Decathlon, the world’s largest sporting goods retailer, has revealed its technology partners for providing a global platform for digital services.
Colt Technology Services, Equinix, Interxion – a Digital Realty Company, AWS, Google Cloud and Axians are the technology partners for Decathlon.
Colt is supplying connectivity for Decathlon’s regional hubs in Europe, Asia, and the US in the form of a high-bandwidth backbone to link multiple public clouds and SaaS services.
Decathlon will benefit from a centralized network solution compliant with high availability standards, its digital strategy and its expansion. The sporting goods retailer will also benefit from cut in the cost and burden of managing its own data centres.
Equinix and Interxion / DLR are the data centre partners delivering colocation sites to Decathlon. AWS and Google Cloud are the cloud partners of Decathlon. Axians will be delivering remote hands to Decathlon.
Decathlon now has on demand network connectivity that can be provisioned within minutes. That means an optimal quality of connectivity in the form of dedicated lines backed with SLAs, availability at the level of 99.99 percent, better performance with users located closer to cloud providers, and scalability as a result of connections that can be upgraded in less than a day.
“Decathlon has a secure, flexible and unified platform to support our cloud applications, allowing us to focus on network scalability automation; our goal is to build a predictive network based on user needs. New skill sets around NetOps, Network Data Analyst will be necessary to fulfil this ambition,” said Matthias Castelain, Head of Network at Decathlon.
