• Interconnection of Google Cloud Interconnect (GCI) with Business VPN Galerie
• Orange Business Services expands its cloud application ecosystem by partnering with an innovative leader

Paris, 30 September 2015 - Orange Business Services, a global communications operator and integrator, and Google Cloud Platform, a global technology leader, today announced the interconnection of Google Cloud Interconnect with Business VPN Galerie, the Orange Business Services secured cloud hub.

Through Business VPN Galerie, enterprises will have direct access to Google Cloud Platform data centers in North America, Europe and Asia via a secure, high-performance and managed network with a single and trusted partner. This collaboration between Google Cloud Platform and Orange Business Services provides enterprises with a network that can deliver business agility and the new ways of working offered by the cloud.

Go beyond the standard internet connection

Business VPN Galerie was launched in 2011 to anticipate the growing demand from multinational corporations (MNCs) in their digital transformation for high performance, secure access to Internet-based cloud and web services. It extends the Orange corporate VPN to the cloud via fully-secured gateways with end-to-end high performance and reliability.

The integration of Google Cloud Interconnect means that enterprises can use Google Cloud Platform services with higher availability and lower latency connections without having to traverse the public Internet.

“Business VPN Galerie is part of our Hybrid Network strategy designed to help enterprises cope with the predicted tripling of global IP traffic between 2014 and 2018. Orange Business VPN Galerie has become a premier choice for enterprises that are moving workloads to the cloud. Today more than 1,300 enterprises and more than 20 cloud partners – including Orange Cloud for Business, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Express Route, Salesforce, AWS, Ingenico, Cegid – trust us at over 33,000 sites around the world,” said Pierre-Louis Biaggi, Vice President, Networks, Orange Business Services.

About Orange Business Services

Orange Business Services, the Orange branch dedicated to B2B services, is not only a telecom operator, but also an IT solutions integrator and applications developer in France and around the world. Its 20,000 employees support companies in all areas of their digital transformation: mobile and collaborative workspaces; IT/cloud infrastructure; fixed and mobile connectivity; private and hybrid networks; applications for Internet of Things, 360° customer experience and Big Data analytics; and cybersecurity thanks to dedicated experts and infrastructure to protect information systems. More than 3,000 multinational organizations and 2 million SOHOs, enterprises and local authorities in France rely on Orange Business Services as their trusted partner.

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Orange is one of the world’s leading telecommunications operators with annual sales of 39 billion euros in 2014 and has 154,000 employees worldwide at 30 June 2015. Orange is listed on the NYSE Euronext Paris (symbol ORA) and on the New York Stock Exchange (symbol ORAN).

Orange and any other Orange product or service names included in this material are trademarks of Orange or Orange Brand Services Limited.

Source: Orange Business Services press release