Atos announced today that it has signed a 10 year contract worth in excess of £100 million with EDF Energy, after a 12 month procurement process, to provide data centre services for its UK business in a bid to consolidate EDF Energy’s data centre infrastructure to cut costs by 20% over the life of the contract.

Ursula Morgenstern, CEO for UK and Ireland at Atos, said: “This contract extends our relationship with EDF Group and represents the start of a long term partnership between Atos and EDF Energy in the UK […] and demonstrates our strength in the UK market in infrastructure outsourcing.”

Under the new contract, Atos will provide EDF Energy with significant additional data centre capacity to meet increased demand, whilst also enabling its services to be flexed up or down according to requirements.

Atos is ranked number one in managed services in Europe and one of the leaders in cloud computing with 30 major data centres, 900,000 SAP users and management of more than 90,000 servers globally.