With Orange, digital sovereignty is moving from promises to infrastructure
Orange Business is expanding its ‘trusted cloud’ offering. ANSSI has just awarded SecNumCloud certification to a new Cloud Avenue environment, designed specifically for the most sensitive applications and data. The operator has already had an initial SecNumCloud-certified Cloud Avenue offering since July 2025. The new infrastructure goes further in terms of isolation and resilience: resources can be entirely… reserved for a single customer and distributed between the Val-de-Reuil and Chartres data centres, notably to ensure services remain operational in the event of an incident at one of the sites. Does this sovereignty stop at the model? The announcement is interesting for what it says – and does not say – about AI. Orange is adding servers equipped with GPUs, which are essential not only for training but also for running…