The OVHcloud Public Cloud offers a new series focusing on high-performance graphics

RESTON, VA – May 31 - 2017 - As a reminder, the GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) is a graphics processor equipped on the servers’ motherboards. This technology offers a significant advantage for activities involving high-performance graphics (video transcoding, sequence preview), research applications with large databases, or deep learning.

How does it work?

Powered by the NVIDIA Geforce GTX 1060 6GB GPU, these new instances are providing all the benefits of Public Cloud (high availability resources, billed hourly) for OVHcloud customers who require high-performance graphics and substantial parallel computing.

This offer is open to everyone; all you need to do is create a new Public Cloud instance, and then choose the GPU series among the options available (CPU, RAM, etc.). GPU instances come with 15 GB of RAM at the rate of $0.343/h (or $123.20/month) or with 30 GB of RAM for $0.529/h (or $190.40/month).

An offer that’s already proving its worth

As a startup specializing in collaborative projects and multimedia processing, Weaverize was the first to test this infrastructure thanks to the support of the OVHcloud Digital Launch Pad program which offers credits and advice to young innovative companies. “Using the GPU has allowed us to process a large amount of data volume up to 1,000 times faster than with a classic Public Cloud instance; this is a significant gain in terms of performance — and, of course, cost! In practice, this formula will allow us to aggregate a lot of traffic while complying with the high requirements of our business, but also to easily take on load peaks thanks to the flexibility of the Public Cloud instances; these are all advantages that provide exactly what our startup needs”, notes Rémi Auguste, founder of Weaverize.

Public Cloud continues to be a success

This new feature was introduced only a few days after the announcement of the Cloud Spectator 2017 ranking, in which the company took first place in Europe, and second in North America. Every year, Cloud Spectator compares the various public cloud offers available on the market, based on their performance/price ratio. 

Efficient, secure, and flexible, Public Cloud passes the test with flying colors thanks to some valuable assets still at the heart of OVHcloud’s requirements: ownership of an 11 Tbps global network, anti-DDoS protection included by default, triple data replication, hourly or monthly billing, all this topped with an SLA of 99.999%... 

With the launch of its GPU instances, OVHcloud is confirming its commitment to putting the Public Cloud at the service of global innovation.

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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