How do you get your data closer to your business while navigating move to cloud complexity? How can you ensure better infrastructure performance for your customers worldwide? Discover OVHcloud Local Zones: a groundbreaking compute solution for you, your customers and partners’ global expansion.

In this blog post, you will learn how to navigate through cloud architectures challenges. Unlock a realm of opportunities to expand globally while acting locally. Find out how to enhance your business with closer-to-use cloud infrastructure.

From centralized data centers to local data

For years, the traditional cloud architecture relied on a few centralized data centers. This often lead to data residency issues and unsatisfying user experience due to latency. Now, with our global infrastructure deployment concept comes a new era. OVHcloud Local Zones shorten the long distances travel of your data. Ensuring localized owned management of your infrastructure. You can now have the power to choose wherever you want to host your data globally and how to protect the most sensitive ones locally. 

“Cross-border data transfers can have a huge positive impact on the economy by 2030 if we make the right decisions now.” – Hilary Mine, President of DIGITALEUROPE 

How to help your data navigate the right way with Local Zones

OVHcloud’s Local Zones extend the reach of its infrastructure to key urban hubs across several countries. Within the coming years, we will offer new infrastructure in 150 cities. These infrastructures simplify localization of sensitive data. On top of that, it improves application performance across the board, without imposing exorbitant costs or complexities on organizations. 

Three Ways Local Zones Help International Companies 

1. Store Data Locally: Operating in multiple countries often entails grappling with regulatory complexities. Local Zones enable businesses to store data within the same country. With a minimized latency, ensuring faster content delivery, and facilitating data localization and protection. 
2. Scale with Confidence: Locating data centers nearest to areas of high user demand is strategical. That’s why Local Zones allow companies to deploy at scale and expand their services seamlessly. All of this while maintaining reliability and freedom of choice. Always, at the best price performance ratio.
3. Improve User Experience: In an age where consumers demand lightning-fast responsiveness, Local Zones facilitate the hosting of services locally, resulting in lower latency and higher user satisfaction.

Expand Safely with Local Zones 

That’s right. It goes without saying that data residency and state-of-the-art computing are crucial. What’s more, reduced latency and international expansion make OVHcloud an indispensable partner for companies on the road to digital transformation. Especially if you’re looking to gain a competitive edge in the global marketplace.

Ready to Elevate Your Business with OVHcloud? 

Whether you’re navigating complex data localization or sensitiveness or striving to deliver unparalleled user experiences, OVHcloud’s Local Zones can offer.  

OVHcloud Local Zones make real the principles of Edge Computing offering businesses robust, flexible, and secure cloud solutions. Don’t miss our suite of offerings including:

• B3 compute instances,
• Block storage,
• Object Storage S3 compatible
• Volume snapshots
• Automatic back-up
• An expanding array of new features coming up!
  
  OVHcloud isn’t just meeting industry standards—it’s setting the pace.

And the perspective for your business development with Local Zones doesn’t stop there. Indeed, with Kubernetes, volume snapshots, automatic back-up on the horizon: the future looks brighter than ever for those seeking top-tier cloud services. Meanwhile, you can already learn how to create a kube cluster in a Local Zone through managed rancher service (thanks Aurélie).

So, just dive in! The OVHcloud Local Zones journey is only just beginning…

Our upcoming local zones deployment worldwide:

• Boston
• Oslo
• Helsinki
• Copenhagen
• Manchester
• Salt Lake City
• Phoenix

Reach out today to explore how OVHcloud can help you gain a measurable competitive advantage in an increasingly digital world.

Recognizing that data is now key to many industries, OVHcloud supports its clients in their data journey. Without compromising data sovereignty and trusted cloud. Nor performance or security. When building its open and trusted Cloud, OVHcloud ensured that customers, partners and cloud users alike can keep their freedom of choice on a secure space. Providing users with clear, transparent, and accessible information on regulations applying to their data. OVHcloud offers a trustworthy environment. A place where data, including the most sensitive one, is protected with the highest standards and transparent certifications. This unique proposition, backed by a resilient infrastructure, ensures that your data stays your data. All the while being immune to extra-territorial laws. We are confident that data sovereignty and trusted cloud can make a difference.

What is Trusted Cloud and how does it support data sovereignty?

Trusted Cloud provides the highest levels of security, privacy, and transparency for its users. It gives industries the tools and the confidence to leverage the cloud for their digital transformation, while preserving their values, interests, and competitiveness.

In other words, Trusted Cloud provides data protection and sovereignty, that encompass both cybersecurity and legal dimensions:

• It ensures that the data of its users is encrypted, and backed up. With this in mind, users keep track of their data usage and have full control and ownership over their data and the insights derived from it. Trusted cloud complies with the strictest regulations and certifications (SNC, C5…) and offers contractual guarantees to its users.
• It gives its users the visibility and the control over the operations of the cloud provider, such as where the data is stored, who can access it, and how it is processed. 

OVHcloud Trusted cloud solutions contribute to the development of a European cloud market that is diverse, dynamic, and resilient. For this reason, our solutions comply with various certifications, including the highest known today in protecting organizations, industries, and governments’ interest: SecNumCloud.

What is SecNumCloud qualification all about?

SecNumCloud is issued by the French National Cybersecurity Agency (ANSSI). Its goal is to guarantee that the cloud service meets the strictest requirements in terms of data protection, and data sovereignty. The SecNumCloud standard covers requirements relating to the service provider, its employees and the way in which services are provided. It guarantees the robustness of the solution in the face of the most common cyber-attacks, as well as the rigor and formalization of the service provider’s processes and methods. The qualification process is a long-term guarantee, ensuring a relationship of trust between service providers and ANSSI.

The requirements of SecNumCloud’s most recent qualification (SecNumCloud 3.2) guarantee the protection of cloud services from non-European law thanks to a combination of three types of measures:

– technical: watertightness test standards of information systems;

– operational: only the service provider can intervene on the resources supporting the service;

– legal: exclusive application of European law.

What is at stakes with SecNumCloud is the use of this qualification for both public administrations and private organizations. Domains – industry sectors – such as finance and banking, health and cybersecurity, anchor their expansion to their ability to protect cloud data and cloud services.

OVHcloud has recently received the SecNumCloud 3.2 qualification on three distinct datacenters located in France: Gravelines, Roubaix and Strasbourg. With an unparallel commitment to SecNumCloud, OVHcloud is a firm believer that the qualification can guarantee the future of business for industries and administrations. For which cloud is now a center piece and a driver for disruption. By providing them with a trusted cloud solution that enables to store, process, and share their sensitive and strategic data.

OVHcloud can support European public and private organizations:

– by offering them a range of cloud services SecNumCloud qualified (such as Hosted Private Cloud, which is a dedicated, scalable, and hybrid cloud solution);
– OVHcloud’s SecNumCloud services are hosted in its own data centers in France;
– OVHcloud ensures that no data is accessible, transferred, or processed outside the European Union.

Extended certifications to meet local regulations

While SecNumCloud is the highest standard of security and data protection available today, our Cloud is multilocal and meets a number of stringent international certifications, such as:

1. ISO/IEC 27001 (International): Widely adopted internationally, including in European countries, this standard focuses on information security management systems.

2. C5 (Cloud Computing Compliance Controls Catalog) certification (Germany): the certification is a recognized standard for cloud service providers that emphasizes information security and data protection. It is designed to ensure compliance with German and European data protection requirements. C5 incorporates elements from ISO 27001 but adds specific criteria tailored to cloud services.

3. ENS (National Security Scheme or Esquema Nacional de Seguridad) certification (Spain): it establishes a common framework of basic principles, requirements, and security measures for adequate protection of information processed and services provided by electronic means. OVHcloud has obtained the highest level of the ENS certification ENS High.

How OVHcloud is paving the way for trusted cloud in Europe

Trusted cloud is pivotal to our customers ensuring they can continue innovating through a secure, reliable, open, and sustainable cloud.

At a European level, OVHcloud meets the most demanding certifications in the countries/markets in which it operates.

Our Group supports the establishment of a future European Cloud Certification Scheme (EUCS), which would provide users with harmonized EU-wide certification and maintain the same high standards of transparency and data protection, including against extraterritorial legislation for the most sensitive data.

If you want to learn more about trusted cloud and how OVHcloud can help you achieve your digital ambitions, please visit our website.

We are convinced that trusted cloud is the future of cloud computing. That it is a strategic asset for the digital sovereignty and the competitiveness of the ecosystems in industries. We invite you to join us in this journey and to discover how OVHcloud can help you to achieve your digital ambitions with trust and confidence.

Links SecNumCloud Trusted Cloud Sovereignty

(1)SecNumCloud: Le visa de sécurité ANSSI

OVHcloud. https://www.ovhcloud.com/fr/enterprise/certification-conformity/secnumcloud/

You were so many to attend physically here in Paris, France but also watching our video streaming around the world. We want to thank you all!
For those of you who wish to relive or discover the replay and deep dive into the break-out sessions detailed, you can watch the replay here:

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A vibrant ecosystem to boost your business!

With you, our ecosystem, we shared on our success in accelerating the transformation of infrastructures, data analytics and storage in the cloud technology. Together, we demonstrated our capacity to manage AI challenges for businesses. Including what’s at stake in terms of geopolitics and ethics. And of course, how this technology is a new way for the ecosystem to do business.

Demonstrating our international growth, with USA now being the second biggest market, the Group continues to innovate. OVHcloud is as resolutely focused as it has ever been on the cloud. Now at the center of every business and contributing to a blooming ecosystem of trusted solutions in Europe. From its first servers in 2003, using a bespoke water-cooling system, to AI and quantum computing, OVHcloud stands for innovation, exploring new possibilities, delivering value. We are paving the way for the whole industry.

“ I’m delighted to be back with you today. Remember… In 2013, when the first edition of the OVHcloud Summit was held, less than 40% of humanity was connected to the Internet. 10 years later, we’re approaching 65%! Amazing! And I haven’t changed … well, almost, but digital technology has transformed our lives...” Octave Klaba, OVHcloud founder and chairman.

Together, let’s grow faster and bigger!

Our strength relies on our ecosystem. “Your success is our success” as Michel Paulin, OVHcloud CEO likes to refer to. It’s no surprise for you we make sure to involve our ecosystem to consistently build strategies around fruitful collaborations with market leaders to integrate innovative solutions. For the past three years, we have developed dedicated programs to boost our market and accelerate innovation cycles.

To start with, the Startup Program counts more than 3,700 startups. These members can benefit from a unique mentoring, network opportunities, but also trainings, how-to’s and webinars to unleash the potential of cloud innovations for their business development.

In France and Europe, in a wide range of fields: quantum technology, with some 15 start-ups, in the field of AI with Gladya and Lighton, and also in fintech, Greentech and Adtech Among the newest comers, Gladia and Lighton has recently joined the Startup Program.

Accelerating its ecosystem amplification, the company has redesigned the OVHcloud Partner Program, to better support digital transformations. With company like Capgemini, Accenture, INETUM, CGI, Klee, Inetum… We take great pride in our dense network of partners today. Whether they are in Germany, United Kingdom or US. This is also another way in which the company is focusing on its globalization. ”Our Partner Program revenue account for 30% of OVHcloud’s revenue: the fastest-growing segment at present.” Nicolas Romele, Marketing Director, Partnership & Ecosystem

Local zone: a data center breakthrough for you and your customers!

With the introduction of OVHcloud Local Zone, we are bringing the benefits of our cloud even closer to our customers. Expanding on our global footprint, the Group plans to open 150 local zones throughout the world by 2026. And it starts right now in 2024 with two Local Zones. These two new Local zones are opening in the weeks to come in Madrid, Spain and Brussels, Belgium. By the summer 2024, 17 new local zones should follow swift: 6 in USA, Zürich in Switzerland, Amsterdam in Holland, in Italy, and Marseille in France.

Complementing on our deployment models, Local Zones have a number of advantages for our customers:

1. Proximity: By situating these Local Zones closer to where you operate, we minimize the distance data needs to travel. This proximity translates to significantly reduced latency, ensuring lightning-fast access to your applications and data.
2. Enhanced Performance: With the Local Zone, you can expect exceptional performance gains. Applications that demand low-latency, high-throughput, and real-time processing will benefit immensely, enabling you to meet your business objectives more effectively.
3. Resilience and Redundancy: Our Local Zone architecture is designed with redundancy and resilience in mind, ensuring high availability and data integrity. This means peace of mind for you, knowing your critical workloads are in a robust and secure environment.
4. Scalability and Flexibility: This deployment model offers scalable resources tailored to your needs. You’re a startup seeking rapid expansion? Or an enterprise requiring dynamic resource allocation? We got just what you need! The Local Zone provides the flexibility to scale effortlessly.
5. Compliance and Data Sovereignty: By offering localized services, we adhere to regional compliance requirements. Respecting data sovereignty and ensuring that your data remains within specified geographic boundaries.

Region 3-AZ

Introducing Region 3-AZ in Paris France. Region 3-AZ refers to a new availability zone with distinct data centers within a specific geographical region that are isolated from each other in terms of power, cooling and network activity. These AZs enhance redundancy and reliability for your users’ data and services by providing additional infrastructure and options for deployment. With Region 3-AZ in the starting blocks, we invite you, our customers, to give a test drive through our unique Beta test program available on our Labs. Your feedback are mostly welcome!

A Cloud Native Platform totaling over 40 products

Over the past few months, we delivered a staggering number of products, including Metal Instances, Cold Archive or the highly anticipated OVHcloud IAM. Today, OVHcloud Public Cloud portfolio is on a fast-paced growth trajectory, with over 40 products and the following new solutions:

• New Compute Instances: Available now, OVHcloud’s new compute instances are powered by AMD EPYC processors. You can benefit from increased performance, scalability, uses cases (optimized for AI/ML workloads, gaming applications, video rendering, or scientific simulations!), at the best price performance ratio!
• Rancher for heavily containerized workloads: enterprises, devOps teams, cloud-native applications or managed service providers are going to love it! Rancher will simplify complex containerized environments, making them more manageable, scalable, and secure, thereby benefiting a wide range of businesses and IT professionals dealing with heavily containerized workloads.

Democratizing AI (with data, that stays your data)

AI, data analytics and soon quantum need the cloud to be accessible.

That’s why we delivered a new end-to-end data platform. Our goal is to offer a unique low code solution for management of the data pipeline and analytics. OVHcloud Dataplatform is designed for this purpose, providing customers with a complete and smooth experience. For their data journey complete with the availability to collect (50+ available connectors), store, manage, analyze, and visualize data efficiently and securely in a unified environment.

By leveraging the OVHcloud Data Platform, customers and partners can unlock the full potential of their data, driving innovation, efficiency, and competitiveness in their businesses. Test the beta on our labs: OVHcloud Labs

OVHcloud AI App Builder: As Octave announced at the Summit Keynote. “At OVHcloud, we are willing to democratize AI. We want to make it more accessible…With “AI App Builder” – a platform that respects the 3 characteristics that benefit you – your data remains your data, the technology is simple to use, and your costs are transparent. The first Alpha version we are proposing is a full managed serveless solution. Providing an easy way to build contextualized generative AI apps and chatbots. This brand new tool allows our customers to input their private datasets in a secured cloud environment, select cutting-edge LLM, in just a single click! You can deploy code ready to use for your application.”

OVHcloud AI Endpoints: “Developer with no expertise will also appreciate our new AI Endpoints solution: this solution provides API for generic use-cases like translation, speech, document analysis, … Dozens of AI models will be available at launch with a playground to test them before implementation. Alpha version expected on Q2FY24, beta for Q3FY24.” Germain Masse, IA and Data Product Marketing Lead.

We are looking forward connecting again with all of you on our coming events! Save the date: KubeCon on March 2024, 20 to 22. For this major international event, we will be holding a pre-event meeting with Suse on March 19. At this event, we will be presenting the Rancher Managed Service, following our announcement at the OVHcloud Summit 2023.

A perfect opportunity to meet our experts, customers, partners, technology enthusiasts and also entrepreneurs engaged with OVHcloud on this collaborative journey.

 A program to deep dive in your key business topics

This program has been designed to cover all the cloud challenges and diversified universes:

– 30 strategic sessions to develop your business (Data Evolution, AI Revolution, Worldwide Expansion, Human Experience, Common Vision) with our dynamic ecosystem made up of key industry players: Expert testimonials, customer experience, solutions for your data augmented by the power of AI, storage, infrastructure and hybrid cloud strategy, GreenOps approaches

– A 2-hour keynote:
In the first part, our experts will share the Group’s vision for the next coming 5 years. Starting with our strategic initiatives alongside pioneers in the quantum ecosystem and edge computing. But also, our products and solutions roadmap. In the second part, they’ll move on to the 3 hot business topics of the moment: Data Healthcare, AI power, new cloud infrastructure deployment models.

Our selection of not-to-be-missed sessions during the Summit:

– How Sopra Steria deployed generative AI at OVHcloud,

– Innovate with dedicated servers (AI & VDI),

– Unleash the power of AI with new NVIDIA GPUs and AI Endpoints,

– Accelerate your journey to hybrid multicloud with Nutanix on OVHcloud,

– Discover the new OVHcloud multi- and hybrid-cloud solution: “Managed Rancher Service”,

– The OVHcloud carbon calculator, a reference tool serving a GreenOps approach,

– New ranges and Saving Plans, the computing revolution,

– Edge at scale with OVHcloud.

I plan my sessions!

What’s in it for you?

Indeed, this is a unique opportunity for you to dive into the heart of innovation. You will benefit from the feedback of our customers and our 40 startups, partners and sponsors: Sopra Steria, AMD, Samsung, Console Connect, NetApp, Klee Group, PWC, Cognix Hosting, Intel, Suse et Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Veeam, DataDirect Networks.

Don’t miss this game changer event to help you take advantage of the wide range of expertise within our ecosystem and turn it into a lever for your business transformation.

Want to join us? Nothing could be simpler. Register now to grab the last seat available (numbers are limited).

🙏🏻 A big shout-out to everyone who have encouraged and helped us prepare for this day, to our partners and sponsors, and to all for their attendance and participation!

Join us!

Looking forward to seeing you all!

OVHcloud Team

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Retrouvez experts, clients, partenaires, passionnés de technologie et entrepreneurs dans cette aventure collaborative

Un programme pour approfondir vos sujets business clés 

Ce programme a été imaginé pour couvrir tous les enjeux et les univers du cloud dont vous avez besoin :

• 30 sessions thématiques stratégiques pour développer votre business avec notre écosystème composé des acteurs clés de l’industrie : témoignages d’experts et de clients, solutions pour vos datas augmentées par la puissance de l’IA, stockage, stratégie infrastructure et cloud hybride, démarches GreenOps,
• Une keynote de 2 heures: Dans la première partie, nos experts partageront la vision du Groupe pour les 5 années à venir. A l’affiche, nos initiatives stratégiques aux cotés des pionniers de l’écosystème quantique et de l’edge computing. Mais aussi, notre roadmap produits et solutions. Dans la seconde partie, vous pourrez assister aux 3 sujets business phares du moment : Data Healthcare, AI power, nouveaux modèles de déploiement d’infrastructures cloud.

Notre sélection de sessions à ne surtout pas manquer :

– Comment Sopra Steria a déployé une IA générative chez OVHcloud ;
– Innovez avec les serveurs dédiés (AI & VDI) ;
– Libérez la puissance de l’IA avec les nouveaux GPUs NVIDIA et AI Endpoints ;
– Accélérez votre parcours vers le multicloud hybride avec Nutanix on OVHcloud ;
– Découvrez la nouvelle solution multi- et hybrid-cloud OVHcloud : « Managed Rancher Service » ;
– La calculatrice carbone d’OVHcloud, un outil de référence au service d’une démarche GreenOps ;
– Nouvelles gammes et Saving Plans, la révolution du compute ;
– L’Edge à l’échelle avec OVHcloud.

Je prépare mon programme

Ne manquez pas cette occasion unique de plonger au cœur de l’innovation ! Profitez des retours d’expérience de nos clients, 40 startups, partenaires et sponsors : Sopra Steria, AMD, Samsung, Console Connect, NetApp, Klee Group, PWC, Cognix Hosting, Intel, Suse et Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Veeam, DataDirect Networks.

Vous pourrez ainsi tirer parti de la pluralité des expertises de notre écosystème afin d’en faire un levier de transformation business.

Envie d’en être ? Rien de plus simple. Inscrivez-vous dès maintenant pour retenir votre place (nombre limité).

🙏🏻 Un grand merci à celles et ceux qui nous ont encouragé et aidé à préparer cette journée, aux partenaires aux sponsors, et à tous ceux qui feront vivre cet événement !

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Retrouvez notre précédente annonce OVHcloud Summit!

The OVHcloud teams are delighted to invite you to the Maison de la Mutualité in Paris (5e) on November 28^th,2023, for the special 10-year edition of the OVHcloud Summit, “Shaping the Future of the Cloud”.

Register now!

Over 1,000 key players from our ecosystem expected

This event will bring together a wide range of key industry players: IT directors, CTOs, and the broader C-suite, partners, developers, students, start-ups and investors. Together, we will collaborate to tackle the challenges of business transformation with the next-generation cloud, with highlights including new PaaS solutions, presentations of the latest AI & DATA product releases, move-to-cloud strategies and services for industry (healthcare and space industries) not forgetting our commitment to quantum computing.

Thanks to this synergy, let’s make sure that the cloud not only meets your present and future needs, but also becomes a real lever for your business transformation!

30 sessions, 70 speakers and 1 keynote

At 1pm, you’ll be able to choose from around 30 themed sessions, where you could talk to our teams and partners, and startups, discover new use cases, take advantage of new features and learn from customer feedback.

These sessions will help improve your knowledge and deepen your understanding of topics including Data Evolution, the AI Revolution, and new deployment models.

It will also be an opportunity to meet numerous partners, to enhance your value proposition and help you make the most out if for your business.

Then at 5.30pm, key highlight of this event: our keynote with our speakers who will take turns on stage to present our vision, the strategy and the latest innovations, our products and solutions roadmap and, last but not least, our actions in favor of a trusted cloud that is ever more inclusive, interoperable, sustainable, efficient and affordable.

Technology experts and decision makers, are you ready to dive into the heart of this ecosystem and extend your community to create a sustainable advantage in your market?

I’d like to take part in the event!

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Les équipes d’OVHcloud ont le plaisir de vous convier à la 10^e édition de l’OVHcloud Summit, le 28 novembre prochain de 12h à 21h30. Cette année, l’événement se déroulera à la Maison de la Mutualité (Paris 5^e) et s’articulera autour de la thématique Shaping the future of the Cloud.

Je m’inscris !

Plus de 1 000 participants attendus

Ce rendez-vous sera l’occasion de réunir un large éventail d’acteurs du secteur : directeurs IT, CTO, C-level, développeurs, partenaires, clients, start-ups, investisseurs et étudiants. Ensemble, nous aborderons les enjeux business du cloud de demain avec des temps forts autour des solutions PaaS, la présentation des dernières sorties produits IA & DATA, des stratégies move to cloud ou encore des services à destination des industries (santé, secteur publique, aérospatial, etc…), sans oublier nos engagements pour l’informatique quantique.

Grâce à cette synergie, faisons en sorte que le cloud ne réponde pas seulement à vos besoins présents et futurs, mais soit aussi un véritable levier pour votre transformation business !

30 sessions, 70 orateurs et 1 keynote

Dès 13h, vous aurez le choix parmi une trentaine de sessions thématiques ! Vous pourrez échanger avec nos équipes, nos partenaires, et start-ups, découvrir de nouveaux cas d’usage, tirer parti de nouvelles fonctionnalités et apprendre des retours d’expérience de nos clients.

Objectifs de ces sessions : améliorer vos connaissances et approfondir votre compréhension de l’évolution des données, la révolution de l’IA et les nouveaux modèles de déploiement.

Ce sera également l’occasion de rencontrer nos nombreux partenaires ! L’objectif : optimiser votre proposition de valeur et aider votre entreprise à tirer le meilleur parti de l’IA.

Puis, à 17h30, temps fort de l’événement : notre keynote avec nos speakers qui se relayeront sur scène pour vous présenter notre vision, la stratégie, ainsi que les dernières innovations, la roadmap produits et solutions. Ceci, sans oublier nos actions en faveur d’un cloud de confiance, toujours plus inclusif, interopérable, durable, performant et abordable.

Experts technologiques et décisionnaires : êtes-vous prêts à plonger au cœur de cet écosystème et étendre votre communauté pour créer un avantage durable sur vos marchés ?

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