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 […]
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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
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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
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In our previous post we talked about how our water block technology evolved from 2003 to 2014. Today we continue on this theme, exploring this technology post 2015. We will focus on the current generation of water blocks, and give you a sneak peek of the improvements to come. 2015 As 2015 approached, our key
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Every company is seeing its volume of data growing at an exponential rate, and it seems there is no way to reduce the quantity of data we rely on everyday. But at the same time, we have to extract value from this data, in order to optimise, improve and accelerate our business and the way
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One of OVHcloud’s successes is our ability to develop and promote innovation, in both IT and industrial practices. For two decades, we have placed innovation at the centre of our strategy, it’s part of our DNA. We are constantly researching and developing new technologies to optimise the performance of our services. We manufacture our own
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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… My team and I did it! It was a real brain-burner, so I hope our story will help you to address more of the huge technical projects we love to
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During the OVHcloud Summit last October, we announced the recent filing of 50 patent families. These patent applications obviously concern our “hardware” innovations (you know that we manufacture our servers, racks, cooling systems…) but also software patents, because contrary to popular belief it is possible to patent certain software (under certain conditions, but this is not the subject
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In our tour of OVHcloud’s Internal Databases Infrastructure, we showed you what our infrastructure looks like. This post will be about SQL replication, why it matters, and how we use it at OVHcloud. Nodes are not enough: they have to work together. To do that, we rely on a feature called replication to keep data
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Today, most applications rely directly or indirectly on databases. I would even take a bet and say that a large portion of those are relational databases. At OVHcloud, we rely on several dozens of clusters hosting hundreds of databases to power thousands of applications. Most of those databases power our API, host billing information and
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