Atos Origin, the Worldwide IT Partner for the Olympic Games, has announced its PC Factory has become operational.

This marks the final stage of central planning and preparations of IT equipment for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.

The PC Factory, managed by Atos Origin, will be the central facility for the configuration and distribution of the Olympic Games IT equipment to the Olympic venues.

Located inside the Olympic Logistics Center (OLC) in Shunyi District, Northeast Beijing, the PC Factory is responsible for configuration and distribution of all the Games’ IT equipment before they are dispatched to more than 70 Olympic Games venues. And this includes 10,000 PCs and servers, over 1,000 network devices, and over 2000 printers.

Jeremy Hore, seen in our illustration who is Chief Integrator at Beijing for Atos Origin, said, ‘The PC Factory is a critical processing center for all the IT equipment used at the Games. Every single device, and there are thousands, must be properly configured, tested and prepared for deployment at Olympic Games venues.’

Atos has a lot of experience in this area. Its contract with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) is the largest sports-related IT contract covering: Salt Lake City in 2002 (operating as SchlumbergerSema); Athens in 2004; Torino in 2006; Beijing in 2008. Then it will be Vancouver in 2010; and London in 2012.
Source: WebWire