OpenText has announced a strategic partnership with S3NS, a merger of Thales, a leading French provider of cybersecurity solutions in Europe, and Google Cloud. The goal is to provide European businesses with a trusted cloud platform based on Google Cloud technology that meets the highest security and compliance standards in France, ensuring stringent data location, regulatory compliance, and operational controls.
As part of this partnership, a hybrid, trusted cloud architecture for Europe will be provided from France, enabling companies to keep their most sensitive data workloads in a locally managed environment while securely using cloud services from hyperscalers for non-sensitive workloads, innovation, and scaling.
This approach aims to ensure full interoperability with global cloud platforms, so that French and European organizations can continue to benefit from the innovations of hyperscalers while meeting local regulatory requirements.
OpenText and S3NS’ trusted cloud capabilities meet stringent regulatory and operational requirements. They leverage OpenText’s operational and security expertise in delivering government-grade cloud environments across multiple jurisdictions—including FedRAMP-approved, IRAP-audited, and Protected B-compliant deployments—and are built on the S3NS SecNumCloud-certified PREMI3NS platform to create a hybrid, trusted cloud offering specifically tailored to France’s regulatory and legal requirements. This enables organizations in highly regulated sectors, such as those managing sensitive citizen, patient, or financial data, to utilize cloud services while maintaining full regulatory compliance and control.
As further solutions will be considered for inclusion over time, the initial hybrid, sovereign offering will include the following:
Dedicated private cloud: OpenText™ Content Management and Documentum Content Management for highly sensitive data.
Sovereign SaaS: OpenText™ Core Archive for SAP® Solutions is offered as a multi-tenant service with data storage in Europe.
Compliance with regulations: Supports GDPR, SecNum 3.2 and other European data sovereignty requirements.
“Data governance and regulatory compliance are the foundation of digital trust for regulated companies,” said Shannon Bell, Head of Digital and Information Technology at OpenText. “Across Europe, companies are looking for innovative solutions that ensure sovereignty and control. OpenText addresses this need by combining the innovation power of hyperscalers with an independently controlled operating model. This gives customers the confidence they need to modernize their systems while keeping their data, access rights, and operations securely under regional control.”
S3NS is the result of an alliance between Thales, the French leader in cybersecurity in Europe, and Google Cloud, a global leader in cloud technologies committed to driving innovation. S3NS offers highly secure public cloud solutions to public institutions and private companies seeking to further protect their most sensitive data. These solutions facilitate the transition to a trusted cloud that meets the criteria of the ANSSI SecNumCloud standard. S3NS is a French company wholly owned by Thales.
