud Temple is a leading player in the secure cloud, whose Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offering has been SecNumCloud-qualified since 2022. The qualification awarded by ANSSI certifies that its products meet the highest levels of technical, organisational and legal security. Through its marketplace, Cloud Temple provides a foundation of trust for PaaS and SaaS solution publishers, meeting all the digital transformation needs of the industry, finance, healthcare and public sectors.

The complementary nature of the Cloud Temple and Clever Cloud offerings makes this partnership a natural fit. Together, the two companies will provide solutions to the innovation challenges faced by organisations and public authorities whose cloud activities are exposed to major security and sovereignty constraints.

Sébastien Lescop, CEO of Cloud Temple, comments: " So that our customers no longer have to choose between security and innovation, we have placed interoperability at the heart of our strategy. The collaboration with Clever Cloud is fully in line with this dynamic of openness.

Quentin Adam, CEO of Clever Cloud, added: "By combining the expertise of Clever Cloud and Cloud Temple, we are creating a French alternative to hyperscalers. With this partnership, we are responding to developers' needs for agility and automation while meeting the most stringent security requirements. "

So we're the first European PaaS company to obtain it for its services and its own infrastructure.This achievement underlines our determination to offer a cloud environment that is independant, high-performance, reliable and sovereign but also highly secure.

What is ISO 27001 : 2022 certification?

Internationally recognised, ISO 27001 : 2022 certification is the benchmark for information security management systems (ISMS). Currently in its 2022 revision, it guarantees that an organisation has put in place a management system that includes policies, procedures and physical and IT controls to protect confidential and sensitive information. Obtaining this certification is the culmination of a rigorous audit and compliance process, supported by the work of our teams.

Why choose an ISO 27001 cloud provider?

Choosing an ISO 27001-certified cloud service provider like Clever Cloud offers undeniable advantages for businesses of all sizes:

• Enhanced data security: Certification ensures that your data is managed and protected in accordance with the highest international security standards.
• Increased trust: It serves as tangible proof of our commitment to security, increasing confidence in our cloud solutions.
• Facilitated compliance: It helps our customers to more easily meet their own regulatory and compliance requirements in terms of data security.
• Reduced risk: Our commitment to security best practice reduces the risk of security breaches and the potential consequences for your business.

Our commitment to security

Achieving ISO 27001 : 2022 certification is proof of our unwavering commitment to security, at every level of our organisation. It is not simply the culmination of an audit process, but the reward for a team work over several years. Clever Cloud has built its platform and information system on a highly advanced security strategy, notably through our No Trusted Networkpolicy. What's more, the foundations for ISO 27001 : 2022 certification had already been laid with the award of ISO 9001, underlining the exemplary nature of our quality management system.

What this means for you

For our customers, Clever Cloud ISO 27001 certification means that you can rely on a cloud computing partner that takes the security of your data seriously. In practical terms, this argument can also be used by our customers to reassure their partners and end customers. They can emphasise the fact that their data is in a compliant space that meets the most rigorous security standards in the industry.

What about future certifications?

HDS certification

We are working on obtaining "Health Data Hosting" (HDS) certification for the 6 aspects of the standard.

The "Hosting of physical infrastructure" sections:

• the provision and maintenance in operational condition of the physical infrastructure of the information system used to process health data
• the provision and maintenance in operational condition of physical sites used to host the physical infrastructure of the information system used to process health data.

The "Data-processing host" components:

• making available and maintaining in operational condition the virtual infrastructure of the health information system
• Provision and maintenance in operational condition of the information system's application hosting platform
• administering and operating the information system containing health data
• outsourced backup of health data

We are currently working with partners to offer our customers HDS hosting, certified for the first 2 aspects of the standard.

SecNumCloud certification

We are also working on obtaining SecNumCloud certification. In April 2023, Bruno Le Maire and Jean-Noël Barrot selected Clever Cloud to take part in the SecNumCloud certification support program, implemented by Bpifrance in close collaboration with the Agence nationale de la sécurité des systèmes d'information (ANSSI) and the Direction Générale des Entreprises (DGE). Following this support, we have already begun the certification process, with audits done on December 2023.

A trusted partner

Clever Cloud's achievement of ISO 27001 : 2022 certification represents an important milestone in our aim to provide a leading, secure and reliable cloud services. We understand the critical importance of data security in today's digital world, and we are committed to providing the most secure and robust solutions available. It's one of our obligations to you: not only to meet your cloud computing requirements, but also to exceed expectations in terms of security and reliability.

Clever Cloud, French creator of deployment and hosting solutions in PaaS (Platform as a Service) mode, announces a series of strategic appointments and recruitments to continue and amplify its growth. In 2023, Clever Cloud has once again made great strides, with a significant increase in its turnover. Having recently passed the 60-strong mark, the company is welcoming new profiles to support its development, and is expanding its Management Committee.

Jean-Baptiste Piacentino has taken on the role of Vice-President in charge of alliances. He oversees strategic, technical and institutional partnerships, public relations and our commitment to data sovereignty.

David Legrand, who has been in charge of Clever Cloud's hardware solutions since March 2022, is now Vice-President in charge of the product. After helping to set up our last three points of presence in Paris, he will ensure that the development of our new software and hardware solutions remains in line with our customers' expectations and our trademark high standards, in liaison with the technical teams led by our CTO, Steven Le Roux.

Clever Cloud's development is also marked by strategic recruitments:

• Jérôme Guerrier joins the team as Sales Director, bringing valuable expertise to drive sales growth and strengthen customer relations. With 18 years' experience in telecoms and payment solutions, he brings his know-how to bear on development initiatives both in Europe and internationally.
• Horacio Gonzalez joins the company as Vice President, Developer Relations (DevRel). He plays a crucial role in strengthening ties with this community, which continues to be an essential part of the Clever Cloud ecosystem. After a technical career, Horacio went on to become DevRel and then DevRel Director for OVHcloud, making him one of the leading figures in the French IT community.
• Last but not least, the forthcoming arrival of a Human Resources Director will support the integration of the company's many employees, while preserving the corporate culture to which the teams are so attached.

"These key hires and evolutions are a reflection of our ambition to become the best cloud in Europe," says Quentin Adam, CEO of Clever Cloud. "With these talents on board, our solid financial growth, our ISO 27001, HDS certifications and ongoing SecNumCloud qualification, we're building the foundations for even more significant expansion over the next few years."

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The InfrateX Consortium, led by Sopra Steria with NTT Data and including Clever Cloud as a member, has won the significant 4 years framework contract Simpl for the Directorate-General for Communication Networks, Content, and Technology (DG Connect) of the European Commission.

The goal of Simpl, as its name suggests, is to simplify the integration and exchange of data. The consortium aims to design a large-scale, modular, interoperable, and open-source middleware platform. It is a real pride to contribute to the development of the most competitive and streamlined cloud-to-edge federations for the European ecosystem.

The InfrateX Consortium, supported by Gaia-X, FIWARE, i-Share, and BAIDATA, relies on a pan-European ecosystem of carefully selected companies, each bringing significant added value to ensure the success of Simpl's implementation. This collaboration brings together 26 companies from 14 European countries, including long-standing clients or partners of Clever Cloud, such as Docaposte, OVH Cloud, or Sopra Steria. All these selected companies are experts in their field and recognized for their technological vision and competence.

"Clever Cloud is proud to be part of this open, pragmatic, and collective approach, in harmony with our philosophy. Winning this tender is a recognition of our Cloud vision, our commitment to digital sovereignty, and our R&D approach." Quentin Adam, CEO of Clever Cloud.

The list of companies within InfrateX:

• Digital Services Companies: Sopra Steria, NTT Data, PwC, Cybernetica, sovity, wetransform, Software Quality Systems (SQS)
• Cloud Providers: OVHcloud, CloudFerro, Telefonica
• Software Providers: Clever Cloud, Docaposte, deltaDao AG, Cleyrop, Aleia, BYO Networks, Innovalia, Dawex, Fair & Smart, Ponder Source, Innovalia
• Researchers & Technology Organisations: ITI, IMEC
• Associations: CISPE (Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe), Digital New Deal, Eclipse Foundation, Hub France IA
• Countries: France, Belgium, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, Luxembourg, Poland, Estonia, Lithuania, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Austria.

To read the full press release of Sopra Steria: click here.

Nantes, April 6, 2023 - Clever Cloud is pleased to announce that as part of the implementation of the France 2030 plan, ministers Bruno Le Maire and Jean-Noël Barrot have selected its application to benefit from the SecNumCloud qualification support scheme operated by Bpifrance in close collaboration with the Agence nationale de sécurité des systèmes d’information (ANSSI) and the Direction Générale des Entreprises (DGE). Obtaining the SecNumCloud qualification will enable Clever Cloud to offer the "trusted cloud" necessary to protect the sensitive data of public authorities and companies that wish to benefit from the best technical and legal guarantees.

The implementation of this support system was desired by many players. It confirms the government's desire to help the French cloud industry meet its legitimate regulatory requirements, while continuing to invest primarily in the development and ongoing improvement of technological and commercial solutions expected by users.

As an expert in hosting and maintaining applications and databases in operational conditions, Clever Cloud is delighted that the government is actively supporting the French cloud sector in this way, with 21 perfectly complementary projects that testify to the vitality of the French software industry.

Clever Cloud is also one of the partners of the CollabNext consortium selected in the framework of the call for projects "Cloud collaborative office suites", which will make available a complete, sovereign, innovative, secure and interoperable collaborative platform. Clever Cloud's deployment and orchestration technologies will enable dynamic scaling, without service interruption, with strong optimisation of the resources used by the platform.

"These are very positive signals sent by the government to the entire French cloud industry, and I would particularly like to thank the ministers Bruno Le Maire and Jean-Noël Barrot for this essential aid, which shows that the government believes in the capacity of the French industry to propose offers that meet market requirements. We will be able to respond to this expectation and to the confidence that has been shown in us", declared Quentin ADAM, President of Clever Cloud.

About Clever Cloud

Founded in 2010, Clever Cloud is a company based in Nantes, France, specializing in IT automation. It creates and provides the software building blocks necessary for the flexible deployment of applications on self-service SaaS architectures. Its clients include major companies such as Airbus, AXA, Caisse d'Épargne, Cegid, Docaposte, MAIF, McDonald's, Solocal, SNCF, TBWA… www.clever-cloud.com

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