Cloud Computing revolutionized the way the industries operate by moving from an IT and HW fabric centric approach to a seamless Infrastructures by abstracting HW and SW to Cloud Service Providers (CSPs). After almost 11 years of Cloud and IT revolution, we asked to our partners (System Integrators and Managed Services Providers) where they see …
Is Multi-Cloud the real future of Cloud Computing Industry? Read More »
A tale of migration to the cloud The benefits for clients to shift their applications and IT landscapes to the cloud are already well understood. It usually revolves around expected performance gains, scalability advantages of cloud-native products, boosted productivity, security and greatly reduced maintenance efforts for all assets leveraging cloud platform services. In summary the ultimate goal is shifting from …
Cloud Transformation: how to bring clarity and speed to your cloud migration project Read More »
Let’s talk about data security and protection: a tale of how a Customer was able to leverage the OVHcloud architecture to become a market leader. Migration to the cloud offers countless advantages and seems to be an inevitable step in the development of any modern enterprise. Those advantages become clearly visible in most sectors, especially …
Object Storage has been designed to store massive amount of unstructured data. It is typically a great fit for storing static files such as medias (pictures, movies, music …) and documents, and access them through API. Deployed in the cloud, it brings great benefits as organizations can store their growing amount of data without worrying …
Systran: a migration from AWS S3 to OVHcloud Object Storage Read More »
This post is another part of our list of short posts pinpointing specific cases OVHcloud has dealt with, both preparing for and during the migration. Here, we tell a story of how sometimes, a little unexpected behaviour can lead to a bug fix in a software program used by millions of people around the world. …
As explained thoroughly in an earlier post, the P19 migration meant we needed to add a new element to our infrastructure… namely the ProxySQL. Life was not easy for it at first, but it soon learned how to handle the diverse range of configurations your websites have, particularly when it comes to making sure the path connecting …
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 »
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 …
How to win at the massive database migration game Read More »
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 …
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 »
