Orange’s vision of the integrated digital life it offers its customers is compelling.

From backing up date on your phones to providing instant sharing options for pictures, videos and other files, monitoring security to automating energy use at home, everything is connected. Orange aims to further its role in the center of your life. To do so, the company is pushing into services well beyond simple connectivity. When Philippe Moreaux and his team reviewed Orange’s existing infrastructure and service assets, they quickly realized that they had a problem catering to these fully integrated services.

Orange wanted to provide seamless data across all access options, from phones to set-top boxes, making all files, emails, messages and services available regardless of how a user would look at it. While they had a good idea of their short-term plans, they knew that the future would bring even more challenges for their infrastructure. Philippe knew that data formats would change, data amounts would quickly increase and APIs for accessing the data would morph rapidly. What Orange was looking for was an infrastructure that would allow them to pool all the data – from emails to personal drive to Internet-of-Things and more – and grow with the subscriber base and allow for lightning capacity growth. All at low cost. And with multiple, standard APIs. Preferably leveraging standard hardware and allowing for use of any new hardware developed.