France’s Thales partners with Google on secure cloud services

PARIS, Oct 6 (Reuters) – Defence company Thales (TCFP.PA) and Google are partnering to offer state-vetted cloud computing services for the storage of some of France’s most sensitive data, the companies said on Wednesday.

The alliance between Thales, Europe’s largest defence electronics supplier, and the Alphabet (GOOGL.O) unit fulfils a May government plan under which France acknowledged U.S. technological superiority in the field. read more

The French government said then that cloud…