Next Generation Data Center

In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, businesses are increasingly challenged to find IT solutions that are not only agile and cost-effective but also scalable to accommodate growth and innovation. Enter Next Generation Data Center (NGDC), a cutting-edge multi-tenant data center hosting solution specifically engineered to meet these critical needs.

Evolution of infrastructure

Examining the evolution of IT reveals an initial phase where a single application was hosted on a physical server. As the new century dawned, virtualization emerged as a transformative trend, allowing for improved hardware usage efficiency and quicker deployment times through the pooling of physical resources. This progress culminated in the emergence of the Software Defined Data Center (SDDC), where the virtualization of all three key components – compute, storage, and networking – is coordinated and augmented by a management layer for seamless orchestration and automation. The SDDC has become indispensable for the burgeoning DevSecOps movement and serves as the foundational architecture for public clouds.

Traditional IT

One application per physical server

App

OS

Server

Virtualization

Pooling of physical resources

App	App	App
VM	VM	VM
Hypervisor
Server

Software Defined Data Center

Policy based automation & orchestration

App

VM

Cloud Native
App

Management layer
SDDC Management, Orchestration, Automation, Portal

Virtual layer

VMs

Software Defined Storage

Software-Defined Networking

Physical layer

Servers

Storage

Networking

Next-Generation Data Center

Atos’ implementation of the SDDC

App

VM

Cloud Native
App

Management layer
VMware Aria, Ansible, Saltstack

Virtual layer

VMware vSphere

vVols

VMware NSX

Physical layer

BullSequana

DellEMC

Cisco

Juniper

Best of both worlds

Within the infrastructure continuum, NGDC sits between Private Cloud and Public Cloud, combining the strengths of both. It harnesses the scalability, flexibility, and pay-as-you-use characteristics inherent in Public Cloud while embracing the data sovereignty, privacy, proximity, and predictability offered by the Private Cloud.

Traditional IT infrastructure incl. mainframe

Private cloud

Public cloud

Hybrid cloud & multi-cloud services

Sovereign cloud

Edge services

The infrastructure continuum

Cloud Management Portal

The Cloud Management Portal (CMP), accessible to all NGDC customers, offers an intuitive platform designed for resource requests through an extensive catalog. This catalog empowers customers to select vital resources, which are subsequently deployed automatically end-to-end (from catalog to managed product), encompassing day 2 operations, thereby ensuring efficiency, speed and uniformity. Continuously enhanced and enriched, the portal consistently unveils new features and services. Furthermore, the catalog can be meticulously tailored to suit each customer’s unique needs, guaranteeing a personalized and optimized experience.

Relevancy

70+%

of enterprises use a hybrid cloud model

Source: Flexera

50+%

of critical enterprise applications will reside outside of public clouds through 2027

Source: Gartner

80+%

of organizations are repatriating data from public clouds for data sovereignty reasons

Source: IDC

Recognition

In 2024, Atos Belgium was awarded the Data Center Services Company of the Year award at the prestigious DataNews Awards for Excellence. DataNews added the following statement when announcing this award: “The jury makes a statement with this award. Atos was in difficult financial papers, but that is separate from their excellent service and that should be said out loud. The company offers a broad technology stack and is generally highly valued by the jury.”

How we make an impact

Flemish Government

Empowering Public Services

Under the ICT2022 framework contract, a multitude of agencies, departments and local authorities use Next Generation Data Centers to effectively implement policies for its citizens.