Europe's largest cloud service provider to support UEFA's
entire business operations and online presence for next three
seasons.
The Union of European Football Associations (UEFA), the
governing body of all football in Europe, has selected Interoute's
pan-European cloud services to support all its business, football
competitions and events over the next three seasons. Interoute will
host all applications and systems used directly by UEFA including
its Football Administration and Management Environment
(FAME) and the UEFA.com website.
UEFA's Football Administration and Management Environment is its
core IT platform running the services essential to UEFA, such as
media bookings, accreditations, competition management, as well as
services for referees and commercial partners. This is a unique
application crafted for the specific needs of a sport's governing
body and is crucial for its operations during matches. At the same
time UEFA also requires a platform that caters for huge numbers of
visitors viewing videos and images on UEFA.com. UEFA's competitions
place substantial demand on UEFA's online platform where more than
400 million visits to the UEFA.com site are
expected during its international competitions'
season compared to some 270 million when the last EURO
final tournament was help in 2008.
Daniel Marion, Head of Information and Communications Technology
at UEFA, said: "Interoute has successfully designed, built and
deployed a platform that delivers both enterprise grade stability
and reliability as well as event-driven scalability. UEFA.com is
one of the top ten most visited sites in the world during major
football events providing high quality match coverage to football
fans around the world. In Interoute we have found a partner who can
match the high levels of performance and quality that UEFA and its
competitions stand for."
Gareth Williams, CEO at Interoute, said: "It is a huge
endorsement of the quality of Interoute's organisation,
infrastructure and technical expertise that UEFA will rely on it to
bring all the latest competition results and information to fans
around the world, as well as underpinning online ticket sales and
organisational applications. With the public-facing IT behind
Europe's most prestigious football being hosted in Europe's largest
private cloud, fans can expect a great experience from every click
as well as every match."
Interoute's Unified ICT portfolio comprises computing,
connectivity and communications. Its Unified Connectivity offering
has proven attractive to organisations looking for a scalable,
secure and unconstrained platform on which they can build their
Enterprise applications, web presence and communication
services.
About UEFA - www.uefa.com
About Interoute
Interoute Communications Ltd is the owner operator of Europe's
largest cloud services platform, which encompasses over 60,000 km
of lit fibre, 8 hosting data centres and 32 collocation centres,
with connections to 140 additional third-party data centres across
Europe. Its full-service Unified ICT platform serves international
enterprises, as well as every major European telecommunications
incumbent and the major operators of North America, East and South
Asia, governments and universities. These organisations find
Interoute the ideal partner for computing, connectivity and
communications and developing new services. Its Unified ICT
strategy has proved attractive to enterprises looking for a
scalable, secure and unconstrained platform on which they can build
their voice, video, computing and data services, as well as service
providers in need of high capacity international data transit and
infrastructure. With established operations throughout mainland
Europe, North America and Dubai, Interoute also owns and operates
dense city networks throughout Europe's major business centres. www.interoute.com