After Altice at the end of November, it is Cube Infrastructure's turn to put its shares up for sale according to several sources. Covage's 50% shareholder paid 66 million euros in 2012 to buy back its shares from Vinci. However, Morgan Stanley Bank was mandated to find a buyer on the basis of a valuation of €1 billion.

The group's EBITDA would now reach €35 million for a turnover of around €100 million. "These ratios are not relevant. We are talking about an activity in full explosion with a very low maturity. In reality, the main driver is rarity," points out a good connoisseur of the file.
Charged by several departments with deploying optical fibre, Covage has already connected 630,000 of the planned 2.2 million households. The company still hopes to win a few more contracts to reach 3 million catches, which would represent just under 10% of French households.
When all the cables are pulled, Covage will be one of the few players to have such a digital infrastructure in a significant portion of the country. Indeed, once this task is completed, operators will have to pay a fee to use their networks.

€1.8 billion to acquire half of the optical lines that SFR must deploy outside major cities. But this deal is criticized in the industry because many believe that the infrastructure has been oversold. Indeed, the line rental prices highlighted could not be applied.

On paper, there are many candidates for the acquisition of Covage: investment funds, other RIP players, in particular Altitude or major operators...

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Source : Les Echos.fr

How can we succeed in building IT infrastructures in a sustainable and perennial way for the next 20 years? What are the important elements to consider during the design phase?

Although it may seem easy to build data centers, it is a rapidly evolving industry. Indeed, today's rooms are becoming denser, servers consume more and more energy and are heavier. Modularity concepts are shaking up the market every month, the ranges are evolving rapidly to better meet users' needs....

This is why adaptability and modularity must be part of the solutions to these problems from the design phases. For example, choose modular cooling and electrical solutions, increase power and load during maintenance, design large equipment by oversizing it.
It can also be very useful to implement new Agile working methods. It is therefore essential to be flexible and adapt to these changes that can affect the project in a sustainable way.
Modularity is also an essential point during the design phase, especially if you choose an atypical location to set up your data center. However, legal or regulatory aspects may run counter to this modularity. It is therefore necessary to address these problems as soon as possible, as they often have incompressible deadlines...

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Source : Le Monde Informatique

Published by Objectif Fibre and its partners, this mapping of the optical fibre business has required more than a year of collaborative work. Developed as part of the Employment and Skills Development Commitment (EDEC), this tool aims to facilitate description, training and recruitment in this sector.


Expected by employment, training, companies and local authorities, this reference framework is divided into 26 job descriptions defining the corresponding profiles. These sheets thus complete the description of the job titles, the activity, the prerequisites, the missions or the development prospects.


This publication confirms the dynamism of the players in the fast-growing optical fibre market and the collective intelligence at the service of the France Very High Speed Plan. The deployment of the HSBB is a major challenge since it represents 22,000 job creations by 2022 with an average of 3,800 new hires each year in various fields.

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Source : InfraNum

Many thanks to all of you for your interest in this event.

See you on Tuesday, March 5th at 6:30 pm at the TUBA for this evening debate on the theme "Emotional Quotient: New Measurement of Intellectual and Functional Skills in Business". The whole closed with a cocktail reception.

We are closing the registrations today.

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Interviewed by LeMagIT, Olivier Micheli notes that French data centers are finally attracting international cloud players and that they are expanding geographically in order to reduce latency.

Olivier Micheli, who is both CEO of Data4 Group and President of the France Datacenter Association, estimates that there are 200 large datacenters in France covering up to 10,000 m². The capital with the largest number of people because Paris is a European interconnection node.
There are between 3000 and 5000 private computer rooms of varying size and power across the country.
Beyond the desire of companies to control their equipment, the importance of ever lower latency is increasingly important in local economic activities and the development of smart cities.
According to Olivier Micheli, the market is moving towards data centres whose size is proportional to the size of the economic activity nearby.

After a slow period between 2012 and 2015, the French data center market has caught up. France is now in fourth place in Europe, tied with Ireland. There are several reasons for this: the opportunity for international companies to reach 67 million people from locally hosted IT resources, the geostrategic importance of Marseille and also the government's efforts to create favourable conditions for the development of these datacenters.
This finally allows France to align itself with the United Kingdom, Germany and the Netherlands.

The customers of these data centers are 70% of public cloud players such as Amazon, AWS but also publishers such as Salesforce. User companies want a lot of support.

The first issue for datacenters is, according to Olivier Micheli, connectivity. Indeed, companies now want to benefit from an offshore computer room in order to redistribute this data to users and Internet actors.
The second challenge is that of intelligent buildings and to achieve 100% renewable energy by using, for example, Free Cooling.

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Source : LeMagIT

According to International Data Corporation, the consumption of suppliers of servers, storage solutions and network equipment and software accounted for 44% of sales in 2018. These investments are expected to increase by an average of 6% per year and represent $426 billion over the next three years. Investments by cloud and digital service providers are expected to grow the most to reach $105 billion (+9% per year on average). Purchases by providers of hosting and colocation services amounted to $67 billion, representing an average annual growth rate of 7%.

However, there is a wide disparity between regions of the world. Indeed, if the share of these investments in the United States should increase to 47% in 2022 (compared to 44% today), Western Europe's share will not change and will remain at 12%.

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Source : Le Monde Informatique

Join us for our evening debate followed by a cocktail reception on Tuesday, March 5th at 6:30 p.m. at the TUBÀ on the theme "Emotional Quotient: New Measurement of Intellectual and Functional Skills in Business".


Peter Salovey and John D. Mayer have identified Emotional Intelligence as "a form of social intelligence that involves the ability to observe one's own feelings and the feelings of others, to separate them and to use this information to guide one's thoughts and actions".

After having defined in more detail what is meant by Emotional Intelligence or Emotional Quotient, we will see how it is used today to serve companies, particularly during the recruitment process or in management. Our four speakers will then discuss the subject based on their experience or analysis of the phenomenon.

Program

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Intervenantes

Dr. in psychology, lecturer, coach and trainer, Lisa Bellinghausen has a passion for emotion. For the past ten years, she has been helping managers and company directors to "realign themselves emotionally" in order to (re)find a balance between professional and personal life and thus increase their performance. In 2017, she and a colleague created a new model of emotional intelligence to capture emotions and gain emotional agility: the 7-step Emotionally Intelligent Process.

Catherine Dou Eustaquio, an engineer by training, has been working in sales and management positions in IT and Telecom for more than 30 years. Considering her job as a sales representative as that of a consultant who will, above all, understand the problems of her clients before providing answers, she favours listening. Catherine is also ambassador for France within her company of the "WIT" group, which aims to promote women in IT jobs.

After an international career, Laurence Doumba Kinda holds a double position at Apec. As an HR consultant, she assists innovative companies with their recruitment, attractiveness and loyalty projects. Community Manager, she leads communities on social networks. Involved in social issues, she is president of the BPW Lyon club, which works for professional and wage equality and fights against discrimination. She is also secretary of the Women's Economic Network.

A university graduate, Nadia Boulegroun, HRD by profession, has supported various organizations, from service to international solidarity and digital. She is currently an HR consultant in the Biotechnologies sector and founder of HiTiJob Academy, an institute dedicated to the training of high-potential profiles wishing to reorient themselves towards digital professions.

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See you on March 05th for a 10ᵉ edition under the theme "Emotional Quotient: New Measurement of Intellectual and Functional Skills in Business".

An evening of discussion with four speakers from the fields of HR, Behavioral Research and of course IT & Telecom.

A round table, moderated by Elodie Mervelay (Rezopole), with as guests:

• Lisa Bellinghausen : Share Consultant & Teacher Emotions Researcher - Qualia Conseils
• Catherine Dou Eustaquio : Account Director - Zayo
• Laurence Doumba Kinda: Consultant in Corporate Relations & Social Media - Apec
• Nadia Boulegroun: HR Consultant & founder of HiTiJob Academy

More information coming soon....

A beautiful evening between professionals to start this year 2019 in style!

It was at the Burger & Wine Confluence that the participants met to discover the news of the sponsor of this event, Hopus.

A big thank you to all of you. Discover the best pictures by clicking here...

Photographe : Marine-Agathe GONARD / AGATHE PHOTOS

Revolution for the Domain Name System! To maintain the stability of hosted domain names since the introduction of the EDNS standard in 1999, several DNS servers have simply implemented patches. However, since February 1, patches that do not comply with the EDNS update have been removed. This can therefore lead to malfunctions or even the deletion of domain names hosted on these servers.

A tool is available on the DNS Flag Day website to test your domain name. "This change will make most DNS operations slightly more efficient and will also allow operators to deploy new features, including mechanisms to protect against DDoS attacks," says the dedicated site.

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Source : Le Monde Informatique

See you on March 12th and 13th! The BGP protocol, founder of the Internet, is necessary to interconnect to an IXP. Rezopole offers two days of training to provide you with the basics of BGP routing and guide you towards autonomy.
Combining theoretical courses and practical work, this workshop allows you to gradually and completely approach the different aspects of BGP such as peering and the use of Route Server. From the 1st day, you set up your first session.
You will also discover how the protocol works and how to configure it on different devices such as Bird, Cisco, Mikrotik, Quagga and the techniques to announce and filter networks in both IPv4 and IPv6.  
You will be able to manage and control your Public IP network. You will gain in reliability, independence and reactivity towards transit suppliers.

Price: 1000 € (Ex-VAT) per attendee during 2 days (lunch included)!

This training may be covered by your OPCA (Rezopole activity number: 84691581469).

Do you want to participate? Just send us an email.

The registration closing date is on March 8th, 2019.

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Submitted last autumn by the Association of Alternative Telecommunications Operators, the request for an opinion to separate Orange's retail and infrastructure sectors into two separate entities was rejected on 30 January by the French Competition Authority. Indeed, the competition police do not consider it useful to give a favourable follow-up to the study of this referral for an advisory opinion.


The 45 operators that make up the AOTA protest against "repeated problems of access to the Civil Engineering of the Orange operator inherited from the national public domain of telecommunications, itself used by Orange to operate its copper network and constitute a passive shared fibre network currently unavailable in activated mode for competition."


However, the association does not intend to stop there, since it now plans to call on Brussels to defend its positions: "the association takes note of this decision by the independent administrative authority responsible for protecting consumers, whether residential or economic, from unfair practices on the part of private interests. It now also intends to refer the same matter to the European Union in order to obtain its opinion and, if necessary, to take the necessary corrective action to ensure that competition is conducted in a healthy and fair manner on the French telecommunications market."

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Source : ZDNet

In recent weeks, there has been a real rush by mainstream operators of national scope on alternative BtoB operators. This is the case, for example, of Iliad's acquisition of a stake in Jaguar Network or Bouygues Télécom's acquisition of Keyyo and Nerim.
While the operators concerned did not comment, Channelnews interviewed 4 of their colleagues to decipher this new phenomenon: Patrice Bélie from Adista; David Brette from Sewan; Lionel Marchaud from Hexanet and Laurent Silvestri from OpenIP.


Structured around 5 questions, these interviews make it possible not only to analyse this movement but also its consequences: is this impulse not the consequence of the financial precariousness of alternative operators; is this process not the sign of the failure of Arcep's policy to perpetuate this ecosystem of alternative operators?
Topics such as the loss of innovation capacity, responsiveness and agility needed by the SME customers of these alternative operators and the future of this phenomenon are also discussed.

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Source : Channelnews

Organized by Les Bricodeurs with Ada and Simone, this training will allow you to understand and practice Blockchain technology in 2 days!

Rendez-vous on March 4th & 5th from 9:30 am to 17:00 pm at the TUBA (145 Cours Lafayette 69006 Lyon) with Benjamin Farragi, Blockchain specialist, CEO and founder of Spuro.

A complete program:

• Strategic impacts
• Methodological approach
• The legal aspects
• Major features include
• The architectures
• The tools of the Blockchain
• Digital assets
• Applications and uses
• The prospects for the future

Register now by clicking here.

CRiP, the association of the French-speaking user community of IT Infrastructure & Production, is organising the 4th stage of its Tour de France 2018 / 2019 "Architectures & Infrastructures IT" in Lyon. Rendez-vous on Wednesday, February 13th from 8:30 am to 1:30 pm in April's offices.

This conference will be an opportunity to share several real-life user feedback on different topics:

- HOMESERVE: Project deployment time, production start-up frequency, incident resolution time... DevOps (in an ETI) to meet these objectives (by Franck Bonnassieux, CTO, & Manuel Dusquesnoy, Tech Lead)
- ENEDIS: Project "If I had known... "or Artificial Intelligence for IT Production (by Michael GRANGEON, Production Manager - Data Division, Sanaa ZAHHARI, Data Scientist, & Michaël GUILLAUME, Product Owner)
- CARREFOUR: Chatbots: multiple uses (by Olivier MICHEL, Head of Tools & Transformation Support)
- SANOFI : SOC Project phase 2 : define a local strategy in terms of tools, processes, resources & logistics (by Jerôme LEJEAU, Security Manager)



More information about the event can be found here.