Company:OVHcloud

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Short description: French web hosting and cloud computing company
OVH Groupe SA
TypePublic (Société anonyme)
Euronext Paris: OVH
ISIN[https://handwiki.org/wiki/index.php?title=Toollabs:isin/&language=en&isin=FR0014005HJ9 FR0014005HJ9]
IndustryCloud computing, hosting
Founded1999[1]
Headquarters
Roubaix
,
France
Key people
  • Octave Klaba
    (Founder, chairman)[2]
  • Michel Paulin
    (CEO)
  • Henryk Klaba
    (President)
  • Miroslaw Klaba
    (R&D director)
ProductsVPS, dedicated hosting service, cloud computing, public cloud, private cloud, web hosting, DSL
RevenueTemplate:Augmentation €663 million (2021)

OVH, legally OVH Groupe SA, is a French cloud computing company which offers VPS, dedicated servers and other web services. As of 2016 OVH owned the world's largest data center in surface area.[3] As of 2019, it was the largest hosting provider in Europe,[4][5] and the third largest in the world based on physical servers.[6] The company was founded in 1999[1] by the Klaba family and is headquartered in Roubaix, France .[7] OVH is incorporated as a simplified joint-stock company under French law. In 2019 OVH adopted OVHcloud as its public brand name.[8]

History and growth

OVH was founded in November 1999[1] by Octave Klaba, with the help of three family members (Henry, Haline, and Miroslaw).

In August 2023, it was announced OVHcloud was in exclusive negotiations for the acquisition of the Cologne-headquartered edge computing software company, gridscale GmbH.[9]

Funding 2.

In October 2016, OVH raised $250 million in order to raise further international expansion.[10] This funding round valued OVH at over US$1 billion. In the fiscal year of 2016, OVH reportedly had around $343 million in revenue. In 2018 OVH announced its five-year plans to triple investment starting in 2021. Which represent between 4.6 and $8.1 billion United States dollar (4 to 7 billion euros).[11]

In October 2021, OVHcloud filed its IPO and is listed on the Euronext Paris, the Paris Stock Exchange[12] as OVH. In December 2021, OVHcloud became part of the Paris SBF120 index.[13]

Operations

As of 2021, OVH had 30 data centers in 19 countries hosting 300,000 servers.[14][15] The company offers localized services such as customer service offices in many European countries, as well as in North America, Africa, and Singapore.[16] (As of 2019), OVH is considered one of the largest cloud computing providers in the world, with over a million customers and one of the largest OpenStack deployments in the world,[17] and a network capacity totaling over 20Tbps

As of 2017, OVH was known for its offering of email hosting service,[18] considered one of the largest in the world,[19] in addition to its general Internet hosting services.

OVH uses in-house design and manufacturing, including custom-made servers (based on standard components) and a modular shipping container architecture. In 2019, the Canadian data center (Beauharnois, Quebec) was considered a leading example of the OVH model.[20]

Partnerships

As of 2016, OVH was one of the sponsors for Let's Encrypt, a free TLS encryption service,[21][22] and OVH's hardware supplier is Super Micro Computer Inc.[23]

Incidents

In March 2021, OVH suffered a large fire at its datacenter in Strasbourg, France.[24] SBG2 had been built in 2016 with a capacity of 30 thousand physical servers.[25] SBG2 was declared a total loss, with early reports indicating damage to SBG1, and services across all four Strasbourg locations experiencing disruptions.[26] The company's chairman, Octave Klaba, took to Twitter to confirm that all its staff were safe.[27] SBG1 was damaged partially while SBG4 remained intact, and SBG3 was intact but without power, though the servers at the latter sites were taken offline temporarily.[28][27]

In September 2021, the company filed a report[29] with the Autorité des marchés financiers documenting the estimated damage at about €105 million.[30]

In October 2021, the company had a worldwide outage across all their networks due to a human error.[31]

Controversies

WikiLeaks

In December 2010, French Gizmodo edition revealed that WikiLeaks selected OVH as its new hosting provider, following Amazon's refusal to host it.[32][33][34] On December 3, the growing controversy prompted Eric Besson, France's Industry Minister, to inquire about legal ways to prohibit this hosting in France. The attempt failed. On December 6, 2010, a judge ruled that there was no need for OVH to cease hosting WikiLeaks.[35] The case was rejected on the grounds that such a case required an adversarial hearing.[36]

Information disclosure and multiple vulnerabilities

In January 2019, the magazine WebsitePlanet uncovered client-side vulnerability in some of the largest hosting companies in the world: Bluehost, DreamHost, HostGator, iPage, and OVH.[37]

Environmental impact

OVH started to integrate innovative water cooling in 2003[38] in its datacenters.

OVH relies in large part on nuclear power, in particular their Gravelines data centre is known for being located next to the Gravelines Nuclear Power Station.[39][40]

In January 2021, OVH with other industry players joined the Climate Neutral Data Centre Pact, which is a pledge to achieve climate neutrality of datacenters before 2030.[41]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Clabaugh, Jeff (2016-10-06). "French firm to open 1st US data center in Fauquier Co." (in en). https://wtop.com/business-finance/2016/10/french-firm-to-open-1st-us-data-center-in-fauquier-co/. 
  2. ↑ "OVH reorganises its governance to support new acceleration phase". https://www.ovh.ie/news/articles/a2439.ovh_reorganises_its_governance_to_support_new_acceleration_phase. 
  3. ↑ Wood, Eric Emin (2016-10-12). "Why OVH opened the world's largest datacentre in the Great White North" (in en-US). International Data Group, Inc. (IDG) IT World Canada. https://www.itworldcanada.com/article/why-ovh-opened-the-worlds-largest-datacentre-in-the-great-white-north/387358. 
  4. ↑ MSV, Janakiram (2019-05-26). "How VMware Is Transforming Itself Into a Multi-Cloud Company" (in en). https://www.forbes.com/sites/janakirammsv/2019/05/26/how-vmware-is-transforming-itself-into-a-multi-cloud-company/. 
  5. ↑ Coop, Alex (2019-08-27). "Canadian customers' heads are still in the clouds, and so is VMware's | Financial Post" (in en-CA). https://www.itworldcanada.com/article/canadian-customers-heads-are-still-in-the-clouds-and-so-is-vmwares/421294. 
  6. ↑ Sarraf, Samira (2017-05-12). "World's third-largest hosting provider OVH opens Melbourne office". nextmedia. http://www.crn.com.au/news/worlds-third-largest-hosting-provider-ovh-opens-melbourne-office-461480. 
  7. ↑ Rosemain, Mathieu; Barzic, Gwénaëlle (2018-10-18). "France's OVH to triple spending to take on Google, Amazon in cloud computing" (in en). Reuters. https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-ovh-strategy-idUKKCN1MS17L. 
  8. ↑ "For its 20th anniversary, OVH takes off and becomes OVHcloud". 10 October 2019. https://www.ovh.co.uk/news/press/cpl1373.its-20th-anniversary-ovh-takes-and-becomes-ovhcloud. 
  9. ↑ "OVHcloud on the edge of glory in new market with Germany acquisition" (in en). 2023-08-08. https://www.channelweb.co.uk/news/4121807/ovhcloud-edge-glory-market-germany-acquisition. 
  10. ↑ "OVH Partners with KKR and TowerBrook for Further Global Expansion". http://exithub.com/klaba-family-ovh-europe-no-1-web-host-raises-e250m-from-kkr-towerbrook/. 
  11. ↑ Rosemain, Mathieu; Barzic, Gwénaëlle (2018-10-18). "France's OVH to triple spending to take on Google, Amazon in cloud..." (in en). Reuters. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ovh-strategy-idUSKCN1MS17L. 
  12. ↑ "Shares in French tech champion OVHcloud gain 6% in Paris debut". Reuters. 15 October 2021. https://www.reuters.com/technology/shares-french-computing-firm-ovhcloud-gain-nearly-3-paris-debut-2021-10-15/. 
  13. ↑ "OVHcloud Joins SBF 120 Index Following Euronext Paris Review | MarketScreener". 10 December 2021. https://www.marketscreener.com/quote/stock/OVH-GROUPE-127472031/news/OVHcloud-Joins-SBF-120-Index-Following-Euronext-Paris-Review-37278124/. 
  14. ↑ "About - OVH Canada". OVH. https://www.ovh.com/ca/en/about-us/. 
  15. ↑ "Datacentres: Security and infrastructure | OVHcloud". https://www.ovhcloud.com/en/datacenters-ovhcloud/. 
  16. ↑ Williams, Mike; Turner, Brian (2019-08-26). "Best dedicated server hosting providers of 2019" (in en). https://www.techradar.com/news/best-dedicated-server-hosting-providers. 
  17. ↑ Max Smolaks (2019-04-29). "OVH pulls gloves off bare metal fighters as it eyes up US cloud vendors". https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/04/29/ovh_adds_bare_metal_fighters_to_its_roster_looking_to_challenge_the_us_cloud_dominance/. 
  18. ↑ David Legrand (2017-03-27). "OVH lance une offre E-mail Pro basée sur Microsoft Exchange... mais sans ActiveSync" (in fr). https://www.nextinpact.com/news/103418-ovh-lance-offre-e-mail-pro-basee-sur-microsoft-exchange-mais-sans-activesync.htm. 
  19. ↑ "Press release for market report". 2020. https://www.arnnet.com.au/mediareleases/77901/us-email-hosting-services-market-is-slated-to/. 
  20. ↑ "Beauharnois data centre a model of OVH DIY scale". 2019-03-05. https://insightaas.com/beauharnois-data-centre-a-model-of-ovh-diy-scale/. 
  21. ↑ Lomas, Natasha (2016-04-12). "Let's Encrypt free HTTPS certification push exits beta" (in en-US). http://social.techcrunch.com/2016/04/12/lets-encrypt-free-https-certification-push-exits-beta/. 
  22. ↑ Gilbert, Guillaume (December 22, 2015). "OVH Commits to Let's Encrypt to Provide Free SSL Certificates". OVH.COM. https://www.ovh.com/us/news/cp2056.ovh_commits_to_lets_encrypt_to_provide_free_ssl_certificates. 
  23. ↑ Mawad, Marie (2018-10-18). "OVH Keeps Super Micro as Supplier, Vets Hardware In-House". Bloomberg News. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-18/ovh-keeps-super-micro-as-supplier-vets-hardware-in-house. 
  24. ↑ Rosemain, Mathieu (2021-03-10). "Blaze destroys servers at Europe's largest cloud services firm". https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-ovh-fire-idUSKBN2B20NU. 
  25. ↑ "OVH Strasbourg Campus Data Center". https://baxtel.com/data-center/ovh-strasbourg-campus. 
  26. ↑ Sharwood, Simon (2021-03-10). "OVH data centre destroyed by fire in Strasbourg – all services unavailable". https://www.theregister.com/2021/03/10/ovh_strasbourg_fire/. 
  27. ↑ 27.0 27.1 Miller, Rich (2021-03-11). "OVH Data Center in France Destroyed by Fire, All Staff Safe". https://datacenterfrontier.com/ovh-data-center-in-france-destroyed-by-fire-all-staff-safe/. 
  28. ↑ Sverdlik, Yevgeniy (2021-03-10). "CEO Says Fire Has Destroyed OVH's Strasbourg Data Center (SBG2)". https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/uptime/ceo-says-fire-has-destroyed-ovh-s-strasbourg-data-center-sbg2. 
  29. ↑ "DOCUMENT D'ENREGISTREMENT" (in French). OVHCloud Group. 17 September 2021. https://ipo.ovhcloud.com/sites/default/files/2021-09/OVH%20Groupe%20-%20Document%20enregistrement%20-%20vdef.pdf. 
  30. ↑ Peter Judge (29 September 2021). "Fire could cost OVHcloud €105 million, IPO filing reveals". Data Center Dynamics. https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/fire-could-cost-ovhcloud-105-million-ipo-filing-reveals/. 
  31. ↑ @olesovhcom (13 October 2021). "Suite à une erreur humaine durant la reconfiguration du network sur notre DC à VH (US-EST), nous avons un souci sur…". https://twitter.com/olesovhcom/status/1448196879020433409. 
  32. ↑ Greenberg, Andy (September 13, 2012). This Machine Kills Secrets: How WikiLeakers, Hacktivists, and Cypherpunks Are Freeing the World's Information. New York (New York), USA: Random House. ISBN 978-0-753-54801-1. https://books.google.com/books?id=bIaZf663Z2cC. Retrieved 2015-07-23. "Within days, they had registered the URL and set up an SSLprotected site and a Tor Hidden Service in an OVH data center in the French city of Roubaix, the same one that briefly housed WikiLeaks' publications until they migrated to Sweden." 
  33. ↑ Vinocur, Nick; Love, Brian (2010-12-03). "France seeks to bar hosting WikiLeaks website" (in en). Reuters. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-wikileaks-idUSTRE6B22UY20101203. 
  34. ↑ Greenberg, Andy (2010-12-03). "Despite Attacks, WikiLeaks' Swedish Host Won't Budge". https://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2010/12/03/despite-attacks-wikileaks-swedish-host-wont-budge/. 
  35. ↑ "French web host need not shut down WikiLeaks site: judge". 2010-12-06. https://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iojKm00N9vMvjVGwO2ZNko9rVpBw?docId=CNG.3c86e1065eee2cfd740284f4a84f3555.121. 
  36. ↑ "Following the wikileaks case". OVH. 6 December 2010. http://forum.ovh.co.uk/showthread.php?t=4916. 
  37. ↑ "Report: We Tested 5 Popular Web Hosting Companies & All Were Easily Hacked". 15 January 2019. https://www.websiteplanet.com/blog/report-popular-hosting-hacked/. 
  38. ↑ "Servers on Demand: Custom Water-Cooled Servers in One Hour". September 16, 2013. https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2013/09/16/ovh-servers. 
  39. ↑ Julien Costagliola di Fiore (2017-05-04). "Energy efficient datacenter". OVH. https://www.fenercom.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/2017-05-04-Water-cooling-with-free-cooling-to-have-a-very-low-power-usage-effectiveness-OVH-fenercom.pdf. 
  40. ↑ Teva Meyer (2017-12-11). "Le nucléaire et le territoire : regards sur l'intégration spatiale des centrales en France" (in fr). ENS Lyon. http://geoconfluences.ens-lyon.fr/informations-scientifiques/dossiers-regionaux/la-france-des-territoires-en-mutation/articles-scientifiques/nucleaire-territoires-france. 
  41. ↑ Sterin, François (2021-01-21). "5 keys to understand the Climate Neutral Datacenter Pact" (in en-GB). https://www.ovh.com/blog/5-keys-to-understand-the-climate-neutral-datacenter-pact/. 

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