Founded by four French shareholders, Docaposte, Dassault Systèmes, Bouygues Telecom and Banque des Territoires (Caisse des Dépôts), trusted cloud service provider NumSpot launched its operations 18 months ago.
And as in November 2023, the company organized a press conference on Thursday 21 to present an overview of its activity.
Note that NumSpot is now led by an interim general manager, Patrick Laurens-Frings, also director of Operational, Digital and Group IS Transformation at the CDC.
Combination of IaaS & PaaS services in Q1 2025
A new full-time CEO will be appointed in 2025, replacing Alain Issarni. A busy roadmap awaits the future boss of the Cloud service provider. NumSpot has a first range of PaaS type managed services.
The offer will be expanded next year. During the first quarter, the company plans managed services, again, combining IaaS (based on Outscale infrastructure) and additional PaaS services.
To provide this offer, NumSpot highlights its use of open source components, “market standards”. Early 2025 will also be an opportunity to bring AI services to the market, capitalizing in particular on Outscale GPUs and its partnership with Mistral AI.
On AI, the clouder also plans to rely on the partnership signed with Red Hat to offer a complete platform and deploy OpenShift containers. “It’s truly revolutionary,” assures the interim boss.
Sovereign AI capabilities
“This makes it possible to support all customers in a very concrete way [Ndlr : aux données sensibles dans la finance, la santé ou parmi les OIV] who are waiting to be able to use sovereign AI capabilities.”
Among these users is, for example, the Ministry of Justice as part of the provision of a secure generative AI product, in collaboration with a startup. NumSpot's strategy consists of developing partnerships to offer end-to-end trusted solutions.
New illustration with Docaposte, shareholder and also customer of NumSpot. The publisher has developed an AI application for the health sector, Dalvia. It allows doctors to generate their medical summaries and thus free up time.
“This solution that we have built naturally relies on NumSpot. If there is an area where data is sensitive, it is health,” explains the CEO of Docaposte, Olivier Vallet. Launched on November 20, the AI product has a first client, a university hospital. The publisher is ready to scale up.
More cloud services in 2025 and 2026
AI will be an area of development for the cloud provider, but not the only one. In 2025 and 2026, NumSpot plans to “expand the range, make it deeper”, for example with automatic version upgrade and multi-zones in the second half.
Auto-scaling is announced for 2026, as is the observability aspect. Next year will also be devoted to certification projects, including HDS and SecNumCloud as a priority. Much remains to be done, even if NumSpot already has around forty customers of its IaaS and PaaS range in beta.
“The roadmap is ambitious, but the decisive support of our shareholders makes us optimistic in the success of NumSpot (…) I am convinced that NumSpot has already been won,” declares Patrick Laurens-Frings.
