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Don’t miss the OVHcloud #EcosystemExperience!

Ludivine Boutry / 2020-10-28 / EcosystemExperience, OVHcloud, OVHcloud Summit, OVHcloudEcosystemExperience, WeAreChangemakers / Uncategorized

November 3rd, 4th & 5th, 2020 For its 2020 edition, the annual OVHcloud event is evolving to meet the challenges of the accelerating digital transformation, by becoming the OVHcloud Ecosystem Experience, a fully online event. Connect with us on November 3rd, 4th & 5th, 2020 to interact with technological and industrial leaders and discover how OVHcloud is changing the game with our ecosystem to fuel businesses with ethics and sustainable solutions. […]

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The Bastion – Part 3 – Security at the core

Stéphane Lesimple / 2020-10-23 / DevOps, Security, The Bastion / Uncategorized

In previous parts, we’ve covered the basic principles of the bastion. We then explained how delegation was at the core of the system. This time, we’ll dig into some governing principles of how The Bastion is written. In a nutshell, the main purpose of the bastion is to ensure security, auditability and reliability in all

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An introduction to DNSSEC

Eric Vergne / 2020-10-16 / DNS, Security / Uncategorized

DNS (Domain Name System) is the “phone book” of the internet – meaning that it translates a human-readable domain name (like ovhcloud.com) into a computer-readable IP (54.39.46.56). The DNS was designed when the internet first started. At that time, the Internet was not as big, or critical as it is today.DNS, therefore, was designed on

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OVHcloud Predictor, part 1

Alexandre Kalatzis / 2020-10-05 / DevOps, Security, Web Hosting / Uncategorized

In our previous article concerning the CVE-2017-9841 vulnerability, we presented our web application firewall (WAF) implemented with NAXSI. Usually, a WAF is run directly on the web server. At OVHcloud, we chose to run our web application firewall upstream, on a very powerful software layer that is specific to our web hosting infrastructures. These are

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Why are you still managing your data processing clusters?

Mojtaba Imani / 2020-09-30 / Apache Spark, Big Data, Cluster Computing, Data Platform, Data Processing, Distributed Computing / Uncategorized

Cluster computing is used to share a computation load among a group of computers. This achieves a higher level of performance and scalability. Apache Spark is an open-source, distributed and cluster-computing framework, that is much faster than the previous one (Hadoop MapReduce). This is thanks to features like in-memory processing and lazy evaluation. Apache Spark

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Toward the Democratisation of Premium Bare Metal Cloud

Octave Klaba / 2020-09-25 / Bare Metal Cloud, Bare Metal servers, OVHcloud News, OVHcloud Thinking / Uncategorized

It is a key part of OVHcloud’s identity to innovate at all levels. Our strength lies in constantly challenging ourselves to better respond to our customers’ challenges. The new features that await them for Premium Bare Metal Cloud are the result of our will to drive change, and listen carefully to our customers’ needs. But

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Improving the quality of data with Apache Spark

Hubert Stefani / 2020-09-15 / Apache Spark, Data Processing, OVHcloud Data Processing / Uncategorized

Today we are proposing you a guest post by Hubert Stefani, Chief Innovation Officer and Cofounder of Novagen Conseil As data consultant experts and heavy Apache Spark users, we felt honoured to become early adopters of OVHcloudData Processing. As a first use case to test this offering, we chose our quality assessment process. As a

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The OVHcloud SSH Bastion – Part 2: delegation dizziness

Stéphane Lesimple / 2020-09-11 / DevOps, Security, The Bastion / Uncategorized

This is the second part of a blog series, here is part one. We’ve previously found that the bastion is not your usual SSH jumphost (in fact, we found it is not a jumphost at all) and we discussed how the delegation was one of the core features we’d originally needed. So, let’s dive into

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A journey through the wondrous land of Machine Learning or “Can I really buy a palace in Paris for 100,000€?” (Part 2)

Guillaume Ruty / 2020-09-03 / A journey into the wondrous land of Machine Learning, Deep learning, Machine learning / Uncategorized

Spoiler alert, no you can’t. A few months ago, I explained how to use Dataiku – a well-known interactive AI studio – and how to use data, made available by the French government, to build a Machine Learning model predicting the market value of real estate. Sadly, it failed miserably: when I tried it on

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Privacy Shield: Invalidation

Gregory Gitsels / 2020-08-31 / Data Sovereignty, OVHcloud Thinking / Uncategorized

On 16 July, in a much-awaited ruling (C-311/18), the Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) dealt a serious blow to the practice of transferring personal data to countries outside the European Union. A bit of history… This case dates back to 25 June 2013, when Mr Maximilian Schrems, an European citizen, filed a complaint with the Irish

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