HPE and CHEOPS TECHNOLOGY provide Olympique Lyonnais soccer
club's holding company with a next-generation IT environment to
support the development of its new entertainment offerings
- HPE's solution cuts the energy footprint of OL Groupe's data
centers in half and helps it meet its energy efficiency commitments
to reduce its power consumption by 20% each year
- HPE's solution based on HPE ProLiant and HPE Alletra multiplies
by four the performance of the data center hosted in the Groupama
Stadium, owned by OL Groupe
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) today announced that OL
Groupe has selected the HPE GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform to
modernize its entire on-premises infrastructure. The HPE solution
enables OL Groupe to increase its agility to deploy IT resources,
reduce its environmental footprint and accelerate the development
of its new entertainment offerings to its millions of fans
worldwide.
The OL Group owns the Olympique Lyonnais professional soccer
club and operates its own stadium, the Groupama Stadium, located in
Décines-Charpieu, 365 days a year. The group operates in many
domains such as soccer and other major sports events and
entertainment. The group needed to evolve its technology
environment and meet the very strong requirements of these
activities in terms of availability, agility, security, resilience,
and profitability.
A flexible architecture to meet the group's new
offers
As part of the renewal of its equipment, OL Groupe called on HPE
and its partner CHEOPS TECHNOLOGY to provide integration and
managed services, as well as to design and deploy a modern and
resilient on-premises technology platform, distributed over two
data centers hosted within the Groupama Stadium, in order to
respond to the rapid development of new services, while allowing
better cost management.
This new platform, delivered on a pay-per-use basis with HPE
GreenLake and managed from a single cloud interface, leverages HPE
Alletra cloud-native data infrastructure and HPE ProLiant
high-performance general-purpose servers.
The main missions of this new software-defined platform are
to:
- Ensure business continuity 365 days a year, 24 hours a
day, via a rapid disaster recovery solution running on two
separate data centers and capable of providing greater resiliency,
including HPE data protection solutions and HPE StoreOnce backup
appliances that support all stadium data streams.
- Improve visitor safety in the stadium, with expanded
computing and storage capabilities for better management of video
surveillance devices and higher image definition.
- Improve performance, to support the development of OL
Groupe activities and the multiplication of public events,
concerts, sports and esports competitions, especially during the
operation phase of the future LDLC Arena, owned by OL Group, by the
end of 2023.
- Control its environmental impact by using an efficient
and flexible on-premises technology platform to avoid
over-provisioning while cutting energy costs in half.
Addressing environmental issues through technology
As the first French League 1 soccer club to be awarded a label
certifying its action for the preservation of the environment1,
Olympique Lyonnais reaffirms its commitment to the environmental
cause by choosing the HPE GreenLake solution. This solution has
enabled OL Groupe to reduce the energy cost of its IT structure by
nearly 50% and is helping it to achieve its bold objective of
reducing its energy footprint by 20% each year.
Specifically, the new HPE infrastructure and services delivered
by CHEOPS TECHNOLOGY have enabled the group to increase its
computing capacity fourfold and improve its storage, all while
reducing the demand on resources to power and cool it and ensuring
that additional capacity is always available.
"The continuation of our collaboration with HPE allows us to
fully enter the concrete phase of our energy efficiency plan, with
the objective of reducing our energy consumption by 20% while
guaranteeing the continuation of our sports and entertainment
activities," said Emmanuelle Sarrabay, Deputy Director General for
Finance and Information Systems and Corporate Legal Affairs. "The
challenge is to deliver the best service and an optimized fan
experience and we have full confidence in HPE's teams to help us
achieve our goals with their expertise.”
"We are very proud of the choice made by Olympique Lyonnais to
modernize its technology environment and commit to the environment
with HPE technologies," said Alain Melon, general manager of
Hewlett Packard Enterprise in France. “Our HPE GreenLake platform
provides Olympique Lyonnais with a scalable and flexible
infrastructure capable of meeting the group's future technology
needs to continue to deliver an exceptional experience to its fans
and visitors."
CHEOPS TECHNOLOGY, a long-time Platinum Partner of HPE and
Olympique Lyonnais, brought its expertise and experience to enable
a seamless installation of the infrastructure and continues its
collaboration with future projects, such as the LDCL Arena, a
16,000-seat event venue owned by OL Groupe that will open in the
last quarter of 2023.
“We are delighted to continue the adventure with Olympique
Lyonnais alongside HPE,” said Claude FOURNIER, Regional Director of
CHEOPS TECHNOLOGY. “In 2015, when we implemented the previous
infrastructure, the qualities sought were mainly performance,
resilience and security. During this renewal, we added a strong
criterion on the environmental impact. The gains obtained are in
line with the objectives of our service centers which continue to
ensure the daily remote operation of this new architecture.”
Additional Resources:
- To learn more about HPE GreenLake, visit
hpe.com/greenlake.
- To learn more about OL Groupe, visit ol.fr.
- Pour en savoir plus sur CHEOPS TECHNOLOGY, visit
cheops.fr.
About HPE GreenLake
The HPE GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform enables customers to
accelerate data-first modernization and provides cloud services
that can run on-premises, at the edge, in a colocation facility,
and in the public cloud. In its final fiscal quarter of 2022, HPE
reported Annualized Revenue Run-Rate (ARR) of $936 million with
total as-a-service orders growth of 33% compared to the prior-year
period. HPE GreenLake has 65,000 customers, powers more than two
million connected devices and manages more than one exabyte of data
under management with customers worldwide. These organizations
benefit from one control plane from which to automate, orchestrate,
and run their hybrid cloud strategy. The scalable, pay-as-you go
HPE GreenLake platform also delivers robust security, compliance,
and control, and supports a broad partner ecosystem – including
channel partners, distributors, independent software vendors,
public cloud providers, service providers, and system integrators.
For more information on HPE GreenLake, please visit:
https://www.hpe.com/us/en/greenlake.html
About Olympique Lyonnais Groupe
Organized around Olympique Lyonnais, a soccer club founded in
1950 and chaired by Jean-Michel Aulas since 1987, OL Groupe is a
leading player in the entertainment and sports sector in France,
listed since 2007 (Euronext Paris). Olympique Lyonnais has won 53
titles, including 32 with the women's team (15 French
championships, 9 French cups and 8 UEFA Women's Champions League)
and 21 (including a record 7 consecutive L1 titles) with the men's
team, which participated in its 24ème European cups this season.
This approach to parity is also reflected in the creation of its
mixed Academy, whose U19 team won the Gambardella Cup 2022.
Since the inauguration of its new stadium in January 2016,
Olympique Lyonnais, like the biggest European clubs, has had a 100%
private, ultra-modern and multifunctional stadium, open 365 days a
year, which is part of a global strategy, offering entertainment
activities in the sports, artistic, cultural and corporate fields.
In addition to the stadium, a project to build a new 16,000-seat
arena on the OL Vallée site, which will host concerts and sports
activities, is currently underway for delivery in late 2023.
About Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) is the global company
behind the world's leading edge-to-coud platform as a service,
which helps organizations accelerate business by harnessing the
value of all their data, wherever it resides. Building on decades
of rethinking the future and innovating to advance the way we live
and work, HPE delivers unique, open, and intelligent
technology-as-a-service solutions spanning compute, storage,
software, intelligent edge, high-performance computing, and
mission-critical solutions. With a consistent experience across all
cloud and edge environments, HPE solutions and services enable
customers to develop new business models and modes of engagement
and improve operational performance. For more information, visit
www.hpe.com
About CHEOPS TECHNOLOGY
CHEOPS TECHNOLOGY is a specialist in secure IT infrastructures
and is one of the leaders in Cloud Computing in France. Organized
in 4 Divisions, Cloud & Managed Services, Infrastructure,
Network-Security & Unified Communications, Technological
Modernization, CHEOPS TECHNOLOGY has obtained the highest expertise
labels delivered by the major players of the IT market. With its
600 employees and its 13 agencies in France, CHEOPS TECHNOLOGY
ensures the performance and availability of your information system
and guarantees a real proximity relationship.
1 According to a study published by the English association
Sport Positive,
https://www.sportpositiveleagues.com/ligue-1-2022-francais/
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