As a long-established French industrial player and a long-standing partner of local authorities, LACROIX announces its decision to rely on a sovereign cloud for its connected solutions, including LX CONNECT, in order to ensure enhanced data protection and continuity of public services.
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Water, energy, public lighting: the management of essential territorial infrastructures increasingly relies on digital solutions. While these tools deliver major gains in performance and operational control, they also raise a strategic issue that remains too little addressed: control over digital solutions and public data, and the question of digital sovereignty.
A Dual Imperative: Data Sovereignty and Technological Independence
Contrary to a common misconception, digital sovereignty is not limited to the geographical location of data. It also depends on technological independence.
For LACROIX, this means:
Avoiding technological lock-in by refusing exclusive dependence on proprietary building blocks.
Favouring interoperable standards to facilitate communication between systems.
Embracing open-source components, ensuring transparency and long-term sustainability for critical infrastructures.
A Clear Choice: Security, Independence and Trust
LACROIX has chosen to rely on Scaleway, a leading European sovereign cloud provider and technological partner for all its SaaS offerings, including LX CONNECT SaaS, deployed for the automated management of water network equipment and cybersecurity.
This choice offers several key advantages:
Genuine data sovereignty, with data hosted and operated by a European provider under European jurisdiction.
Controlled service continuity, enabled by the deployment of three availability zones (AZs) across three data centres in Paris.
A responsible digital approach, relying on data centres cooled using adiabatic evaporative systems that eliminate the need for energy-intensive air conditioning, and powered by 100% renewable energy.
In line with LACROIX’s approach to quantifying environmental benefits, Scaleway also provides an Environmental Footprint Calculator, enabling real-time monitoring of the actual carbon and water consumption associated with cloud usage.
Supporting the Long-Term Digital Transformation of Territories
Through this choice, LACROIX aims to support local authorities in a digital transformation that is efficient, secure and sustainable.
As a leading industrial player, LACROIX has a major responsibility: ensuring the resilience of the vital infrastructures of our territories. Digital sovereignty is not an option — it is the foundation of trust. By complementing our industrial sovereignty with data sovereignty, we offer operators robust service continuity and lasting technological independence in the face of geopolitical and cybersecurity challenges. »
Vincent Bedouin
Chief Executive Officer
LACROIX
In a market context where concerns around immunity and technological independence are becoming increasingly critical, LACROIX is among the companies that translate these issues directly into their technology choices. This approach reflects a high level of standards, serving both their clients and the territorial challenges they address — a choice that deserves recognition. »
Damien Lucas, Chief Executive Officer of Scaleway
Sovereign cloud is not a barrier to innovation; on the contrary, it forms an essential foundation of trust for deploying critical digital services for citizens.
With LX CONNECT, our ambition is to offer territories a solution that is both high-performing and free from imposed technological dependencies. By integrating open‑source components and interoperable standards on a sovereign infrastructure, we ensure that local authorities retain control over their critical infrastructures — today and tomorrow. »
Ronan Tano
VP, Research & Development
LACROIX
For LACROIX, digital sovereignty is a key condition for guaranteeing territorial autonomy and the continuity of tomorrow’s public services.
