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OVH

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OVH
TypePrivate
IndustryCloud computing, hosting
Founded1999; 25 years ago (1999)[1]
Headquarters
Roubaix
,
France
Key people
  • Octave Klaba
    (Founder, chairman, CEO)[2]
  • Henryk Klaba
    (President)
  • Miroslaw Klaba
    (R&D director)
ProductsVPS, Dedicated hosting service, Cloud computing, Public cloud, Private cloud, web hosting, DSL
RevenueTemplate:Augmentation €500 million (2018)[3][4]
Websitewww.ovh.com

OVH is a France cloud computing company that offers VPS, dedicated servers and other web services. OVH owns the world's largest data center in surface area.[5] They are the largest hosting provider in Europe,[6][7] and the third largest in the world based on physical servers.[8] The company was founded in 1999[1] by the Klaba family and is headquartered in Roubaix, France.[9] OVH is incorporated as a simplified joint-stock company under French law.

History and growth

OVH was founded in 1999[1] by Octave Klaba, with the help of three family members (Henry, Haline, and Miroslaw).

Funding

In October 2016, it was reported that OVH raised $250 million in order to raise further international expansion.[10] This funding round valued OVH at over US$1 billion. In the fiscal year of 2016, OVH reportedly had €320 million in revenue. In 2018 OVH announced its five-year plans to triple investment starting in 2021. Which represent between US$4.6 to $8.1 billion (4 to 7 billion euros).[11]

Operations

As of 2018, OVH has 27 data centers in 19 countries hosting 300,000 servers.[12] The company offers localized services such as customer service offices in many European countries, as well as in North America, Africa, and Singapore.[13]

(As of 2019), OVH is considered one of the largest so called "cloud computing" providers in the world, with over a million customers and one of the largest OpenStack deployments in the world.[14]

OVH is known for its offering of email hosting service,[15] considered one of the largest in the world,[16] in addition to its general Internet hosting services.

Partnerships

OVH is one of the sponsors for Let's Encrypt.[17][18]

OVH hardware supplier is Super Micro Computer Inc.[19]

Controversies

WikiLeaks

In December 2010, French Gizmodo edition revealed that WikiLeaks selected OVH as its new hosting provider, following Amazon's refusal to host it.[20][21][22] On December 3, the growing controversy prompted Eric Besson, France's Industry Minister, to inquire about legal ways to prohibit this hosting in France. The attempt failed. On December 6, 2010, a judge ruled that there was no need for OVH to cease hosting WikiLeaks.[23] The case was rejected on the grounds that such a case required an adversarial hearing.[24]

Information disclosure and multiple vulnerabilities

In January 2019, the magazine WebsitePlanet uncovered client-side vulnerability in some of the largest hosting companies in the world: Bluehost, DreamHost, HostGator, iPage and OVH.[25]

Email spam

As of November 2019, OVH is listed by The Spamhaus Project as the world's second worst Internet service provider for the proliferation of unsolicited bulk E-Mail (spam).[26]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Clabaugh, Jeff (2016-10-06). "French firm to open 1st US data center in Fauquier Co." (in en). https://wtop.com/business-finance/2016/10/french-firm-to-open-1st-us-data-center-in-fauquier-co/. 
  2. ↑ "OVH reorganises its governance to support new acceleration phase". https://www.ovh.ie/news/articles/a2439.ovh_reorganises_its_governance_to_support_new_acceleration_phase. 
  3. ↑ "France's OVH to triple spending to take on Google, Amazon in cloud computing". Reuters. 2018-10-18. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ovh-strategy-idUSKCN1MS17L. Retrieved 2020-04-18. 
  4. ↑ (in French) OVH Mag, Actualités, innovetions & tendances IT. OVH. pp. 2. https://www.ovh.com/fr/apropos/ovh-mag.xml. 
  5. ↑ Wood, Eric Emin (2016-10-12). "Why OVH opened the world’s largest datacentre in the Great White North" (in en-US). International Data Group, Inc. (IDG) IT World Canada. https://www.itworldcanada.com/article/why-ovh-opened-the-worlds-largest-datacentre-in-the-great-white-north/387358. 
  6. ↑ MSV, Janakiram (2019-05-26). "How VMware Is Transforming Itself Into a Multi-Cloud Company" (in en). https://www.forbes.com/sites/janakirammsv/2019/05/26/how-vmware-is-transforming-itself-into-a-multi-cloud-company/. 
  7. ↑ Coop, Alex (2019-08-27). "Canadian customers’ heads are still in the clouds, and so is VMware’s | Financial Post" (in en-CA). https://www.itworldcanada.com/article/canadian-customers-heads-are-still-in-the-clouds-and-so-is-vmwares/421294. 
  8. ↑ Sarraf, Samira (2017-05-12). "World's third-largest hosting provider OVH opens Melbourne office". nextmedia. http://www.crn.com.au/news/worlds-third-largest-hosting-provider-ovh-opens-melbourne-office-461480. 
  9. ↑ Rosemain, Mathieu; Barzic, Gwénaëlle (2018-10-18). "France's OVH to triple spending to take on Google, Amazon in cloud computing" (in en). Reuters. https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-ovh-strategy-idUKKCN1MS17L. 
  10. ↑ "OVH Partners with KKR and TowerBrook for Further Global Expansion". http://exithub.com/klaba-family-ovh-europe-no-1-web-host-raises-e250m-from-kkr-towerbrook/. Retrieved 9 January 2017. 
  11. ↑ Rosemain, Mathieu; Barzic, Gwénaëlle (2018-10-18). "France's OVH to triple spending to take on Google, Amazon in cloud..." (in en). Reuters. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ovh-strategy-idUSKCN1MS17L. 
  12. ↑ "About - OVH Canada". OVH. Archived from the original on 2018-07-09. https://web.archive.org/web/20180709204140/https://www.ovh.com/ca/en/about-us/. Retrieved 2018-07-09. 
  13. ↑ Williams, Mike; Turner, Brian (2019-08-26). "Best dedicated server hosting providers of 2019" (in en). https://www.techradar.com/news/best-dedicated-server-hosting-providers. 
  14. ↑ Max Smolaks (2019-04-29). "OVH pulls gloves off bare metal fighters as it eyes up US cloud vendors". https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/04/29/ovh_adds_bare_metal_fighters_to_its_roster_looking_to_challenge_the_us_cloud_dominance/. Retrieved 2020-04-18. 
  15. ↑ David Legrand (2017-03-27). "OVH lance une offre E-mail Pro basée sur Microsoft Exchange... mais sans ActiveSync" (in fr). https://www.nextinpact.com/news/103418-ovh-lance-offre-e-mail-pro-basee-sur-microsoft-exchange-mais-sans-activesync.htm. Retrieved 2020-04-18. 
  16. ↑ "Press release for market report". 2020. https://www.arnnet.com.au/mediareleases/77901/us-email-hosting-services-market-is-slated-to/. 
  17. ↑ Lomas, Natasha (2016-04-12). "Let’s Encrypt free HTTPS certification push exits beta" (in en-US). http://social.techcrunch.com/2016/04/12/lets-encrypt-free-https-certification-push-exits-beta/. 
  18. ↑ Gilbert, Guillaume (December 22, 2015). "OVH Commits to Let’s Encrypt to Provide Free SSL Certificates". OVH.COM. https://www.ovh.com/us/news/cp2056.ovh_commits_to_lets_encrypt_to_provide_free_ssl_certificates. Retrieved 21 January 2016. 
  19. ↑ Mawad, Marie (2018-10-18). "OVH Keeps Super Micro as Supplier, Vets Hardware In-House". Bloomberg News. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-18/ovh-keeps-super-micro-as-supplier-vets-hardware-in-house. 
  20. ↑ Greenberg, Andy (September 13, 2012). This Machine Kills Secrets: How WikiLeakers, Hacktivists, and Cypherpunks Are Freeing the World's Information. New York (New York), USA: Random House. ISBN 978-0-753-54801-1. https://books.google.com/books?id=bIaZf663Z2cC. Retrieved 2015-07-23. "Within days, they had registered the URL and set up an SSLprotected site and a Tor Hidden Service in an OVH data center in the French city of Roubaix, the same one that briefly housed WikiLeaks' publications until they migrated to Sweden." 
  21. ↑ Vinocur, Nick; Love, Brian (2010-12-03). "France seeks to bar hosting WikiLeaks website" (in en). Reuters. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-wikileaks-idUSTRE6B22UY20101203. 
  22. ↑ Greenberg, Andy (2010-12-03). "Despite Attacks, WikiLeaks' Swedish Host Won't Budge". https://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2010/12/03/despite-attacks-wikileaks-swedish-host-wont-budge/. 
  23. ↑ "French web host need not shut down WikiLeaks site: judge". 2010-12-06. https://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iojKm00N9vMvjVGwO2ZNko9rVpBw?docId=CNG.3c86e1065eee2cfd740284f4a84f3555.121. 
  24. ↑ "Following the wikileaks case". OVH. 6 December 2010. Archived from the original on 15 March 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20120315223621/http://forum.ovh.co.uk/showthread.php?t=4916. Retrieved 15 October 2013. 
  25. ↑ "Report: We Tested 5 Popular Web Hosting Companies & All Were Easily Hacked". 15 January 2019. https://www.websiteplanet.com/blog/report-popular-hosting-hacked/. 
  26. ↑ "The SpamHaus Project - SBL". https://www.spamhaus.org/sbl/listings/ovh.net. 

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