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OVHcloud names Benjamin Revcolevschi as CEO

European cloud and data center firm OVHcloud has appointed Benjamin Revcolevschi as CEO, breaking the news during its FY 2024 results this week, saying Michel Paulin resigned from his positions as director and CEO during a 23 October meeting. Revcolevschi joined OVH in May 2024 as deputy chief...

October 28, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

OVH Group

OVHcloud to launch Local Zone Edge location in Rabat, Morocco

European cloud provider OVHcloud is launching a Local Zone Edge location suitable for workloads with latency-sensitive services such as real-time analytics, e-commerce websites, content delivery networks (CDN) for replay and streaming videos, and cloud gaming in Rabat, Morocco. The cloud prov...

May 30, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

OVH Group

OVHcloud launches Local Zone Edge location in Zurich, Switzerland.

European cloud provider OVHcloud has launched a Local Zone Edge location in Zurich, Switzerland, suitable for workloads with latency-sensitive services such as real-time analytics, e-commerce websites, content delivery networks (CDN) for replay and streaming videos, and cloud gaming. Services ...

May 28, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

OVH Group

OVH launches Local Zone in the Netherlands

European cloud provider OVHcloud announced the opening of its first Public Cloud Local Zone in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The company noted that the zone was “in full compliance” with European digital sovereignty and security regulations, and fits stringent security policies of organizations such...

May 20, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

OVH Group

OVHcloud launches quantum computer at France data center

OVHcloud this week inaugurated what it described as the first quantum computer available from a European Cloud service provider. “We are convinced that quantum is a technology for the future and we have shown unwavering support to ensure Europe doesn’t miss the next technological revolution,” ...

March 20, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

OVH Group

OVHcloud launches new data center environment in Toronto, Canada

European cloud provider OVHcloud announced this week that it has launched a new data center environment in Toronto, Canada. The company said its Ontario site will be supported by a C$145 million (US$107m) investment over the next eight years. "This new data center marks a major turning point i...

March 15, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

OVH Group

OVHcloud announces a new data center in Singapore

European cloud and data center firm OVHcloud has launched a new data center in Singapore. The company said, “OVHcloud’s newest data center will feature an integrated water cooling system that is built into a vertical rack designed to facilitate cooling at the server level, eliminating the need...

November 08, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

OVH Group

OVHcloud is looking to acquire Gridscale

Gridscale, an industry leader in hyper-converged infrastructure, and OVHcloud are in exclusive takeover talks. The deal, which won't affect the fiscal year 2023 and will help OVHcloud with its Edge computing goals, is anticipated to close at the start of 2024. There has been no disclosure of t...

August 08, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

OVH Group

The First OVHcloud Data Center Launched in India

As part of its ambitions for Asia Pacific development, which will see the construction of two further data centers in Singapore and Australia by 2024, OVHcloud, a pioneer in European cloud computing, has announced opening its first data center in India. The new Mumbai facility expands OVHcloud...

March 28, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

OVH Group

OVHcloud Opens New Data Center in Undisclosed Mumbai, India Location

A new facility has been opened by the data center company OVHcloud in Mumbai, India. The company announced the opening this week, but no information was given regarding the facility's location or specs. The facility uses OVHcloud's unique water cooling technology, which the company claimed ...

March 23, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

OVH Group

Quantum Computer Purchased by OVHcloud

A French data center company OVHcloud purchased a quantum computer for internal usage. The technology was created by the French company Quandela, and a photonic processor powers the 2-qubit MosaiQ computer. Delivery is anticipated for this year's fall. No purchasing price was made public. OVH ...

March 20, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

OVH Group

European Investment Bank Loans OVHcloud €200m

OVHcloud has secured a €200 million ($208m) loan from the European Investment Bank (EIB). The loan will be used to fund future developments. OVHcloud's goal is to provide a sustainable cloud service alternative in Europe to replace US cloud providers. It aims to support European privacy standa...

November 25, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

OVH Group

OVHcloud's solar PPA with EDF

OVHcloud has announced it has signed a 15-year renewable power purchase agreement (PPA) with EDF Renewables, whereby the energy company will supply electricity from its 50MW solar power plant, located in the south of France. The solar plant is expected to be operational by 2024“We are proud to...

December 15, 2021

OVH Group

OVHcloud goes public

OVHcloud has finally been listed on the stock exchange in France. It went public on the Euronext Paris stock exchange. The company’s opening market capitalization was €3.48 billion ($4bn). It also raised €400 million ($469m). OVHcloud opened at €18.50 per share, dipped slightly, but its sha...

October 18, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

OVH Group

OVHcloud suffers outage affecting global backbone

French colocation and cloud provider OVHcloud has experienced a global outage. The company experienced an outage that lasted more than one hour when it started at around 7:00 UTC. OVH revealed that a maintenance reconfiguration error caused it. Besides, OVHcloud’s status page was brought down ...

October 13, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

OVH Group

Strasbourg fire could cost OVHcloud €105 million ($122m)

OVHcloud could be seeing up to €105 million ($122m) leave its coffers because of the fire that destroyed its Strasbourg data center in March. The document the firm filed with a French financial authority is responsible for revealing this. Although insurance has covered most of the cost of t...

October 01, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

OVH Group

OVHcloud plans to raise €400 million ($469m) in new IPO

According to the Wall Street Journal, French data center and cloud services provider OVHcloud plans to raise €400 million ($469m) in an IPO in Paris, France. According to the reports from WSJ, the listing could see the Company’s value rise to over $4.7 billion. OVHcloud was founded in 1999 ...

September 22, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

OVH Group

OVHcloud to go public by end of 2021

OVHcloud has officially confirmed that it would be going public on the Euronext stock exchange. Although OVHcloud hasn’t confirmed the date, but it will happen before the year runs out. Also, it did not say how much it expects to raise through the IPO, but it said the founder’s family, Octave...

June 16, 2021

Eric Bell

OVH Group

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