OVHcloud Joins Ubuntu Certified Public Cloud Programme

RESTON, VA – March 31 - 2017 - Canonical and OVH today announced they are engaging as partners in public cloud, VPS, bare metal, and Private cloud. OVH is joining the ranks of other major cloud providers included in Canonical’s official program for the distribution of Ubuntu guest images, Certified Public Cloud (CPC).

OVH is the European leader of the cloud and has recently been expanding globally in North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific. Ubuntu has a massive lead in the public cloud arena, running most workloads today thanks to its security, versatility, and policy of regular updates. Being a Ubuntu Certified Public Cloud Partner ensures that when OVH customers choose Ubuntu, they are secure in the knowledge that they have the latest Ubuntu image authorized and secured by Canonical.

“We have delivered same-day in-region patches, for every security update since 2013, which has minimized bandwidth costs and downtime for Ubuntu users running on those clouds. OVH users benefit from the same”, said Udi Nachmany, head of the public cloud at Canonical. “And as Ubuntu is also running 55% of production OpenStack deployments, we are especially happy about a leading public cloud like OVH, based on Ubuntu OpenStack, joining our program.”

OVH customers will be able to use the same operating system, with the same dependable experience, whether they are working with OVH’s bare metal (Dedicated Servers) or cloud (Public and Private Cloud, and VPS) services.

”As a business that has grown from small into a global giant, innovation has always been part of OVH’s DNA,” Germain Masse, Technical Director at OVH, said. “As part of the new partnership, Canonical will work with OVH to continue to optimize and adjust Ubuntu to new hardware and platform offerings laid out by the group for the customers.”

OVH customers will also be able to purchase professional support for their Ubuntu deployments from Canonical’s Ubuntu Advantage Shop. This support also provides access to Canonical Livepatch as well as Extended Security Maintenance for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.

About OVHcloud US

OVHcloud US is an open cloud infrastructure provider built on a simple principle: the cloud should make organizations more agile without forcing a trade-off on cost, control or the freedom to move workloads where they belong. The company delivers high-performance infrastructure with transparent, predictable pricing and no lock-in for organizations in the United States and around the world. Its portfolio spans Bare Metal Cloud, Hosted Private Cloud and Public Cloud — three environments customers can mix and interconnect into a single hybrid whole, scaling across them while retaining full control of their technology choices, with regional security, compliance and data residency available where required. OVHcloud US draws on the global network of OVHcloud, a global cloud player and the European cloud leader, which operates 46 data centers worldwide serving 1.6 million customers in more than 140 countries across four continents. Backed by that scale and more than 25 years of integrated infrastructure expertise, OVHcloud US gives organizations the freedom to innovate, operate with confidence and scale on their own terms.

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