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Dedicated servers solve some of the most challenging IT infrastructure problems facing businesses today. They give you full control of your environment with the ability to build your server(s) and customize them to the unique specifications required to run your applications.

What is IPMI? What’s the purpose of IPMI? Why should I care about IPMI? These are all fair questions. In the hosting provider world, IPMI or (Intelligent Platform Management Interface) is thrown around almost as much as “SDDC ” or “IaaS,” but what does it mean, and why should you care? Get the answer to all of these questions here.

As our personal and business life increases its reliance on data, the ability to move and exchange data is compounded to impressive rates. Our reliance on online gaming, video, VOIP, and other applications make latency and bandwidth issues a hot topic.

The OVHcloud™ Legal Team is excited to announce the launch of our new web terms! The July 10th rollout was the culmination of months of hard work and was dependent on input from numerous individuals across all of OVHcloud’s business units. In total six (6) documents were either updated or replaced in their entirety including the Terms of Service, the Data Processing Agreement, the Privacy Policy, the Service Specific Terms, the Service Level Agreement, and the Third Party Terms. Read all about the new web terms here.

OVHcloud™ is excited to announce our newest range of customizable servers are available on OVHcloud. The HG servers allow the consumer to build optimal configurations to handle complex workloads such as; artificial intelligence (AI), Apache® Hadoop, Data Analytics, databases, high performance computing, virtualization, and many others. Our HG configurations are put through vigorous testing to provide you with the best performance, security and cost.

At the end of June, the US National Security Council met to discuss whether legislation is needed that limits the use of encryption for consumers and businesses. DOJ, FBI, DHS, Commerce, and the State Department all attended this meeting to provide their feedback and decide next steps. There was argument and discussion on both sides as to whether this legislation is necessary and whether it would lessen security measures that are needed to protect data. Read all about the prohibition of encryption in this blog post.

At OVHcloud, we are always getting asked by customers about RAID. What is it? How do I configure it? Why do I need it? So, we figured we would compile this information and share best practices when it comes to the different types of RAID. 

On June 8th, 2019, OVHcloud employees from the Reston, VA office completed the 10k/5K for the "Lawyers Have Heart" event. This event was held at Georgetown in Washington DC where we were joined by over 300 different organizations supporting this amazing cause.

If you’ve been going through the server options offered by OVHcloud, you have probably stumbled across our Storage family. With servers that offer up to 72 TB of storage, these servers can hold a significant amount of data. But what are the reasons we could conceivably need this much data? In this article, we will explore three of the biggest use cases for a Storage server: backup repositories, large databases, and housing multimedia content for your website.

On May 2-3, the US Legal team’s Ilona Levine and Kristen Lincoln attended the Global Privacy Summit held by the International Association of Privacy Professionals. Read all about the Summit and our privacy practices here.

In our previous vRack blog post we shared the benefits of vRack, our private networking solution that allows customers to connect their OVHcloud services together, no matter where they are in the world. In this blog post, we will share how a customer would use vRack themselves by going through a couple of scenarios.

OVHcloud has obtained several new attestations and the ISO certification for its product offerings in the east and west coast Data Centers. Hosted Private Cloud, Dedicated Servers and Public Cloud services within the US Data Centers are now officially compliant with ISO 27001, Type 2 SSAE 18 SOC 1&2 I, and Type 1 HIPAA frameworks. This is great news for any customers who are hosting financial or sensitive/ critical data on our servers, and particularly for customers in regulated industries like healthcare.

vRack is a complementary OVHcloud™ layer 2 private networking tool, allowing you to connect all of your OVHcloud servers together across our 17+ Tbps backbone without going over the public internet.

OVHcloud™ is excited to announce its new range of HG servers. This server range is designed to support workloads that involve big data, machine learning and in-memory databases. The HG servers are also the most powerful servers OVHcloud offers. They’re capable of running the most resource-intensive workloads imaginable.

Data is one of the most important assets a business has. No matter how prepared you are, there are many threats to your infrastructure that can result in data loss. Ensuring your data is backed up is one of the most important things you can do to protect your business.

On Friday, March 1st, the OVHcloud™ legal team visited the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children’s (NCMEC) headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia. Founded in 1984, NCMEC is a private non-profit organization whose core mission is to help find missing children, reduce child sexual exploitation, and prevent child victimization. NCMEC proactively provides assistance in the areas of professional training and resources, victim and family support; data analysis, case resources, and education across the country. 

Most businesses, especially small ones with limited resources, can free up a lot of time, effort, and money by outsourcing the maintenance of their infrastructure. OVHcloud™ has been building and maintaining servers for nearly 20 years, and has automated its maintenance in order to provide customers with quick response to issues and peace of mind that whatever you are hosting is secure in our data centers. This blog post will highlight all of the advantages of automated maintenance.

The OVHcloud® Migration Services team just finished a massive project migrating over 150 customers from the vCloud® Air™ colocation facilities into the Hosted Private Cloud product in OVHcloud data centers. Read through one of our customer testimonies to learn more about their migration from vCloud® Air™ to OVHcloud data centers.

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are growing in both frequency and sophistication, and a successful attack can wreak havoc on your business. This blog post will explain how OVHcloud protects our users from all of the common DDoS attacks.

Newcomers to OVHcloud™ will quickly notice that we offer a large range of server options, grouped into “families” that can sometimes be difficult at first to navigate. We’ll dive into each server range more in-depth in the following weeks, but reading through the following customer scenarios might help to point you in the right direction.

One number that OVHcloud has been obsessed with since its early days designing data centers is the Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) of its data centers. PUE is fairly self-explanatory: how efficiently is my data center using energy? By finding ways to reduce energy usage, service providers can reduce overhead. It’s one of the big reasons OVHcloud is able to offer reduced pricing.

OVHcloud is rolling out a new line of storage servers today in our Vint Hill, VA data center, with Hillsboro, OR expected to follow next month. This is the first of several moves aimed at providing dedicated server customers with even greater performance for their most intensive workloads.

While the practice of colocation - renting space in a larger data center where the provider offers power, cooling, and connectivity to the outside world - is a popular option, more companies should consider dedicated hosting. There are many advantages to turning over management of your hardware to a company that is in the business of keeping infrastructure up and running.

IT resilience is not just about how you failover and failback. It’s about where your data lives, how it is protected, and how, when, and by whom it can be accessed. For many organizations, the answer will be a move to the cloud, as one of our higher education customers learned.

Climate change, and the resulting increase in climate-related weather events, are top of mind for consumers and business leaders alike. It impacts industries like energy/utilities and agriculture, but it can also impact supply chains and operations of other organizations, as well, as Harvard Business School students discovered last year. 

OVHcloud recently helped Baylor University, located in Waco, Texas, make a seamless transition to the cloud. Baylor manages a large amount of data for its students, alumni and faculty – as such, having redundancy with both an onsite data center and off-site cloud environment for back-up and recovery was extremely important to their success.

Hot migration is the process of moving an active workload from one data center to another. There are a few scenarios where hot migration would be applicable, but the most popular include extending or replacing a data center or implementing a disaster recovery plan.

Public cloud dominates the cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service discussion, but for many companies, the risks and challenges of moving to the public cloud outweigh the potential benefits. Here, we explore some of those challenges and present an alternative viewpoint to the public cloud hype.

OVHcloud has lowered prices considerably in the US, and that could be good news for web hosting providers and resellers.

OVHcloud has announced new everyday low prices for its line of dedicated servers in a strategy aimed at bringing more US customers in to the OVHcloud environment.

Today, we are excited to announce OVHcloud Public Cloud Service is now available for our U.S. customers.

Manufacturers share many of the same business and technology requirements as firms in other industries, but chief among those are, speed, scale and accuracy. These are typically among the top benefits users cite in survey after survey as their rationale for migrating their apps and workloads to the cloud.

Our first OVHcloud Analyst Day was a great success! With Hurricane Florence’s impending arrival on the East Coast, there was some worry of cancellation, but thankfully, a change in weather allowed for us to continue as planned and analysts from the US, Canada and even the UK were able to fly in and spend the day getting to know OVHcloud.

We’re proud to announce that the Business Intelligence Group has awarded Russell P. Reeder, president and CEO of OVHcloud, a 2018 Stratus Award as a “Top Executive” for Cloud Computing in their annual business award program.

Good question, and we’re here to answer it. In the 90’s, if you were at a New Kids On The Block concert and someone asked if you knew what ‘the cloud’ was, you’d probably answer something along the lines of, “The clouds? They block the sun and produce rain. Why are you asking me this in the middle of a concert?” Nowadays, that question has a more complicated answer. Unless you work in the tech industry, there is a pretty good chance that you’ve heard of it, but you are not exactly sure what it is. That’s where we come in, to help you better understand the cloud.

As little as a few years ago, it would have been impossible to predict the explosion of cloud computing and its enormous impact on the enterprise. A recent report from 451 Research indicates that by 2019, 60 percent of IT workloads will run in the cloud, and that number is sure to grow rapidly. But as more organizations turn toward the cloud, their workloads are simultaneously becoming more complex, diverse and personalized.

We’re excited to announce that the CEO World Awards®, an annual awards program honoring CEOs and organizations of all types and sizes around the globe, recently recognized OVHcloud’s leadership team with two awards:

At OVHcloud, we are continuing to expand our dedicated server line with infrastructure, storage, and game servers! From high performance CPUs to free Anti-DDoS protection, our bare metal servers offer a competitive feature set that caters to business specific needs.

We love to network at cloud conferences. Perhaps the most significant reason is the power of connecting one-on-one to other cloud industry professionals – an asset that you can seldom achieve over email or even video conferencing.

It wasn’t long ago that “distance learning” was just a buzz phrase. But the concept of learning while being tethered only to an internet connection anywhere in the world was so utterly compelling that detractors, if any, were nowhere to be found.

Companies and individuals found non-compliant are subject to fines of up to 20 million euros (approximately $23.5 million) or 4 percent of a company’s total worldwide annual turnover of the preceding financial year—whichever  is higher. Here's what IT leaders need to know to ensure their DR solution/vendor is up to par.

We are passionate about arming enterprise companies with the cloud IT infrastructure they need to support IT resiliency in the spirit of progress and innovation.

While DRaaS is growing in popularity, so too is confusion about both its capabilities and its viability for organizations of different types and sizes. So how do you go about determining if DRaaS is the right choice for your organization? Start by making sure you know what’s real and what’s not when it comes to DRaaS capabilities.

Ransomware attacks have been on the rise for the past three years, particularly against organizations that serve the public. That includes hospitals, school districts, state and local governments and even law enforcement.

OVH US President and CEO, Russell P. Reeder, shares his perspective on the importance of fostering our youth in technology education, especially with girls. Read about why OVHcloud is partnering with local community organizations to close the gap in the technology industry.

OVH is officially open for business in the United States, with the first data center on the East Coast now open and another on the West Coast coming soon. This will add to the expanding global footprint for OVH and will bring the data center total to 28 and over 350,000 physical servers worldwide.

As a consumer, choice is everything and regulations like Net Neutrality that ensure consumer choice are a good thing. As an Infrastructure provider, OVH is wary of any policy change that limits consumer access to innovation and choice because we believe that innovation is freedom.

As mentioned in our Jan 6th blog post, OVH is 100% mobilized to secure our technology stacks and environments against the recently exposed Intel, AMD, and ARM vulnerabilities. We are committed to our products and the security of our customers. Feel free to contact the Customer Support Team 24/7, or your account manager with questions.

Along with the rest of the IT industry, Intel has made OVH aware of some specific vulnerabilities concerning certain processor architectures. Two of these vulnerabilities make it possible to carryout side-channel attacks, based on the same kind of mechanism as previously disclosed in January 2018 named ‘Spectre’.

In its first showing among the Top Ten Public Cloud Providers, OVH ranked 2nd place in North America and 1st place in Europe, surpassing all major American players.

The OpenStack summit, a semi-annual open source cloud event, will take place this November in Sydney, Australia.

The recent WannaCry pandemic mostly affected workstations within businesses, but servers running outdated versions of Windows were not immune either...

On Friday, the 9th of June, three leading figures from the OpenStack Foundation visited OVH’s European headquarters in Roubaix, in northern France...

Part 1: A closer look at cloud users. Who are they? What are their needs? What challenges will they face in the years to come?

The idea of entrusting your sensitive data to a third party was still unthinkable just a few years ago. Today, many companies are externalizing their information...