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The Atos Cisco Partnership

combining
IT excellence and innovation
to deliver transformational business change

Your business technologists. Powering progress


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The Atos and Cisco
partnership
Connect, communicate, collaborate... empowered by IT services
excellence and experience.

Atos powers progress We recognize that today’s business Cisco leads the world in helping people
and technology challenges demand a connect, communicate, and collaborate.
We drive your business transformation, comprehensive response from a range of We pioneered the development of IP-based
and help you create your firm of the future. experts. That is why we work hand in hand networking technologies, and are at the
Atos business technologists have a deep with selected world-class organizations to forefront of developments in routing,
understanding of industrial and administrative strengthen our own unique portfolio. We switching, and other technologies, including
business processes and system environments. believe our strategic alliance with Cisco will collaboration, data center, cloud services,
We combine this knowledge with IT expertise offer a powerful proposition to our customers. security, video, and wireless.
gained over 30 years, shaping practical
innovations that provide measurable value
to customers in every sector, delivered
Cisco connecting the Our goal is to connect things, people,
unconnected processes, and data with unparalleled speed
through consulting and technology services, and agility as the Internet of Everything
systems integration, managed services, and Cisco is committed to supporting our changes our world forever.
cloud services. customers’ need to exploit the new
opportunities that are being created by the
Cloud is typical of the compelling IT trends drive toward the Internet of Everything.
today for which our customers look to us for
leadership. We provide it through a pure client We work with our partners and customers to
approach that empowers customers to deploy deliver customized, intelligent solutions based
cloud architectures at any point across the on technology architectures and integrated
enterprise, using our Canopy cloud services. hardware, software, and services platforms.

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Atos and Cisco
shared vision
Creating extra customer value for an increasingly connected world.

Atos and Cisco bring distinctive skills and We can help you be one step ahead of the Our customers know they can rely on us,
experience to our partnership. Together, we competition, using experience gained from because our vision is to create real value for
share a vision and the capability to succeed in working with thousands of customers around them. We’ve been working alongside each
today’s and tomorrow’s connected world. the world. We can give you access to market- other for many years, successfully delivering
leading technology delivered by experienced world-class solutions to our customers. Atos
We provide solutions that will support and business technologists. and Cisco understand each other’s business,
help manage change and exploit the benefits respect each other’s skills, and know what we
it creates. We work with you to transform can achieve together.
business processes, create new productivity
platforms, and achieve significant cost savings “If you want the strength and depth of the Cisco portfolio
and operational efficiencies.
combined with the deep knowledge and service capability of
We also believe passionately that trends in Atos business technologists…
connectivity and IT are creating all kinds of
new business opportunities for the future. The
task for companies is to recognize where those
If you want the technology and the ability to use it…
opportunities lie, and to implement solutions
that deliver their full potential. If you want to truly thrive in the connected world…
You’ll be amazed what we can do together.”

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A great
partnership
Atos and Cisco offer more than just an
aggregation of skills and experience. Our
distinctive and unique approaches to today’s
Securing success for our customers
business challenges spur innovation. We help
many clients across the world, using solutions Leading Austrian manufacturer Global energy specialist cuts
shaped by our combined business and achieves data center integration infrastructure costs
technology know-how.
Server-based computing objectives are being Standardized and centralized IT services
supported across the company’s integrated significantly reduce the total cost of
Atos and Cisco can also tap into a shared
external sites, with data center services ownership of the firm’s IT infrastructure.
partner ecosystem, which brings together
delivered 24x7. The technology supplied The solution focuses on data center and
industry-leading technology providers to create
is reliable and conforms to service-level office LAN and security services, enterprise
customer solutions that are fully integrated
agreements (SLAs), and includes an array of back-office services, server and workplace
and validated. The breadth and depth of these
network and communications components: management services, and database, file,
relationships can bring real benefits in terms of
wired and wireless services, Internet access, storage, and backup/restore services.
both capability and deployment.
application acceleration, network access
control, Cisco UCS®, and videoconferencing. Western European
telecommunications company
Local government in Central positioned for new business
Eastern Europe protects its data
Providing new multimedia services for
Upgrading the government’s IT infrastructure residential and business customers and
achieves SIS secure data exchange, both value-added services for ADSL customers
internally and with external networks. represents a great opportunity for business
The solution includes delivery, installation, growth. The company can now offer these
and configuration of firewalls, blade services via a network infrastructure that
chassis, software for desktop virtualization enables content distribution services in
and consolidation, software for server wholesale mode.
virtualization and consolidation, and middle-
range storage. Asia Pacific bank transforms
its operations
German manufacturer
outsources for efficiency Hosted core banking system and
network services are transforming the
Outsourcing its entire network and bank’s competitiveness, using reliable
telecommunications infrastructure for and leading network- and
all locations in Germany enables the communications-based technology.
manufacturer to modernize and optimize
systems and end-user devices. The solution
provides a LAN network, including WLAN,
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
(DHCP), DNS, and firewalls for all 15,000 Proven and powerful
ports. The corporate WAN is based on Atos and Cisco have achieved cost savings,
Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) via greater efficiency, optimized processes,
directional radio links. and innovation in many business areas,
such as:

u
uApplication delivery

u
uCollaboration

u
uCloud

u
uData centers

u
uManaged services

u
uNetwork transformation.

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Canopy, the Atos cloud
Canopy is backed by three of the best-known technology pioneers in the
industry – Atos, EMC, and VMware. Purpose built for the cloud, we combine
years of experience in infrastructure, security and hardware, with a fresh
new approach to technology advice and knowledge-sharing.

Canopy focuses on your business goals. We focus on the technology


so you can focus on what it can do for your company. Our offerings
range from cloud infrastructure and private cloud to platform offerings,
application development and strategic consultancy. Our vision is to
become a leading global services aggregator in the cloud.

“At Canopy, we aim to deliver trusted cloud


capabilities for our customers. We listen to
their business challenges and realize
technology is just an enabler. We stand
by our commitments, guaranteeing the
highest standards of security and the
reliability expected by global enterprises and
governments. Powered by three of the biggest
leaders in IT, we use our experience as the
largest European cloud computing company to
deliver innovation that allows clients to
stay ahead of their competition.”
Jacques Pommeraud, CEO, Canopy

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Feel confident in the
connected world
World-class solutions delivered by business technologists
you can trust.
Connectivity is exciting. It offers organizations Another by-product of effective connectivity If cloud services offer the right solution for
great new opportunities for productivity, is greater collaboration. Atos and Cisco will you, Atos will provide all the tools and
improved working conditions, and work with you to optimize new enterprise processes needed for success through our
competitiveness. But it can also present social collaboration tools, transforming Canopy cloud services joint venture. Canopy
challenges and risk. knowledge sharing and the speed of is a highly secure, single-source cloud and
decision making. We will help introduce web workflow platform, offering full-spectrum cloud
Look at how the revolution in mobility and the conferencing to bring remote staff together, strategy from modeling and realization to
Internet of Everything is leading to increased saving travel costs and making the most orchestrated performance.
smartphone and tablet use among your staff. efficient use of expert knowledge.
Imagine the boom in personal interactions Ready for the future
from fast and easy enterprise networking. We can also assist you in managing big data,
Think about the explosion in big data and the applying our complementary skills to create Atos and Cisco have worked well together for
extra demands on your computing resources. a truly application-centric infrastructure. You many years, developing and implementing
will be positioned to exploit the opportunities imaginative business solutions. Now we are
Atos and Cisco will support you and your created by big data, radically optimize and working together even more closely, providing
business through these challenges. accelerate in-house and remote applications, a more powerful partnership to help clients
run your networks more efficiently, and gain embrace the connectivity challenges and
We can make sure you have a mobility strategy control and better management of IT resource opportunities of the future.
to encourage business innovation. We can consumption with transparency of costs.
help your people be even more productive,
and manage new data consumption models
without compromising security.

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About Atos About Cisco
Atos SE (Societas Europaea) is an international Cisco is the worldwide leader in networking,
information technology services company with transforming how people connect,
2013 annual revenue of €8.6 billion and 76,300 communicate, and collaborate. Founded
employees in 52 countries. Serving a global in 1984, Cisco pioneered the development
client base, it delivers IT services in 3 domains, of IP-based networking technologies.
Consulting & Technology Services, Systems
This tradition continues with the development
Integration and Managed Services & BPO, and
of routing, switching, and other networking-
transactional services through Worldline. With
based technologies, such as collaboration,
its deep technology expertise and industry
data center, security, video, and wireless. All of
knowledge, it works with clients across the
these technologies are made possible due to
following market sectors: Manufacturing, Retail &
the evolution of the network as the platform for
Services; Public sector, Healthcare & Transports;
connectivity across multiple media.
Financial Services; Telco, Media & Utilities.
As an innovator in the communications and
Atos is focused on business technology that
information technology industry, Cisco and its
powers progress and helps organizations to
valued partners sell Cisco® hardware, software,
create their firm of the future. It is the Worldwide
and services to businesses of all sizes,
Information Technology Partner for the Olympic
governments, and service providers.
& Paralympic Games and is quoted on the NYSE
Euronext Paris market. Atos operates under Learn more at www.cisco.com.
the brands Atos, Atos Consulting & Technology
Services, Worldline and Atos Worldgrid.
For more information, visit: atos.net

For more information, contact: dialogue@atos.net

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March 2014 © 2014 Atos.

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