François Sterin

Francois is Executive VP, Chief Industrial Officer at OVHcloud. In this role, Francois leads the technical infrastructure of OVHcloud from the servers assembly lines to the design , construction and operations of the datacenters globally. Francois joined the OVHcloud adventure 3 years ago in 2017 after 15 years of experience in developing global infrastructure for Telecom and Internet companies. Francois spent 13 years at Google, to lead the hypergrowth of this platform, early on with the extension of the global network , then mega datacenter sites, and eventually helping those to become 100 % renewable powered.Before that, for 2 years, Francois worked on the Orange group worldwide backbone  

5 keys to understand the Climate Neutral Datacenter Pact

5 keys to understand the Climate Neutral Datacenter Pact

Players in the cloud industry are joining forces to reach climate neutrality by signing a Climate Neutral Datacenter Pact. This first-of-a-kind pact is the industry’s contribution to the ‘European Green Deal’ – a set of green policies initiated by the European Commission. Where does this pact come from? The European Green Deal recently announced aims […]

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The customer’s role in data center eco-responsibility

The customer’s role in data center eco-responsibility

OVHcloud, as European champion with global reach, is faced with major challenges, such as rising temperatures and increasing climatic disasters. We support the growth of the global internet, even as cloud infrastructure requirements continue to intensify. In 2020, to support our customers we must respond to their massive requests, and face together a large-scale healthcare

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Revue des datacentres 2019, step 1 : Strasbourg, France, Europe centrale

Strasbourg, 4 septembre 2018. Nous  avons démarré le passage en revue de nos infrastructures avec les datacentres de Strasbourg, noms de code SBG 1,2,3 et 4. Pendant plus d’un mois nous allons faire une tournée et inspecter nos 12 sites et 28 datacentres déployés à travers le monde. Le tout avant notre événement annuel, l’OVH

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De la tôle au serveur connecté (1)

Avec mes équipes, nous gérons les infrastructures sur lesquelles s’appuie l’activité d’OVH. Nous concevons et déployons les datacenters, les serveurs et le réseau. À travers cette série d’articles de blog, je vous propose de découvrir le « cœur de la matrice » et de mieux comprendre comment fonctionne notre modèle. Pour démarrer, je vais simplement

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