The Val-d’Oise habitat landlord migrates its data to the regional public data center

Le bailleur social Val-d'Oise habitat vient de transférer ses données informatiques au sein du data center public de la région Ile-de-France.

Posted Sep 28, 2022, 2:27 PM

The public data center in the Ile-de-France region continues to attract new beneficiaries. The social landlord Val-d’Oise habitat, which covers a stock of 20,000 housing units spread over 71 municipalities, has just transferred its computer data to this host located in Seine-et-Marne.

Created on the initiative of the Val-d’Oise department and the Val-d’Oise Numérique mixed syndicate in 2018, the regional public data center was initially to settle in Champagne-sur-Oise (Val-d’Oise), before finally moving to the neighboring department. Reserved for public bodies in the region, at the crossroads of the challenges of cost control, energy sobriety and digital sovereignty, this model is increasingly requested by local authorities.

Security and energy sobriety

The Ile-de-France region is the first to have taken the plunge in 2020. Since then, other public organizations have followed such as Inserm, the Val-d’Oise department, the regional health agency (ARS) d’Ile-de-France and universities such as CY Cergy Paris Université which rent space there.

“It is a territorialized pooling, which offers greater flexibility, greater reversibility and better IT security”, defends Rachid Adda, the director of the Economic Interest Grouping of Community Public Outsourcing (GIEIPC), the structure which manages the building, at the origin of the reflections initiated in 2015. “And the energy consumption is three times lower in this type of data center than in the clean rooms of each organization”, points out the latter.

This offer responds to the issue of computer data sovereignty

Rachid Adda director of the Economic Interest Group which manages the data center

In return, the information systems department retains control of the data and can adjust the spaces to be rented according to its needs. On a capacity of 900 bays, that is to say the metal cabinets in which the data is stored, Val-d’Oise habitat will occupy only one. For now, 150 are already occupied.

Alternative to private

The advantage is also economic for new entrants. The community public outsourcing economic interest grouping has no capital and is not entitled to make profits. “We just pass on the costs to the nearest euro, it’s like a condominium trustee”, illustrates Rachid Adda. In fact, each organization participates financially in proportion to the number of places it occupies.

“A dozen large cities in the region have already shown their interest,” says the director, while competition is raging with offers from private players such as Orange or OVH. This data center is thus an alternative to the private offer while the State has opened data centers solely intended for its central administrations. “This offer also responds to the issue of computer data sovereignty,” emphasizes Rachid Adda.

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