Ce partenariat vise à offrir aux entreprises et institutions une infrastructure de confiance permettant de traiter et d’augmenter des données pour les mettre à disposition dans des applications cloud tout en garantissant leur confidentialité et leur intégrité. En combinant l’expertise de Clever Cloud en matière de cloud autonome et sécurisé et la technologie d’anonymisation avatar d’Octopize, ce partenariat ouvre la voie à des usages avancés de la donnée, notamment dans les domaines sensibles comme la santé, l’industrie, etc.

This partnership aims to offer businesses and institutions a trusted infrastructure for processing and augmenting data and making it available in cloud applications, while guaranteeing its confidentiality and integrity. By combining Clever Cloud's expertise in autonomous and secure clouds with Octopize's avatar anonymisation technology, this partnership paves the way for advanced uses of data, particularly in sensitive areas such as healthcare and industry.

Towards a revolution in data use thanks to the avatar anonymisation solution

Thanks to its unique ability to generate anonymous synthetic data without compromising its statistical value, avatar software makes it possible to reconcile confidentiality, compliance and innovation. The aim is clear: to simplify and accelerate the re-use of sensitive data in complete confidence.

This partnership comes at a key time for Octopize, which is preparing to unveil a new, refactored version of its avatar software. This redesign will include a new web client optimised for user experience (UX), making the anonymisation of avatar data even more fluid and accessible.

Avatar to complete the Clever AI offering

Last February, Clever Cloud announced the launch of an alpha version of Clever AI, a set of solutions designed to facilitate the adoption of AI in businesses, while taking account of their security and traceability constraints. Clever AI currently enables companies to aggregate several LLMs, configure rules to prevent data leakage in prompts, track usage by team, etc. As part of this partnership, Octopize and Clever Cloud are currently working on integrating the new version of Octopize's software into the Clever AI ecosystem. The aim is to offer a service that will enable anonymised data to be leveraged and exploited in full compliance with regulations, while benefiting from the power of a high-performance European cloud. This is a major step forward in the AI world, creating a new way of designing datasets and creating an alternative AI ecosystem that is compatible with European sovereignty and values. This first deployment is part of a wider drive to collaborate and increase the power of sovereign data infrastructures, a strategic challenge for companies wishing to exploit their data assets while complying with the strict regulations in force, thanks in particular to Clever Cloud's ISO 27001 and Health Data Hosting (HDS) certifications, as well as the possibility of hosting the most sensitive data in a SecNumCloud zone.

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More than just a service provider, Clever Cloud is at the heart of an ecosystem that brings together different initiatives. The fest was an opportunity to look back on the transformation that has taken place over the last few years, to talk about a number of products and to make some important announcements that reinforce its position as a leader in the secure, sovereign Cloud.

These announcements were made on Thursday 6 February at 2:00 PM during a keynote session accessible via social networks and live streaming platforms.

You can watch all the Clever Cloud Fest content live and in replay on YouTube and LinkedIn.

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New PaaS Initiative: towards a faster, ever more secure platform

Three years ago, Clever Cloud began to reinvent itself. Under the impetus of the new management team, which has gradually expanded, the company has taken advantage of its continued growth to expand its teams, building on its two historical strengths: technological excellence and security by design.

It has strengthened its strategic independence, and now has its own infrastructure in three Paris data centres, in addition to the deployment zones it offers in France and around the world with its partners.

It has successfully obtained ISO 9001, ISO 27001:2022 and, more recently, HDS certification for hosting healthcare data. Clever Cloud is thus reinforcing its position as leader in PaaS in Europe for public authorities, businesses and major accounts.

2025 will be the year in which Clever Cloud implements its plan for a new PaaS. Faster, more complete and easier to use, whether you're a developer, a solopreneur or a group of teams, the new Clever Cloud will meet your needs even better.

The broad outlines of this project will be unveiled by CTO Steven Le Roux during a presentation. It will be rolled out throughout the year.

Clever AI: adapting AI to business needs

Clever Cloud has announced the launch of Clever AI, a new range of products designed to adapt the integration of artificial intelligence to business constraints. It is multi-vendor, multi-model, and adds control and functionality to all the solutions on the market. Clever AI can be used in serverless mode, in dedicated instances or on-premises.

Based on the Otoroshi open source API Gateway, and developed in collaboration with Cloud APIM, Clever AI represents a major evolution in Clever Cloud's service offering. It is positioned as a complete platform enabling companies to aggregate numerous LLMs (Large Language Models), to create a connection with an IAM tool and also to set up usage rules, blocking certain keywords in prompts, for example, and thus preventing the disclosure of confidential information. In practical terms, Clever AI aims to enable AI to be used securely and in line with business requirements.

This solution offers :

• Compatibility with numerous AI providers, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Azure, DeepSeek, Gemini, Groq, x.AI, as well as European services such as Hugging Face, Lucie, Mistral, OVHcloud and Scaleway;
• Advanced features such as authentication, caching, logging, model selection and customisation, access to a personalised chat interface and Model Context Protocol (MCP) support;
• An administrator interface accessible via Console, API or CLI, making it easy for development teams to use and integrate with third-party tools;
• The ability to create custom prompt rules. This feature enables companies to effectively prevent the leakage of sensitive data when using AI models, and so define restrictions on the type of information that AI can process or generate, as well as customising AI interactions so that they comply with internal security policies;
• Integrated compliance and usage analysis tools to provide the traceability that the company needs to ensure the high level of monitoring required, but also to continue to ensure a certification policy.

‘With Clever AI, we offer our customers a sovereign, out-of-the-box solution for integrating AI into their business processes,’ says Quentin Adam, CEO of Clever Cloud. ‘Our platform enables businesses to quickly reap the benefits of AI while maintaining control over their data and processes.’

Clever AI is available in private alpha and for testing by Clever Cloud customers, marking an important step in the company's strategy to democratise access to AI technologies for businesses of all sizes. You can apply for early access before it goes public in a few weeks' time.

Clever Cloud unveils its FaaS

Clever Cloud is introducing its Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) solution, enabling developers to deploy and run individual functions without managing the underlying infrastructure, based on the Web Assembly Standard (WASM).

The exclusive WSR (Wasm Svm Runtime) technology is the result of several years' work by the Clever Cloud teams, who have developed a set of solutions for instant execution, as close as possible to the hardware layer, while remaining easy to use and open to various languages/runtimes.

What is FaaS?

Clever Functions is based on an event-driven architecture. Developers write functions that are triggered by specific events, such as :

• HTTP requests;
• Database modifications;
• Messages in a queue.

These functions are then deployed on a Cloud platform that automatically manages the allocation of the necessary resources.

The benefits of FaaS

FaaS brings cost benefits, allowing you to pay only for the time the function is used, and makes it easier to implement microservices. It can be used in a simplified way with all Clever Cloud solutions, including Clever AI.

Clever Functions is currently in private alpha. You can request early access before its gradual opening to all our customers.

Clever Cloud now offers a Kubernetes solution

Clever Cloud has its own orchestrator, designed to provide automated, optimised management of Cloud applications. At the same time, Kubernetes has established itself as a market standard that can be complex to implement at scale.

To meet our customers' expectations, we developed our own Kubernetes solution, with specific features to simplify long-term operational maintenance, incorporating Clever Cloud's expertise and DNA. To achieve this, our teams have developed a specific, compatible database that overcomes the major shortcomings of the Etcd component at the heart of Kubernetes deployments.

This technological approach means we can better meet our customers' needs, in terms of quality of service, functionality and scalability.

Kubernetes vs. the Clever Cloud orchestrator: a different approach

Kubernetes is an open-source container orchestrator that automates the deployment, scaling and management of containerised applications.

Historically, Clever Cloud has been a software developer for the Cloud, and then became a hosting provider. The strength of our solution lies in the creation of a virtual machine (VM) orchestrator that enables a modular, automated and scalable architecture to be created, with very few adaptations required during application development.

The advantage of this solution is that each machine is partitioned, unlike container-based operation where isolation is not total. As part of the market is using Kubernetes, it was natural for us to respond to this demand. So we're now offering our customers a managed and hardened Kubernetes solution, offering the same level of security and fluid experience as our orchestrator.

A Kubernetes approach from Clever Cloud

Unlike traditional Kubernetes implementations, our solution integrates natively with the Clever Cloud ecosystem. This means:

• Simplified configuration optimised to meet customers' core needs ;
• Seamless integration with other Clever Cloud services, including our CI/CD, database management and security tools;
• Tailored scalability, leveraging our experience in automated infrastructure management.

‘We've always seen Kubernetes as a technology that can become complex to manage over the long term if not properly imagined and managed. But we also know that it has become an unavoidable market standard. So our approach has been to rethink Kubernetes to integrate it with our philosophy: make the infrastructure invisible so that developers can concentrate on what they do best, develop.’ Quentin Adam, CEO of Clever Cloud.

Conceived as part of the CollabNext project, this Kubernetes solution is available as a private alpha and will be deployed to a growing number of customers over the course of 2025. You can request early access before it is gradually rolled out to all our customers.

The Materia range is expanding

Materia: a serverless, distributed database

In 2024, Clever Cloud announced the launch of Materia: a set of distributed, serverless data storage solutions designed for interoperability, automatically adapting to the amount of data being processed, from zero to infinity.

Replicated in our three Paris data centres, it ensures high availability and maximum resilience. Based on the same technological foundation as Apple CloudKit and Snowflake, it is compatible with many existing protocols, making it easy to integrate into applications.

The first version to be presented to the public was Materia KV, a key-value database. Today, Clever Cloud is proud to announce Materia KV JSON and Materia TS.

Materia KV JSON: simplified access to JSON data

Materia KV JSON allows you to store and access JSON objects in a single command, enabling you to make direct queries on the keys/values it contains.

The commands in this feature are compatible with the Redis® protocol and can therefore be used with any client in this ecosystem, including Valkey. Support for Materia KV JSON is part of the Materia experience, and comes at no extra cost.

Why Materia KV JSON?

• Storage and manipulation of JSON data directly in applications hosted on Clever Cloud or other service providers, without lock-in;
• A resilient solution by design thanks to its replication. When Materia KV responds, your data has been written three times;
• Simple to use, thanks to its serverless approach, access is instantaneous and there is direct integration with the Clever Cloud environment.

Materia KV JSON allows developers to manage structured objects without complexity. This functionality is currently in private alpha access. You can request early access before it is gradually made available to all our customers.

Materia TS: storage and analysis of time series

With Materia TS, Clever Cloud introduces a Time Series data management engine, based on Warp10, designed for applications requiring efficient analysis of events over a given period.

Main use cases

• Monitoring and observability: storage and querying of logs, metrics and events.
• Financial analysis: monitoring market fluctuations and transactional data.
• IoT and sensors: management of data flows generated by connected objects.

Materia TS provides storage adapted to the reading and analysis of time-stamped data, facilitating queries and the visualisation of trends.

Materia TS is deployed for certain customers. You can request early access before Materia TS is gradually rolled out to all our customers.

Clever KMS: Manage and secure your secrets

The new KMS service offers an advanced password and secret management tool. Developed specifically to meet the needs of an institutional customer, this solution enables secrets and encryption keys to be managed, and is designed to protect sensitive data while remaining simple to use.

Integration with existing ecosystems is at the heart of its design. Clever KMS can be used with any tool compatible with the Vault client (Hashicorp). This is what enabled us to integrate easily with Otoroshi.

Fonctionnalités principales

• Secure storage of secrets, API keys and certificates;
• Native encryption to protect data in transit and at rest;
• Integration with Clever Cloud applications, without complex configuration.

With KMS, Clever Cloud meets the growing need for security and compliance, while simplifying the management of secrets for developers. It can be deployed in serverless mode, in dedicated instances or on-premises.

Clever KMS is deployed for certain customers. You can request early access before it is gradually rolled out to all our customers.

Clever Cloud and Otoroshi: new features for more secure and flexible API management

Clever Cloud today announced the integration of new features into its Otoroshi-based API Gateway-as-Service offering, making API management more secure and flexible for businesses.

Otoroshi is an open-source solution created by Mathieu Ancelin, co-founder of Cloud APIM, that makes it easier to manage, secure and monitor APIs and microservices. It offers authentication mechanisms (OAuth2, OpenID Connect, Biscuit, JWT), as well as fine-grained access management via API Keys and quotas.

Its routing engine enables load balancing, failover and the application of advanced rules such as circuit breakers. Finally, it protects services against various attacks (DDoS, brute force, injections) and provides real-time monitoring tools.

Advanced security features and simplified access management

Otoroshi instances deployed on Clever Cloud now include:

• Biscuit support, with a complete Biscuit Studio suite for generating, verifying, mitigating and managing the roles of these secure tokens, enabling decentralised verification integrated with your APIs and services;
• Simplified configuration of the Coraza Web Application Firewall (WAF). This mechanism strengthens security by filtering malicious requests and blocking intrusion attempts before they reach backend systems;
• Simplified configuration of routes, API tokens and access protection for Clever Cloud applications, in conjunction with Network Groups;
• Native Clever KMS integration for secrets management.

‘API management offers a whole range of potential services to be developed. We'll be unveiling them over time.’ explains Steven Le Roux, CTO.

Otoroshi is now available on Clever Cloud with its LLM extension, Biscuit Studio and support for Clever KMS. Simplified integrations are undergoing public testing and will be rolled out later this year, along with a serveress offering.

Keycloak-as-a-Service: a secure multi-instance offering

The complete identity and access management solution has been available since last year, developed in conjunction with Please Open IT. Clever Cloud is proud to announce the availability of its secure multi-instance mode, an exclusive feature made possible by the creation of Network Groups. Keycloak can now be deployed in the form of a cluster within Clever Cloud, with communication between instances taking place via a Network Group, our secure network based on Wireguard. Everything is automatic.

Designed to meet the most stringent security and compliance requirements, Keycloak offers advanced services such as single sign-on (SSO), automatic scalability and centralised identity management.

Key features of Keycloak-as-a-Service include:

• Seamless integration with existing applications;
• Easy creation and import of realms;
• Advanced authentication and authorisation features (OAuth 2.0, LDAP, SAML, OpenID Connect, etc.);
• Automatic scalability to suit all user volumes;
• Compliance with the most stringent security and confidentiality standards;
• Ongoing maintenance, offering a simplified managed solution.

‘With Keycloak-as-a-Service, we're making identity management considerably simpler for our customers,’ says Quentin Adam, CEO of Clever Cloud. ‘This solution enables businesses of all sizes to benefit from a high-level IAM, without the usual complexity of implementation and maintenance, all for a price that we wanted to be particularly attractive.’

Keycloak on Clever Cloud has just been upgraded to version 26.1.0 and will be available in its final version shortly, benefiting from all the work carried out by our teams and Please Open It during the beta phase. To find out more about the benefits of Keycloak-as-a-Service, a full demo is available for replay on Clever Cloud's YouTube channel here.

Network Group: a step forward in network management

Clever Cloud makes it possible to deploy applications and services that are independent of each other, but which may also need to communicate via dedicated channels. Some customers have also asked us to be able to access their services within a secure network from third-party instances or from their machine.

This is how we came up with Network Groups, based on Wireguard technology and compatible with this market standard.

Network Groups bring greater flexibility to the management of network environments. This solution makes it easier to segment and secure inter-application communications on Clever Cloud. It also enables Keycloak to be deployed in multi-instance mode, or to control access to applications when used in conjunction with Otoroshi, demonstrating the potential synergies between our products.

Network Groups are part of a drive to improve the user experience by simplifying network configuration while offering advanced options for the specific needs of each customer. This feature marks an important step towards a more modular and secure infrastructure.

Network Groups are available to all our customers in public beta and will be enhanced with new integrations and features over the coming months.

Databases : Even more advanced management

The Managed Databases product range, which provides access to a database (PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Elastic, Redis®/Valkey, etc.), has also been enhanced.

Already equipped with a range of advanced features, such as automatic backups and on-demand configuration to suit requirements, the products in the database range now come with the ability to manage extensions automatically, enabling us to upgrade versions more quickly. Versions 16 and 17 of PostgreSQL are now available on Clever Cloud.

Our Elasticsearch and PostgreSQL offerings can be enhanced with extensions to order or after the fact, while benefiting from automatic migrations, with continuity of service for extensions too.

This feature enables us to adjust a set of extensions per database, and therefore per customer. The aim is to enable us to be more responsive while continuing to meet the sometimes specific needs of certain customers.

Clever Cloud unveils its Hypervisor-as-a-Service project

A few months ago, Clever Cloud announced a partnership with Vates, a French specialist in open source hypervisor solutions, to work on the creation of an on-demand Xen hypervisor solution for managing virtual machines (VMs). Today, we are proud to be able to present the first public demonstration of this project.

A response to companies' expectations in the face of market challenges

Since Broadcom's acquisition of VMware, the virtualisation ecosystem has been going through a period of uncertainty. The sharp rise in prices, the withdrawal of certain traditional offerings and the increasing technological lock-in have prompted many businesses to look for alternative, more open and independent solutions.

But beyond this context, demand for Hypervisor-as-a-Service (HaaS) solutions is growing, particularly for open source solutions. Companies want to take back control of their technological destiny by migrating to more sovereign solutions, without having to manage the complexity of maintaining them in operational condition.

The first bricks

In practical terms, this means that Clever Cloud is able to :

• Show an initial demonstration of how the Xen hypervisor works;
• Present usage scenarios and gather feedback from the first testers before opening up the service more widely;
• Refine the technical set-up to ensure a smooth, accessible experience. This demonstration validates the principles of virtualisation tailored to the needs of businesses that want to retain control over their infrastructure, without the constraints imposed by a single supplier.

A more complete and resilient Cloud

This announcement is part of Clever Cloud's commitment to providing the most comprehensive offering possible, combining IaaS, PaaS and turnkey services, to support businesses in all their infrastructure needs.

‘The announcement of our partnership with Vates generated a great deal of interest, and we're delighted to be able to demonstrate the first concrete applications. This project is part of our drive to offer a more open and sovereign infrastructure. We want to offer businesses a reliable and economically viable alternative that gives them back control of their infrastructures without imposing dependency,’ says Quentin Adam, CEO of Clever Cloud.

This project continues to evolve, with adjustments and optimisations based on user feedback, before being made more widely available in the coming months.

Azimutt, Mailpace, Metabase: numerous tools, a single platform

2024 was an opportunity for Clever Cloud to strengthen its Marketplace offering. Facilitated by its turnkey add-on providers solution, it enables any customer to create solutions that can be deployed on Clever Cloud within their account and their organisations.

But we are working with a number of partners to extend this availability to all our customers. As we have done with Keycloak and Otoroshi, we have opened up access to our platform to Mailpace and Metabase as well as Azimutt.

Azimutt is a member of our Up! start-up support programme, and we are working to simplify its integration into our platform. The service is now focused on analysing and understanding databases, with alert management, to complement our managed database offering.

Deployed via a Clever Cloud gateway for our customers, Azimutt is available as a free version or via paid subscriptions directly within our platform.

Over the course of 2025, we will be strengthening these partnerships, as well as taking advantage of the synergies between these services, as we are already doing with Mailpace and Metabase, or Keycloak and Otoroshi, which are used within Clever AI.

FrankenPHP, mise, Redirection.io, uv: responding to change

As ecosystems evolve, so do the needs of developers. Over the last few years we've seen far-reaching changes in application tooling, whether through the proliferation of JavaScript runtimes, or the arrival of solutions that are turning usage on its head, such as the uv package manager for Python or FrankenPHP.

Clever Cloud has chosen to embrace these transformations by natively integrating these tools, whose use will be simplified from the first months of the year. You can already use the meta packager, uv, shown in our latest images, to manage your Python applications and packages, while FrankenPHP will be available in the form of a dedicated runtime.

This modern PHP server is designed to improve the performance and flexibility of PHP applications. It has been developed by Kevin Dunglas, known for his work on API Platform and his involvement in the PHP and Symfony ecosystems.

What sets FrankenPHP apart from other PHP servers such as Apache + mod_php, Nginx + PHP-FPM or Caddy, is that it relies on Go and Caddy to offer more efficient execution and simpler configuration. In particular, it enables:

• Native execution of PHP applications without the need for PHP-FPM;
• Advanced management of workers and scalability;
• Improved integration with modern technologies, such as WebSockets and asynchronous workers.

FrankenPHP aims to simplify the deployment of PHP applications while optimising their performance, in particular by reducing latency and improving response time. Clever Cloud has decided to integrate FrankenPHP to offer PHP developers a more powerful and easy-to-use environment. With this support, Clever Cloud users will be able to simply run their PHP applications directly on FrankenPHP, benefiting from its optimisations and ease of management.

But the tools don't stop at putting applications into production. We are also gradually integrating solutions from partners such as Redirection.io to make it easier for our customers to use them in production, with the integration of their subscription-based offering.

Demonstrations of these different solutions will be held throughout Clever Cloud fest.

Clever Cloud Africa: a strategic partnership for a sovereign Cloud in West Africa

Clever Cloud and DataConnect, a subsidiary of New Digital Africa (NDA), are joining forces to co-build the first stage of a secure, sovereign Cloud in Côte d'Ivoire. This collaboration between Clever Cloud, a French creator of deployment and hosting solutions in PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service) mode, and the leading African provider of managed infrastructure services, marks an important step in the development of an autonomous digital ecosystem in West Africa. Already widely acclaimed by the Ivorian press, the actual launch of Clever Cloud Africa will take place in the second quarter of 2025.

This joint initiative, based on a shared vision between the two companies, aims to combine Clever Cloud's technological expertise with DataConnect's in-depth knowledge of African markets. The aim is to co-develop innovative Cloud solutions that meet the specific needs of businesses and public authorities in the region.

The partnership is based on several areas of collaboration:

• The co-creation of sovereign Cloud solutions tailored to local needs;
• Developing and training local IT talent;
• Strengthening the regional technology ecosystem;
• Supporting the digital transformation of organisations.

Quentin Adam, CEO of Clever Cloud, underlines the collaborative dimension of the project: ‘Through this partnership, our ambition is to contribute with our local partners to the emergence of talent and value in the regions. Côte d'Ivoire was an obvious choice for us to co-construct a sustainable value proposition for companies and public-sector players looking to build their strategic autonomy in West Africa.’

Cette collaboration, initiée en Côte d'Ivoire, a vocation à s'étendre progressivement à d'autres pays d'Afrique de l'Ouest et Centrale, en s'appuyant sur des partenariats locaux dans chaque territoire.

Le Clever Cloud Fest était l’occasion d’annoncer officiellement ce partenariat, en présence de Jean-Jacques N’Docho, Directeur Général Adjoint de NDA Group, qui a fait le déplacement depuis la Côte d'Ivoire.

Jeudi 6 février, en amont du Clever Cloud Fest, un petit-déjeuner dédié à l’international, organisé par la région des Pays de la Loire, fut l’occasion d’échanges entre la délégation ivoirienne et élus et chefs d’entreprises locaux.

Abidjan (Côte d'Ivoire), November 25, 2024 - Clever Cloud, a French creator of deployment and hosting solutions in PaaS (Platform as a Service) mode, and DataConnect Africa, a subsidiary of New Digital Africa (NDA), an African provider of managed infrastructure services for enterprises offering innovative, tailor-made solutions in connectivity, cloud, datacenter and cybersecurity, announce the first stage of the Sovereign and Secure Cloud in Côte d'Ivoire. This strategic initiative aims to strengthen the digital sovereignty and autonomy of African businesses and governments, while supporting their digital transformation.

This partnership, formalized in Abidjan on the fringes of the Assises de la transformation digitale en Afrique (ATDA) conference, is designed to position the Clever Cloud Africa initiative as a key player in the region, drawing on Clever Cloud's technological expertise and NDA's in-depth knowledge of African markets to provide businesses and administrations with secure solutions that meet the continent's strategic requirements.

This first step, which comes with the launch of NDA subsidiary DataConnect's secure, sovereign cloud offering, embodies a shared conviction: that digital sovereignty is essential to guarantee economic autonomy and stimulate growth in Africa. This partnership illustrates the commitment of New Digital Africa and Clever Cloud to co-create solutions that help retain value on the continent and strengthen the local value chain through inclusive partnerships.

Ange Kacou Diagou, CEO of New Digital Africa, commented: “Our Group is continuing to expand, and is forging new partnerships with leading international players to enhance our range of solutions for our customers and expand into new markets. Clever Cloud shares our values in building the levers of our strategic autonomy locally, with reliable solutions for public and private players. Security and resilience are part of New Digital Africa's DNA, and we're also putting this into practice today with the signing of this partnership to strengthen the Cloud offering of our subsidiary DataConnect Africa.”

A strategic location for a sustainable digital ecosystem

With the foundation stone laid in Abidjan, the Clever Cloud Africa initiative relies on the association of new local partners and investors. In West Africa, Clever Cloud Africa intends to expand into Benin, Senegal, Mali and Togo, before gradually extending into Central Africa, including strategic countries such as Cameroon and the DRC. As part of this deployment, Clever Cloud Africa will also support the development of local skills and the consolidation of R&D in these territories.

This project is part of a drive to create jobs and nurture talent in the IT sector, in order to build an inclusive and sustainable digital ecosystem that will enable African companies and public sector players to prosper while reducing their dependency, and truly building their strategic autonomy.

Quentin Adam, CEO of Clever Cloud, added: “Strengthening digital sovereignty is a necessity to preserve economic and strategic autonomy and guarantee future prosperity. Through this deployment in Africa, our ambition is to contribute, with our local partners, to the emergence of talent and value in these territories. Côte d'Ivoire was an obvious choice for us to co-construct a sustainable value proposition for companies and public players wishing to build their strategic autonomy in West Africa.”

About DataConnect Africa

DataConnect is Africa's leading provider of managed infrastructure services for the enterprise, offering innovative, tailor-made solutions in connectivity, cloud, datacenter and cybersecurity. Its 360° service offering includes hybrid connectivity solutions, SD-WAN solutions, business-critical application hosting, backup and disaster recovery and IT infrastructure colocation in a TIER III-level datacenter, as well as operational cybersecurity services. Committed to delivering world-class services, DATACONNECT holds ISO 27001 and PCI DSS certifications, testifying to its commitment to ensuring the security and protection of its customers' sensitive data.

About New Digital Africa

New Digital Africa is an African Group, leader in Information & Communication Technologies, covering the entire digital value chain through its subsidiaries Dataconnect (Telecoms, datacenter, cloud, cybersecurity) and Devolution (Data, process, applications, Artificial Intelligence). The Group is present in West and Central Africa through more than 300 corporate customers in 11 African countries and 4 country offices.

Clever Cloud is always on the lookout for new partners. Please do not hesitate to contact Erwan Rougeux, VP International Growth, if you have any questions.

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.