Ever ask yourself who handles the IT for the Olympic? How are all the event results collected,stored, maintained, managed and accessed? The company in charge since the Salt Lake City 2002 Olympics is Atos Origin based out of France. Atos Origin has been responsible for the information technology including consulting, systems integration, operations management, information security and software applications development for the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games.
IT is critical to the delivery of the modern Olympic Games. Atos Origin designs, integrates, manages and secures the Games-time IT providing Core Games Management systems including Transportation, Medical Encounters, Accreditation System and Workforce Management – all needed to stage the Games.
IT is then used to distribute results and background information to the world through the On-Venue Results system, the Commentator Information System and
INFO2010 – the Olympic intranet. The entire system is controlled from a room, comparable to NASA’s Mission Control, called the Technology Operations Centre
(TOC). The TOC monitors the complex systems for security breeches, technical problems and provides advanced-level help for the IT staff and volunteers.
The IT infrastructure of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Games includes:
The Games-time IT is made up of 13 systems, working congruently to ensure the smooth operations of the Games while protecting the information from internal and external threats.
800 Servers
6,000 Computers
4,000 Printers
result system terminals, including:
CIS terminals (commentator information systems)
Intranet terminals (INFO2010)
Over 100,000 hours of testing
Currently the size of the Atos Origin IT team in Vancouver is around 15 but the team will grow rapidly over the next couple of years. During the 2010 Winter Games, Atos Origin will manage the technology consortium team estimated at 2,000 staff, including 400 Atos Origin experts, made up of locally hired staff, local volunteers and overseas Olympic Games technology experts.
During the first six months the focus of the Atos Origin team in Vancouver has been to run and staff the technology Help desk for the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games and on planning for the next four years.
More information on the Vancouver olympics can be found on vancouver2010.com and vancouverolympicsguide.com
Source: Atos Origin.
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