The Beijing Olympics are a massive undertaking, and IT services to support the event are a big part of the effort. Atos Origin is the worldwide IT partner for the Olympic Games, overseeing the infrastructure that features 10,000 PCs, 1,000 servers and 5,000 results systems terminals. The system includes a suite of applications for managing the games and publishing the results of events, and is protected by state-of-the-art security.
The IT experts and their teams now are moving from the development of the technology to the testing and operational phases with the games less than 100 days away.
To read more about tech and the China games:
- see this silicon.com article [1]
Links:
[1] http://hardware.silicon.com/servers/0,39024647,39219213,00.htm