April 2023

5 ground rules to secure your storage

My data is an asset. Let’s share the best practices to protect your data. If you feel that security is a constraint, it’s time to think again! In this blog post, I will share with you 5 simple rules that can be easily implemented to secure your back-ups without headache thanks to the “Objects Storage Standard-S3 API” […]

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How to grow your business in India with OVHcloud

How to grow your business in India with OVHcloud

As part of our Group’s expansion in Asia Pacific, we have launched our first data center in India. APAC is home to a large and diverse market of businesses and consumers,and the launch of our new site enables us to support the region’s growth demand for cloud-based services, driven by the increasing adoption of digital

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Collaborating on open-source projects: an example with FreeBSD and OpenZFS

Collaborating on open-source projects: an example with FreeBSD and OpenZFS

OVHcloud develops a reversible, and open Cloud where interoperability is key thanks to open-source. This approach participates in offering a transparent Cloud with no vendor lock-in aligning with our belief of being stronger together and thus going further. As an actor of the open-source community with several software releases benefiting from an open-source license, we

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How the cloud can help you successfully release video games

How the cloud can help you successfully release video games

The most popular video game franchises continue to appeal to gamers thanks to ever-increasing resources among publishers. Despite being up against big names in the market, more and more independent studios are also finding great success by tapping into new concepts. With faster release cycles, up-and-coming studios need to be flexible to compete with AAA

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Picking our Prometheus' remote storage

Picking our Prometheus’ remote storage

If you are running an IT system you are most likely using an Observability stack along it. Nowadays, the question’s no more whether or not you need Observability but more like how will you compose your stack. At OVHcloud, we have been running a scalable timeseries backend for years now. During the last year, we

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Heavy cost-cutting – MDDV optimizes software houses’ infrastructures with hybrid cloud solutions

Heavy cost-cutting – MDDV optimizes software houses’ infrastructures with hybrid cloud solutions

MDDV is a unique team of IT experts who provide management, support, consulting and IT security services (including security audits) to over 500 companies and institutions across the global market. In particular, they specialise in building sophisticated IT infrastructures for software houses and eCommerce businesses, and workwith multiple customers from the financial and legal sectors.  Since 2005,

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Benchmarking Prometheus like a pro with k6

Benchmarking Prometheus like a pro with k6

In our previous posts about choosing a Prometheus remote storage we have seen how to set up a benchmarking infrastructure and how to benchmark promql performance. We have been able to obtain results but the whole benchmark is flawned in many ways: This blog post discuss how we should have benchmark our remote storage. How to

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