OpenStack Swift is a distributed storage system that is easy to scale horizontally, using standard servers and disks. We are using it at OVHcloud for internal needs, and as a service for our customers. By design, it is rather easy to use, but you still need to think about your workload when designing a Swift […]
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In our series of articles about migrating web hosting infrastructure from Paris to Gravelines (the first of which is here), we neglected to mention the databases. This is however a very important part, with 800,000 databases to be migrated! In these new series of posts, we will tell you about our experience with web hosting
Web hosting – How do our databases work? Read More »
What is IPMI? What’s the purpose of IPMI? Why should I care about IPMI? These are all fair questions. In the hosting provider world, IPMI or (Intelligent Platform Management Interface) is thrown around almost as much as “SDDC (Software Defined Data Center)” or “IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service)” but what does it mean, and why
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Abstract As a researcher I need to conduct experiments to validate my hypotheses. When the field of Computer Science is involved, it is well known that practitioners tend to drive experiments on different environments (at the hardware level: x86/arm/…, CPU frequency, available memory, or at the software level: operating system, versions of libraries). The problem
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At OVH, our innovation process stimulates internal collaboration. We have seen this with frugal innovation, but also externally with SMEs, schools or laboratories. An example of collaboration with academics is a particular thesis launched this year, about Artificial Intelligence, which focused on Automated Machine Learning field. Collaborative research at OVH through a thesis A CIFRE
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Rappel du contexte Fin 2016, OVH a obtenu l’agrément pour l’hébergement de données de santé sur l’offre Private Cloud. Cet agrément est valable jusqu’au 24 octobre 2019. Durant toute la durée de cet agrément, les clients de l’offre OVH Healthcare s’appuyaient sur OVH pour respecter la loi. Après avoir accepté les conditions particulières de l’offre, ils
La certification HDS expliquée à nos clients OVH Healthcare Read More »
At OVH, our first mission as a cloud service provider is to provide products with high quality of service (QoS). Whether they are dedicated servers, cloud servers or hosted websites, our customers expect our solutions to be very high quality. And that’s exactly what our teams strive to offer you on a daily basis! It’s
Introducing DepC: the OVH platform for computing QoS Read More »
As part of our company’s ongoing business evolution, we are proud to fully embrace OVHcloud as our brand. The time is right for this change – transitioning to OVHcloud reflects fully who we are today and symbolizes our future. Are you ready? The digital world around us is changing every day. It is shaping and
Welcome to OVHcloud! Read More »
In previous articles, we saw what are the operational and techniques constraints of the migration project of our data center in Paris. If you have not followed everything on our technical constraints, I invite you to reread the article presenting the infrastructure of our web hosting. We built our migration scenarios by taking these constraints
Web hosting: How to migrate 3 Million web sites? Read More »
OVH est officiellement en cours de qualification pour son offre Private Cloud. Cette première étape formelle dans le projet de qualification est l’occasion de faire un point sur le dispositif mis en place pour aligner son offre avec les exigences élevées du référentiel SecNumCloud dans l’objectif de fournir un cloud de confiance reconnu comme tel
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