OVH Fires Up Power8 Infrastructure Cloud
October 13, 2014
Grazed from ITJungle. Author: Timothy Prickett Morgan.
OVH, one of the largest cloud computing and hosting providers in the world and the largest hosting provider in Europe, has gotten a bunch of Power8 machines and is offering virtual slices of the machines for customers to play around with as it works out how to more fully commercialize the service.
OVH was founded in 1999 outside of Paris by Octave Klaba, and the name is short for on vous héberge, which is French for "we host you." The company built its first datacenter nearly a decade and a half ago in Paris, and now operates 16 datacenters worldwide. Notably, OVH has operations in North America and Canada now as well as centers in France, Finland, Germany, Italy, Ireland, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, and the United Kingdom. The company has over 180,000 customers that it is hosting, which to put that into perspective is considerably larger than IBM’s SoftLayer customer count (somewhere around 27,000) and is on par with Rackspace Hosting, which has more than 200,000 customers across its cloud and hosting businesses…
OVH likes to embrace new technologies, and significantly likes to build its own servers. On the X86 front, it is tight partners with Intel and Advanced Micro Devices as well as motherboard and component maker Supermicro, and it has server production lines in France and Canada. OVH manages its own supply chain and builds its own machines to cut costs. It also believes in picking the right machine for the job, and for dedicated hosting of relative small sites, it adopted Intel’s Atom server chips two years ago for some of its machinery, as an example…
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