Atos is making the Olympic Games more sustainable

Source: Atos. Atos puts sustainable principles into practice at the Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Atos is working with the Olympic Movement and Organizing Committees to reduce the environmental footprint of the Olympic Games and increase their positive social legacy.

The company announced that the Olympic Games in Rio have enabled the upcoming Games from Pyeongchang 2018 onwards to move away from a one-time use model towards a sustainable, cloud-based solution based in Europe that can be used multiple times.

For the 2016 Olympic Games, 60% of Atos' operations were migrated to the cloud. Cloud computing results in a lower carbon footprint compared to premise-based or legacy systems, while virtualisation reduces the number of servers needed by over a half and then adds the advantage of access from anywhere, anytime, the company noted. Cloud computing also provides resiliency and availability for the large-scale event. Atos also observed that 719 servers were required at London 2012 but just 250 at Rio 2016, lowering energy consumption and in turn reducing the carbon footprint.

"The initiative to move the IT infrastructure to a cloud-based delivery model aims not only to reduce costs but also to minimise the environmental footprint in host cities. In this way we contribute to help leave the host city of the Olympic Games with the most sustainable environmental and social legacy," said the company in a statement.

“Atos’ IT systems allow for the instantaneous reporting and beaming of 6,000 hours of Olympic coverage to the world through both more traditional television means and digitally to billions of laptops, tablets and smartphones. Without Atos, the Olympic Games could not go on for the hundreds of thousands of athletes, employees, volunteers, media and fans in Rio, or for the billions who watch the Games around the globe,” said Michèle Hyron, Chief Integrator for Rio 2016.

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