In October 2018, just before the OVHcloud Summit, I joined the Product Unit Platform as Program Manager. A new challenge came with this new role… to support the team working on a new product: OVHcloud Managed Kubernetes. The deadline was short, we had lots of things to do, and we needed to provide visibility to both […]
The birth of agile telemetry at OVHcloud – Part I Read More »
Last year, we released TSL as an open source tool to query a Warp 10 platform, and by extension, the OVHcloud Metrics Data Platform. But how has it evolved since then? Is TSL ready to query other time series databases? What about TSL states on the Warp10 eco-system? TSL to query many time series databases
TSL (or how to query time series databases) Read More »
In our previous articles, we explained why we had to move 800,000 databases from one datacentre to another, 300 kilometres away. So here we are… We did it!Now we will focus on a very important goal of any migration. From your point of view, as a customer, you must see… Nothing! I understand this completely,
migrate-datacentre –quiet: How do we seamlessly migrate a datacentre? Read More »
OVHcloud recently got a new name to emphasize its focus: the cloud, to empower you to run your workloads easily, without caring too much about the underlying hardware. So why talk about FPGAs? An FPGA is a hardware accelerator, a reconfigurable chip that can behave as custom silicon, designed for a specific application. We use
Using FPGAs in an agile development workflow Read More »
Depuis octobre 2016, OVH propose de l’hébergement de données de santé à caractère personnel (HDS). Aujourd’hui, beaucoup de choses ont évolué : OVH est devenu OVHcloud, notre hébergement de données de santé est passé d’un agrément à une certification et plusieurs centaines de clients utilisent les solutions OVHcloud Healthcare. Forts de cette expérience, nous pouvons à présent
OVHcloud Healthcare, aux petits soins pour vos SI de santé Read More »
In the first part of these articles, we demonstrated how storing small files in Swift may cause performance issues. In this second part we will present the solution. With this in mind, I will assume that you have read the first part, or that you are familiar with Swift. Files inside files We settled on
Dealing with small files with OpenStack Swift (part 2) Read More »
OVHcloud has always kept customer relationships at the heart of its strategy. Three years ago, by setting up the freephone (1007 number in France for instance), OVHcloud set itself apart from other providers by including high-quality support with its services. To address the structural challenges associated with this commitment in a period of rapid growth,
OVHcloud customer service changes Read More »
Happy New Year, everybody! In this first post of 2020, I would like to indulge in a review of the last year for the OVHcloud blog. A busy first year for the new OVHcloud blog The OVHcloud blog was rebooted in January 2019. Our aim was to build a technical blog in English, use it
A year in review — the OVHcloud blog Read More »
What is Object Storage? Did you know that a large volume of data on the internet is held by object storage? Object storage is a static data storage solution which lets you simply expand storage without having to add more hardware. The benefits of this still misunderstood cloud service are multifold and they include high
OVHcloud Object Storage clusters support S3 API Read More »
Benchmarking is a much debated topic in the computing industry due to the countless methods and approaches. However, this blog will not list all of these approaches but instead provide an insight into the way we benchmark different kinds of storage available under our Hosted Private Cloud solutions. Before discussing this in more detail we
Industrialising storage benchmarks with Hosted Private Cloud from OVHcloud Read More »
