As organisations look for more control over their cloud environments without sacrificing flexibility, many are rethinking how their infrastructure is managed. Increasingly, businesses want cloud environments that are scalable and automated, but also transparent, compliant and built on long-term partnerships.
Through CUBID360, an automated multi-cloud management platform built on Broadcom’s VMware technology, Axians is helping customers simplify complex cloud environments while maintaining control over their infrastructure. Combined with Axians’ focus on long-term collaboration, the platform is already supporting global enterprises – including automotive supplier NEMAK – with secure and scalable managed cloud services.
Responding to a changing cloud landscape
Across industries in Europe, organisations are placing greater emphasis on sovereignty, compliance and control over where their IT infrastructure runs, particularly when operating across multiple regions or regulated environments.
At the same time, businesses are increasingly adopting hybrid and multi-cloud architectures, combining private infrastructure with public cloud services to meet changing performance, cost and governance requirements. While these environments provide flexibility, they can also add operational complexity.
Axians developed CUBID360 to address this challenge. The platform brings together automation, security and scalability to help organisations manage complex cloud environments more easily.
Customers want the flexibility of the cloud, but they also want transparency and control. Axians’ role is to provide a platform that makes complex infrastructure easier to manage while ensuring reliability and security.
A partner with global reach
Axians is the ICT brand of VINCI Energies, operating in 38 countries with €3.8bn in revenue and more than 17,000 employees.
The company acts as both systems integrator and managed service provider, delivering expertise across cloud infrastructure, networking, cybersecurity and data centre operations. But what defines Axians’ approach is its focus on long-term customer relationships.
Rather than delivering one-off IT projects, the company works closely with organisations over many years, helping them evolve their IT environments as their needs change.
With more than 20,000 active customers worldwide, Axians combines global scale with strong local engineering teams and compliance expertise in each market.
CUBID360: automation at the core of multi-cloud management
At the centre of Axians’ cloud offering is CUBID360, a Platform as a Service designed to automate and simplify multi-cloud management.
The platform provides compute and storage infrastructure in a highly automated and secure manner, while integrating seamlessly with existing infrastructures. This enables organisations to modernise their IT environments without needing to replace systems all at once.
CUBID360 also allows infrastructure resources to be expanded on demand, enabling organisations to respond quickly to changing workloads. At the same time, services are billed according to actual use, giving customers greater flexibility and cost transparency.
Customer spotlight: supporting NEMAK’s global operations
One organisation benefiting from this approach is NEMAK, a global manufacturer of advanced automotive components headquartered in Mexico.
NEMAK operates production facilities and engineering centres across several continents, supplying major automotive manufacturers with lightweight aluminium components. Running these global operations requires reliable and resilient IT infrastructure.
Since 2011, NEMAK has worked with Axians to run business-critical infrastructure on its VMware-based managed cloud platform. From sovereign data centres in Austria, Axians provides 24/7 infrastructure support and availability, ensuring that key systems remain stable across multiple regions.
Over more than a decade of collaboration, Axians has become an extension of NEMAK’s IT team, helping the company maintain operational stability while introducing automation and scalable infrastructure capabilities.
Built on VMware technology
A key foundation of CUBID360 is VMware Cloud Foundation, now part of Broadcom.
Axians has remained committed to this technology stack, citing its integration capabilities and suitability for complex enterprise environments. VMware reference architectures and cloud-verified designs provide a reliable framework for building modern multi-cloud infrastructures.
By building CUBID360 on this foundation, Axians ensures interoperability across environments while supporting the performance, security and automation requirements of enterprise customers.
A platform built for long-term partnership
As IT environments continue to grow more complex, organisations need platforms that simplify operations while allowing infrastructure to evolve over time.
CUBID360 brings together sovereign infrastructure, automated provisioning and flexible consumption-based services in a single managed platform.
Through long-term partnerships like the one with NEMAK – and its continued collaboration with Broadcom – Axians is demonstrating that sovereign managed cloud is already supporting global enterprise operations today.
