OVH, the largest European Internet hosting company, has launched its Public Cloud service in the UK, further cementing the company’s commitment to Public Cloud as the basis of its future roadmap.
To reassure UK businesses concerned about data security, loss and privacy in the cloud, the OVH Public Cloud comes with customisable DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) protection against cyber attacks, triple data replication and hosting in European-based data centres,. Targeted at developers, system administrators and DevOps, the service is backed up by a ‘five nines’ Service Level Agreement (SLA), guaranteeing 99.999% availability and reliability of OVH’s cloud infrastructure.
Monthly and hourly payment options enable customers to scale their Cloud capacity relative to their needs, rather than over-committing their resources. Additionally, OVH offers a 50 per cent discount on its monthly payment plans.
“OVH Public Cloud is more than just a new service we’re launching to the market. It will form the basis of all future services on the OVH roadmap. So we’re putting out money where our mouth is,” explains Octave Klaba, CTO of OVH. “Our Public Cloud is designed to create complex hybrid architectures, combining private infrastructures with virtual machines and public instances. This is supported by a comprehensive selection of IaaS services which we believe to be unique in the industry.”
“We want UK businesses to adopt the cloud with confidence, whether that’s in terms of security, availability, cost or resources,” explains Hiren Parekh, director of sales and marketing at OVH UK. “The OVH Public Cloud provides a robust solution that can be scaled flexibly, and does not tie businesses to one vendor. Our aim is to give users the freedom and flexibility they need as their businesses evolve. We are really excited about this product and it is just the beginning. New features are being added on a regular basis to enhance it, such as network functionalities to facilitate hybrid cloud.”
Tailoring the Cloud to users’ priorities
Public Cloud Instances provides a choice of two types of virtual machines: the RAM instances are designed for memory-hungry purposes such as running SaaS applications, creating multimedia content, or managing large databases. Cloud CPU instances lend themselves to managing processing-heavy tasks including data analytics, computer simulations and managing peak server loads.
The Public Cloud Storage service offers high-availability object storage, which can be used to warehouse and access large amounts of binary content for application development. In this way, software developers can avoid the hassle of having to set up NFS or FTP servers specially. Classic and high-speed storage options are also available. Included in all OVH Public Cloud packages are automatic, unlimited DDoS protection against all types and lengths of attacks, including detection and auto-mitigation; and triple data replication, saving organisations the hassle of having to put their own redundancy measures in place.
All of the packages also come with access to OVH Net, OVH’s own global fibre optic network. The network is managed using DWDM (Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing) and is currently being migrated to 100G coherent technology, offering a total capacity of 3 Tbps.
