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 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. "

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.