Marking its its 24th year as a company and its tenth annual Summit event in Paris, OVHcloud showcased its key innovations in security, compute, storage, database, network services, analytics, AI and quantum.
OVHcloud executives highlighted solid full year 2023 financial results published just a month ago that delivered double-digit growth in a challenging global context.
Key announcements:
- Expanding its global presence, with 38 Data-Centers across 4 continents, OVHcloud now generates 52% of its revenue outside of France. The company is the process of opening facilities in Singapore, Sydney, Mumbai, and Toronto, while expanding in other locations, especially Paris.
- OVHcloud now has more than 80 clients using SecNumCloud qualified infrastructures, which guarantees that cloud services are fully protected against foreign (non-EU) access
- In December 2023, OVHcloud is set to open a third SecNumCloud Data Center in Gravelines, France, joining the existing SecNumCloud Data Centers located in Roubaix and Strasbourg, France answering growing demands from its customers base;
- A new Bare Metal SecNumCloud offer is in the works and the Group has just begun its SecNumCloud qualification procedure with ANSSI;
- The Group plans to further extend the SNC qualification to its IaaS and PaaS offers starting with enabling its PaaS solutions portfolio in the Public Cloud universe including Kubernetes, databases, Data Platform and the most recent AI Solutions.
- New Compute Instances: Available now, OVHcloud’s new compute instances are powered by AMD EPYC processors and tackle new use-cases for workloads requiring either a balanced mixed of processor/memory/storage (General Purpose B3), high-performance many cores processing (Compute Optimized C3) and fast memory data processing (Memory Optimized R3)
- New Block Storage & File Storage: Public Cloud will soon benefit from Block Storage with NVMe over fabric enabled storage options for use-cases where I/O is crucial, with a Beta version available now. The new File Storage service will allow for storing files in Public Cloud
- New Managed MongoDB: Designed with MongoDB, the new managed offer comes with a free tier so developers can now effortlessly start, test and explore MongoDB in a trusted cloud environment before scaling their projects on a production tier, each with predictive pricing and excellent performance/price ratio.
- Network novelties: New layer 3 network services combining floating IP, load balancing and gateways as well as new vRack Endpoint to address use cases around Netapp,
- Security Dashboard: The OVHcloud Manager will soon benefit from a dashboard view representing key security events intercepted by the Group top-of-the-line Anti-DDoS mitigation algorithms so that clients have a better understanding of their exposure to online threats,
- Key Management Service: managed service to administer encryption keys in order to protect customers data from within OVHcloud services and applications. Allowing both generation and lifecycle of encryption keys, OVHcloud KMS is now available as an Alpha version on OVHcloud Labs,
- Improved Public Cloud customer experience: Public Cloud customers will soon experience various quality of life improvements in their overall journey
- Rancher for heavily containerized workloads: Facilitating hybrid and multi-cloud scenarios, the Group will soon launch its Managed Rancher service providing easy to use solutions to effortlessly manage Kubernetes clusters through Rancher single pane of glass
A recording of the main keynote is here:
