«The whole cloud is occupied by hyperscalar America… all? No! A Gallic supplier resists, still and as always, the invader ». Yes Axtérix and Obélix fought against the Romans, in the world of the cloud it seems complicated that an actor who faces the empire of US suppliers is consolidated. However, Ovhcloud has been facing the power of the Google, Aws and Azure for years. Your magical potion? A proposal whose basic ingredients are sustainability, data protection, offer an integrated model and give the client’s freedom.
Ovhcloud is perhaps before one of the most important moments of its 25 years of history. The boredom that, increasingly manifested, caused by the vendor-locking and the prices offered Three big.
One of the great difficulties that IT departments have is to align their strategy with business requirements. For this, the demands are increasingly important and are based on two key points: on the one hand, the reduction of costs and on the other, protect the data of the companies.
In both cases, American hypers fail or at least is a growing opinion by technology responsible for all kinds of organizations. The market share of which they enjoy has made them an oligopoly from which it is difficult to escape. And to all this, we must add some increasingly bulky costs derived from the inability of organizations to dispense with certain solutions or services. In this way, it is increasingly frequent to hear among IT managers, such as “the cloud has become the new on-premise.”
The importance of data
The data has become an essential section for any organization. A few years ago, their value and their protection occupied a secondary position: it was more important to increase efficiency. Once optimal levels of productivity and incorporation of new technologies were reached, companies began to wonder what happened with all that information that was yielding and hosting in the data centers of the hyperscales. The different regulations, as well as certain North American actions, claiming the always diffuse “national security motives”, to have a free access bar to the data caused companies to begin to suspect what the hyperscalar America was doing with that information.
The suspicions, the regulations in the field of data protection and the growing complaints of cios and responsible for you, made the hyperscalar move the sovereignty clouds. However, despite the effort made in the matter of dissemination by hyperscales, ensuring that the data were not shared in any case, the suspicions not only were not reduced, but have been increasing.
Ovhcloud, the alternative to price and security
With this crop broth, OVHCloud has all ballots to become the great alternative to multinationals in hyperscalar America. Currently, this gala village can boast of being the European reference actor who fights against the great three. As he presented in a meeting with the specialized press John Gazal, VP Southern Europe & Brazil of Ovhcloud, “we are the only cloud provider capable of competing with the American hyperscales and we do it in the public cloud, in artificial intelligence and in quantum computing . And all this with predictable and affordable costs ».
Aware of the growing disappointment that organizations have regarding the increase in costs of the services provided by the companies of Hijerellar America, OVHCloud has seen a window of opportunity offering a predictable, assumable and according to the needs of each company .
As Gazal stated, «we offer companies a set of plans that allow them . This offer reinforces Ovhcloud’s commitment with accessible and scalable solutions ». The bet is resulting in and not only in the European market, but the United States is being one of the markets in which Ovhcloud’s growth is more notable.
And then there is the part of the security, perhaps the strong point of the company. As Gazal explained, «our commitment to security is part of our DNA. Tell us with the maximum certifications and we have sovereignty of the (real) data ». The great advantage of companies is that, in this case, they do not need to do any evangelization. Ovhcloud does not affect the “national security reasons.” “Being a European supplier we are not exposed to international laws,” concluded the head of the company in our country.
Freedom, freedom, freedom
Although price and safety make up the two most important pillars of resistance against hyperscalar America, it is not convenient to disregard other sections in which Ovhcloud’s strategy affects this competition. One of them is the difficulty that companies find to change supplier. The European firm, however, is committed to Open Source solutions and the client can be changed at any time if it does not satisfy the service that is being given. That freedom can only be obtained if there is a wide range of solutions and services. And in this case, Ovhcloud has it with a clear commitment to the world of paas.
Price and safety make up the two most important pillars of Ovhcloud’s resistance against hyperscalar America
In this sense, Gazal explained that “we have a permanent commitment to the PAAS market that responds to the needs of a growing number of customers and partners, seeking sovereign cloud solutions, sustainable, with accessible prices and above all predictable. We will continue to increase our Universe of Public Cloud with more Paa solutions to provide the necessary resources to Spanish organizations and SMEs seeking a European cloud of trust to boost their most innovative projects ».
OVHCloud has deployed important resources in recent years to expand the supply of PAAS products and services in the Universe of Public Cloud, which now has more than 40 products and services – especially in key areas such as artificial intelligence, automatic learning, databases, databases and container orchestration – to which 14 additional 14 will be added throughout this year 2025.
Among the last novelties is the offer of Key Management Service with which the encryption keys can be managed from a single place, whatever the type of cloud chosen: well in Ovhcloud, in “On Premise”, or through a supplier external.
Likewise, the firm has presented Object Storage Standard in the 3-AZ Region of Paris and in the local Zones of the group; With this offer, customers can now take advantage of cloud resilience applied to Object Storage, available for choice in 1-AZ or 3-AZ configurations. This makes Ovhcloud Object Storage the most competitive solution in the market, which is backed by a SLA of 99.99% for maximum availability of data.
The proposal is extended with new Hosted Private Cloud offers, in order to guarantee customers the use of market standards without the complexity of managing its own infrastructure. It includes the new Public VCF (VMware Cloud Foundation) offer that offers optimal performance at a competitive price, while private VCF and Dedicated VCF solutions, with greater control, will be added soon.
Likewise, the Nutanix on Ovhcloud solution is extended with the new Scale dedicated servers to address use cases such as load migration and disaster recovery. The solution also integrates the HYCU service for OVHCloud, simplifying backups and management of Nutanix workloads.
Finally, On-Prem Cloud Platform, will play a relevant role in the strategy. This independent hardware solution has cost Ovhcloud a decade of development and innovation and offers all the cloud services necessary to execute Bare Metal, Hosted Private Cloud and Public Cloud, in connected or disconnected mode. The platform provides absolute control of data at the service of more specific use cases, either in customer datacenters or EDGE, and is designed to support organizations that need even more control over their environment and their environment and Data, with a local maintenance.
The future goes through quantum
Although the future seems to go through the AI, where the European company offers customers a complete set of innovative and accessible solutions for artificial intelligence and the data life cycle – from ideation to the production of models -, without compromising The privacy of the data, sustainability and ethics is in quantum computing where it seems that the next battlefield with hyperscalar America will be developed.
And here, OVHCloud is promoting its own quantum computing ecosystem with six emulators already available in Alice & Bob Notebooks, C12, Evide, Pasqal, Quandela and Qiskit and continues to advance with the development of new notebooks, including one from Quobly. In addition, it goes one step further with the launch of its Quantum Cloud platform, in alliance with European and American manufacturers, which will allow quantum calculations not in emulators, but on real quantum computers. The first to be integrated will be Pasqal in 2025 with 100 qubits, and by 2027 it is expected that up to six quantum computers are part of the platform.
