Quantum computing: Hype or reality? OVH says businesses would be better off prepared
Understand the technology before you are taken by surprise, argues CTO
HPC25 Apr 2023 | 14
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OVH punts hybrid water and immersion cooling for high performance systems
Air by itself just doesn't cut it anymore
Energy Efficient Datacenters13 Apr 2023 | 10
Euro cloud providers react to MS potentially cutting deal on antitrust
Transparency? Redmond's heard of it
Off-Prem30 Mar 2023 | 2
Ransomware scum launch wave of attacks on critical, but old, VMWare ESXi vuln
You’ve had almost two years to patch and some of the software is EOL, now attackers déployer un rançongiciel
Security06 Feb 2023 | 15
French cloud operator OVHcloud gets datacenter funds from EU lending arm
Using loan for expansion as political bloc pursues tech autonomy strategy
Systems25 Nov 2022 | 31
Euro clouds lodge another complaint against Microsoft over anti-competitive licenses
Updated CISPE says Redmond's recent concessions did not level the playing field
Off-Prem09 Nov 2022 | 26
OVH opens less flammable datacenter at site of 2021 fire
This time it has sprinklers and the batteries are outside the building – where they flaming well belong
On-Prem13 Sep 2022 | 28
OVHcloud opens up Bring Your Own IP service for IPv4 failover
Anyone planning to migrate to IPv6 then? Bueller?
Networks07 Sep 2022 | 4
OVH to hike prices, blames 'l'inflation'
Energy costs are up 40 percent and OVH isn't going to eat that without sharing some pain
PaaS + IaaS23 Aug 2022 | 29
OVHcloud datacenter fire last year possibly due to water leak
French investigative report draws no conclusion but hints at inverter malfunction
Off-Prem10 Jun 2022 | 27
Cable cut blamed for global four-hour internet disruption
Google Cloud, OVHcloud say everything's getting back to normal, which is a shame
Networks07 Jun 2022 | 14
The Register talks to Microsoft's European cloud rivals about getting a fair deal
What do we want? Open standards, just licensing and a level playing field, say OVHcloud, Scaleway and others
PaaS + IaaS06 Jun 2022 | 14
OVH: The cloud should be open, reversible, interoperable
Interview CEO Michel Paulin on coming back from a datacenter blaze and playing nicely with others
PaaS + IaaS10 May 2022 | 11
OVHcloud raises 2022 forecast, cites growing demand for data sovereignty
Europe's great cloud hope is growing but AWS, Microsoft and Google won't be losing sleep.... yet
PaaS + IaaS14 Apr 2022 |
Microsoft faces EU antitrust complaint from OVHcloud
Several companies 'taking action to ensure a level playing field among cloud services providers' in Europe
PaaS + IaaS17 Mar 2022 | 9
OVHcloud to share its OpenStack automation for use in on-prem clouds
Also finds a way to bring its water-cooled servers to third-party bit barns, especially in Asia
Off-Prem17 Nov 2021 | 2
Keep expectations low and you won't be disappointed: OVH manages 6 per cent increase on its IPO debut
French cloud provider puts outage and fire behind it to focus on beating the big players
On-Prem15 Oct 2021 | 2
OVH blames hour-long global outage on human error during 'routine' network reconfiguration
'No impact expected' then pop – and weren't they in the process of an IPO?
On-Prem13 Oct 2021 | 10
OVH drops IPO target against figure mooted a month ago
Still plans to raise €350m and aim for non US-cloud fans
Systems05 Oct 2021 | 3
Like a phoenix rising from the smouldering ruins of its data centre, OVH sets sights on IPO
Tells market not to worry – insurers will pay $58m to 'cover the consequences of the fire'
On-Prem20 Sep 2021 | 6
OVH outlines three-point 'hyper resilience' plan after Strasbourg fire
Please insert tape number 363 of 4087*
On-Prem06 May 2021 | 21
OVH services still not fully restored as boss rates ongoing recovery efforts a 'real nightmare'
'A huge Tetris' as biz struggles prepping kit for relocation under renewed COVID lockdown
Off-Prem14 Apr 2021 | 24
OVH reveals it's scrubbing servers – to get smoke residue off before rebooting
Quite a few have come back online, but it takes seven hours to restore each rack
Off-Prem29 Mar 2021 | 61
OVH flames scorched cloud customers with pledge to build data centre fire simulation lab
Restoration of some services at destroyed data centre promised for this week, SBG1 data centre status in doubt again
Off-Prem23 Mar 2021 | 44
OVH writes off another data centre – SBG1 – and reveals new smoking battery incident
Customers concerned over 2017 posts describing power outage, confession to sub-par design
Off-Prem22 Mar 2021 | 29
OVH says burned data centre’s UPS, batteries, fuses in the hands of insurers and police
Video Promises free backup of everything, forever, because some customers assumed that's what clouds do
Off-Prem17 Mar 2021 | 78
OVH says some customer data and configs can’t be recovered after fire, some seems to be OK, plenty is safe
Data centres are on track for restoration from March 22nd and more than 3,500 new servers already secured
Off-Prem15 Mar 2021 | 24
OVH founder says UPS fixed up day before blaze is early suspect as source of data centre destruction
Cloud company offers slightly confused roadmap to restoration
Off-Prem12 Mar 2021 | 81
Talk about a Blue Monday: OVH outlines recovery plan as French data centres smoulder
Updated Servers affected include those used by ESA, Villarreal football club, and some misused by malware miscreants
On-Prem10 Mar 2021 | 63
OVH data centre destroyed by fire in Strasbourg – all services unavailable
Updated SBG2 just gone. SBG1 damaged. SBG3 at risk. SBG4 safe. Customers told to activate DR plans
Off-Prem10 Mar 2021 | 264
OVH rises to Europe data sovereignty challenge (and AWS) with tape-as-a-service
Storage cost saver combines IBM tape, Atempo software and OVH data centres
Storage20 Jan 2021 | 4
Cutting the ties: European hosting provider OVHCloud to offer Google Anthos, no Google account needed
Full Euro data sovereignty, promises cloud company
SaaS11 Nov 2020 | 17
Cloud'n'server hosting giant OVH more like OMG: Data center hardware failure knocks out services in France
Bad case of the Mondays
SaaS30 Mar 2020 | 8
OVH pulls gloves off bare metal fighters as it eyes up US cloud vendors
Big hot machines for large customers, cheaper boxes for small biz
Systems29 Apr 2019 | 5
OVH prepares not-discounts to not-match AWS, Azure, et al
As bit barn builds subside, increased quotas and capacity will land at the same price
SaaS22 May 2018 |
OVH goes TITSUP again while trying to fix its last TITSUP
Attempt to harden network failed, badly, so the call's gone out to Cisco for help
SaaS07 Dec 2017 | 26
OVH data centres go TITSUP: Power supply blunders blamed
Updated Thanks, initial testing seems unduly problematic
Networks09 Nov 2017 | 49
What did OVH learn from 24-hour outage? Water and servers do not mix
Coolant leak crashed VNX array at web host's Paris data centre
Storage13 Jul 2017 | 31
OVH-VMware deal skips Australia, will snuff vCloud Air's public bits
Focus will be on Europe, US
SaaS05 Apr 2017 |
Adieu pour toujours! VMware flogs vCloud Air hosting biz to OVH
French corp catches Pat Gelsinger's hot potato
SaaS04 Apr 2017 | 4
OVH's northern customers offered steamy southern summer holiday
Bit barn lights are blinking in Singapore and Australia,
for members only
for members only
SaaS29 Nov 2016 | 3
OVH decides to Fauquier the cloud in America
That's Fauquier County, Viriginia, chosen as its first US bit barn and HQ
SaaS07 Oct 2016 | 4
Top server host OVH warns of 'multi-stage' hacking attack
'Higher level of paranoia' suggests EU and US users should change passwords
Security23 Jul 2013 | 7
Biting the hand that feeds IT
