9月28日：OVHcloud和CGI赢得了欧洲航天局的一项为期30个月的合同，用于构建用于存储和处理欧洲地球观测卫星数据的计算基础设施。
Sept 28 : OVHcloud and CGI have won a 30-month European Space Agency contract to build computing infrastructure to store and process Europe's Earth observation satellite data, the companies said on Monday.
这两家公司表示，这一奖项反映了欧盟委员会将战略工作负载转向欧洲供应商的举措，也是继4月份一项价值1.8亿欧元（2.05亿美元）的云服务招标仅授予四家欧洲公司之后的又一举措。
The award reflects the European Commission's push to steer strategic workloads to European providers and follows a €180 million ($205 million) cloud tender handed exclusively to four European firms in April.
据这两家公司称，到2035年，欧洲航天局预计将拥有超过500拍字节的地球观测数据。
ESA expects to hold more than 500 petabytes of Earth observation data by 2035, the companies said. The new system, called Digital EO, will pool storage, computing power and AI tools for researchers, public bodies and companies, and connect to existing national and European facilities.
这个名为Digital EO的新系统将为研究人员、公共机构和公司提供存储、计算能力和人工智能工具，并与现有的国家和欧洲设施相连。
ESA expects to hold more than 500 petabytes of Earth observation data by 2035, the companies said. The new system, called Digital EO, will pool storage, computing power and AI tools for researchers, public bodies and companies, and connect to existing national and European facilities.
作为欧洲最大的云服务提供商，OVHcloud将提供计算、存储和网络容量；而IT咨询和系统集成公司CGI将担任架构师和集成者的角色。
OVHcloud, Europe's largest cloud provider, will supply the computing, storage and network capacity. CGI, an IT consulting and systems integration firm, will act as architect and integrator.
OVHcloud首席执行官Octave Klaba在一份声明中表示：‘欧洲绝对必须掌控运行其最关键项目的基础设施。’
"Europe absolutely must have control over the infrastructure that runs its most strategic programmes," OVHcloud CEO Octave Klaba said in a statement.
早些时候，在9月份，欧洲航天局还向由芬兰ICEYE和意大利Leonardo领导的团队颁发了平行研究合同，要求他们为欧盟政府设计一个专注于安全的地球观测架构。该系统将在意大利、法国和德国部署，支持运营则由波兰负责。
ESA is racing to upgrade how Europe handles satellite imagery. Earlier in September, it awarded parallel study contracts to teams led by Finland's ICEYE and Italy's Leonardo to design a separate, security-focused Earth observation architecture for EU governments.
该系统旨在服务于包括欧盟地球观测计划Copernicus以及欧盟的地球数字孪生项目DestinE在内的多个项目。’
The system will be deployed in Italy, France and Germany, with support operations run from Poland. It is designed to feed programmes including the European Union's Earth observation programme, Copernicus, and the EU's digital twin of Earth, DestinE.
OVHcloud和CGI表示，该合同的价值为‘数百万欧元’，但欧洲航天局并未透露具体金额。
OVHcloud and CGI said the contract had a value of "multi-million" euros. ESA did not disclose a figure.