For its 20th anniversary, OVH takes off and becomes OVHcloud

For its 7th Summit, OVHcloud is bringing together its whole community for the annual meetup at Porte de Versailles, Paris. For the opening keynote, presented by OVHcloud's Founder and Chairman Octave Klaba and CEO Michel Paulin, nearly 10,000 people are expected to follow the event, either by going to the Paris Expo, or via video stream around the world.

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The company’s ambition is to offer a European alternative in the cloud market, and its 20th anniversary marks a new milestone in its growth. OVHcloud is demonstrating its capacity for international growth, support and innovation. It is resolutely focused on the cloud and intends to contribute to an emerging ecosystem of trusted solutions in Europe.

A new name for a new era
By adopting the name OVHcloud, the group is aligning its identity with its business development strategy, in order to support its international growth. "OVH started 20 years ago with the beginnings of service virtualisation (PaaS, IaaS, SaaS and others). Today, we call this the cloud, and we want our brand to reflect this reality around the world," explains Michel Paulin, CEO of OVHcloud.
 
Supporting IT decision-makers in their digital transition with Enterprise
With Enterprise products and solutions, IT decision-makers have the opportunity to secure their digital transition projects based on a transparent, reversible, predictive and multi-local cloud. This year, the Bare Metal portfolio will be enriched with dedicated server clusters, based on a private network with guaranteed performance, through standard APIs for better automation
The company will soon update its line of premium customisable HG dedicated servers with the latest-generation Intel® Cascade Lake™ and AMD EPYC™ 2nd generation CPUs, to offer users even more performance and reliability. Finally, the group is pursuing its global certification strategy, and is undergoing the SecNumCloud qualification process.
 
Providing an open, standard environment for DevOps who need to develop scalable cloud-based applications with the Public Cloud
With the Public Cloud product line, developers can start their activity instantly, with the flexibility of on-demand resources that allow them to adjust their resource usage to suit their needs, simply and quickly. The company also remains true to its commitments by using open and interoperable standards: Public Cloud Storage is now available with support for S3 APIs, and the alignment of Public Cloud with RefStack tools will soon be complete.
 
Meeting the needs of infrastructure, hardware and network enthusiasts looking to build a cloud platform with server solutions
System administrators can use server solutions to build their infrastructure, for the best price and performance available on the market. And this year, OVHcloud has completely redesigned its range of dedicated servers, aiming to simplify the range and make it more versatile. , OVHcloud recently launched its new range of Infrastructure dedicated servers. You can use them to build server architectures in clusters, and manage large databases. All servers in the Infrastructure range are equipped with the latest technology, OVHcloud Link Aggregation (OLA),
Some servers in the Infrastructure range also provide advanced security features via Intel® Software Guard Extensions (SGX) technology, which fully isolates code that is being run, and data that is being processed.OVHCloud will also be launching in early 2020 its brand-new Virtual Private Server offer. Simple and easy to scale, from STARTER to ELITE. It will deliver great options such as Automated Backup with a 99.9%  SLA.
 
Boosting business owners’ online presence and business communication with Market solutions
Market solutions enable individuals and small enterprises to grow digitally. Cloud Web solutions are aimed at developers and agencies. They will be developed this year, with new configurations to suit a wider range of uses. As a result, users will get additional resources for their websites and web applications.
Also, the company has redesigned the OVHcloud Partner Program, to better support companies’ digital transformations. This is also another way in which the company is focusing on its internationalisation. The program is open and compliant with OVHcloud's DNA, and its first members already include companies such as Thales, Capgemini and Deloitte.

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