Winter Olympics 2010 Vancouver
A little under a year before the Winter Olympics in Vancouver get rolling, the technology plans are almost approaching the finish line!
(Credit: Vancouver2010.com)
The Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games will reply on 13 computer systems handling tasks from: streaming the results worldwide to employee management as well as protecting the games from security and technical mishaps.
Atos Origin, the company overseeing the installation of the Games’ IT, says that systems are in place and are being put through 100,000 hours of testing. -CNET News
“Like the athletes, this complex network of systems must work perfectly from the first moment, in front of three billion people. There is no second chance,” Magnus Alvarsson, Atos Origin’s chief integrator for the 2010 Games, said in a statement.
Atos Origin has been in charge of IT at the Olympic Games since 2002 and is responsible for IT configurations again during the London Games in 2012.
The London Games’ chief integrator mentioned to sources that the IT backbone for the 2012 Games would be “trimmed in a drive” for “sustainability.”
-Winston Sih
Winston Sih Feb 14, 2009 at 4:23 PM
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