OVHcloud

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OVH Groupe SA
Euronext Paris: OVH
ISINFR0014005HJ9
IndustryCloud computing, hosting
Founded2 November 1999; 24 years ago (1999-11-02)[1]
Headquarters
Roubaix
,
France
Key people
  • Octave Klaba
    (Founder, chairman)[2]
  • Michel Paulin
    (CEO)
  • Henryk Klaba
    (President)
  • Miroslaw Klaba
    (R&D director)
Products
ASN
16276 Edit this at Wikidata
WebsiteOfficial website Edit this at Wikidata

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] 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 U.S. dollars (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 20 Tbps

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

Super Micro Computer Inc.[23]

Incidents

In March 2021, OVH suffered a large fire at its datacenter in

Autorité des marchés financiers documenting the estimated damage at about €105 million.[31] In 2023, OVH was ordered to pay €250,000 to two customers that had lost data, and more than 130 other customers are engaged in a class-action lawsuit against the company.[28]

In October 2021, the company had a worldwide outage across all their networks due to a human error.[32]

Controversies

WikiLeaks

In December 2010, French

adversarial hearing.[37]

Environmental impact

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

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 neutrality of datacenters before 2030.[41]

References

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    from the original on September 7, 2019. 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.
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  40. ENS Lyon
    .
  41. ^ Sterin, François (2021-01-21). "5 keys to understand the Climate Neutral Datacenter Pact". OVHcloud Blog. Retrieved 2021-09-15.

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