The server farms of the French OVH out of the ground, like mushrooms after the rain. Its 17 data centers existing in France and Canada, the group said Tuesday, on the occasion of its annual event, OVH Summit, three new facilities immediately available to its million of customers : Australia, Poland and Singapore. The next will open before the end of the year on the East coast of the United States.
” It is the governor of Virginia is moved to Roubaix Valley, to ask us to come, ” said Octave Klaba, the founder of the company, arousing laughter among the 2,000 people present. Another data center on the West coast is expected to follow in early 2017, even if the venue has not yet stopped. “We have a competitor unlikely, the producers of marijuana. This is the first time in my life, ” said Octave Klaba, creating new laughter. The cultivation of this plant, legal in this state, requires large spaces well connected to the electric network… exactly like data centers.
Follow Germany and England by April, and then Spain and Italy in June, and finally the netherlands by the end of 2017. Other geographies will be announced next year, according to the management, which says to invest 1.5 billion euros over four to five years to come. This is to allow the acceleration that the family business has, for the first time, opened its capital to two investment funds (KKR and Towerbrook). The fund-raising of € 250 million was finalized a few days before OVH Summit.
escape the Patriot Act
The infrastructure market on-demand computing is exploding and its champions from the us – Amazon, Microsoft and Google – do double duty. The first two have recently announced the opening of data centers in France. It is therefore not surprising that OVH wants to accelerate its own development. Long reluctant to establish in the United States in the herald of the protection of data of its customers, the roubaisien there is, therefore, resolved, not without having worked with lawyers to escape the Freedom Act (the successor to the Patriot Act) that may allow the american justice access to data. He has created three independent companies – one in Europe, one in Canada and one in the United States – in order to avoid any problem to its customers non-americans.
To go to measure up to the giants of cloud computing on their field, OVH focus on its cloud ” dedicated “, that is to say, servers rental but reserved for a single client – a market on which it has already been proven and where american competition is much lower. In addition to this geographical expansion, the French implementation of new products – a service hosting management mobile app today, for example, or servers with graphics chips or reprogrammable in the future. Finally, as it has historically developed in marketing its offerings directly on the Internet, OVH muscle now its its network of partners, including large system integrators – CapGemini comes to join them – or the telecom networks, such as Rogers in Canada.
The accelerator pedal is to the floor, OVH gives himself four to five years to advance its sales of 320 million to more than a billion euros.
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