OVHcloud is a global cloud provider with a mission to power its customers’ data and innovation with freedom. Its core goal is to deliver an open, reliable, and trusted cloud, emphasizing data sovereignty, sustainability, and a strong price-performance ratio. OVHcloud aims to provide businesses with the freedom to achieve their ambitions by offering solutions that are simple, multi-local, accessible, reversible, and transparent. The company is committed to an open ecosystem, utilizing open standards to ensure interoperability and user control over technology.
As Europe’s leading cloud provider, OVHcloud operates an extensive network of data centers worldwide, serving a large international customer base. The company is known for its vertically integrated model, controlling its value chain from server design and manufacturing to data center management and network orchestration. This approach allows OVHcloud to offer a range of cloud products, including public and private cloud, dedicated servers, and web hosting solutions. OVHcloud’s reputation is built on providing secure, cost-effective, and sustainable cloud services, with a particular emphasis on data protection and compliance with European regulations.
Cloud Integrations and Marketplaces
OVHcloud has its own marketplace and also integrates with other cloud platforms and services to enhance its offerings and provide a broader range of solutions to its customers.
- OVHcloud Marketplace: OVHcloud operates its own marketplace, which features a selection of Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions from trusted partners. This marketplace is designed to complement OVHcloud’s core offerings, providing customers with a centralized location to find and deploy additional services that are compatible with the OVHcloud environment. The marketplace was launched in France in 2020 with plans for expansion into other European countries and globally. Solutions on the OVHcloud Marketplace are vetted to ensure they align with OVHcloud’s values of security, transparency, and data sovereignty. Examples of solutions available include security tools like ASGUARD, a sovereign SaaS firewall, and development services from Clever Cloud.
- Google Cloud Platform Integration: OVHcloud has a strategic partnership with Google Cloud. This collaboration has led to the development of a hosted private cloud offering that integrates Google’s Anthos application management platform with OVHcloud’s infrastructure. This allows customers to manage applications across OVHcloud’s private cloud and Google Cloud services, aiming to provide more control over data while enabling a multi-cloud approach.
- Digital Realty ServiceFabric™ Integration: OVHcloud has integrated its cloud solutions into Digital Realty’s ServiceFabric™ platform. This partnership provides enterprises with private, direct access to OVHcloud’s bare metal offerings and cloud solutions, enhancing performance and security by bypassing public internet traffic.
- Other Integrations: OVHcloud’s services integrate with various third-party software and services. For example, Comet Backup can use OVHcloud as a storage destination. OVHcloud also provides documentation and support for integrating its Public Cloud services with tools like Prefect. The company has also worked on integrating products like WebPaaS/Platform.sh and DBaaS/Aiven into its portfolio.
- Presence on other Marketplaces:
- Microsoft Azure Marketplace: While OVHcloud is a significant European cloud provider and is sometimes compared to or mentioned in the context of Azure, direct listings of OVHcloud’s core services on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace are not prominently featured in the search results. One article mentions Alkira’s multi-cloud networking platform, which supports Azure, being available on the Azure Marketplace, and separately notes OVHcloud as a major cloud provider.
- AWS Marketplace: Similar to Azure, direct listings of OVHcloud’s primary services on the AWS Marketplace are not highlighted. OVHcloud is recognized as a key player in the cloud computing industry alongside AWS. One article discusses the AWS Reserved Instances Marketplace and mentions “OVHcloud – COMING SOON” in a list of other cloud providers, but this seems to refer to a feature on a third-party platform (Holori) for managing cloud costs, not a direct OVHcloud offering on AWS Marketplace.
- Google Cloud Marketplace: A search on the Google Cloud Marketplace for “OVHcloud” does not yield direct listings of OVHcloud’s core infrastructure or PaaS/SaaS offerings for purchase through the Google Cloud Marketplace itself. The results primarily show services that can complement or connect with OVHcloud, or are related to multi-cloud management.
OVHcloud’s strategy appears focused on building its own ecosystem through the OVHcloud Marketplace and strategic partnerships that allow integration with its infrastructure, rather than primarily listing its core services on the marketplaces of major hyperscalers like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.
Key People
- Founder & Chairman: Octave Klaba.
- Chief Executive Officer: Benjamin Revcolevschi.
- Chief Financial Officer: Stéphanie Besnier.
- Chief Human Resources Officer: Line Cadel.
- Chief Marketing Officer: Céline Choussy.
- Chief Sales Officer: Caroline Comet-Fraigneau.
- Chief Industrial Officer: Georges De Gaulmyn.
- Chief Information Officer: Mathieu Delobelle.
- Chief Product & Technology Officer: Yaniv Fdida.
- Chief Customer Officer: Axel Mac Namara.
- Chief Service Delivery Officer: Dominique Michiels.
- Chief Legal Officer: Solange Viegas dos Reis.
Key Facts
- Headquarters Location: Roubaix, France.
- Number of Employees: Approximately 3,000.
- Annual Revenue: €993 million (FY2024).
- Parent Company: None (OVH Groupe SA is the legal entity). The Klaba family retains a majority stake.
- Subsidiary Companies: OVHcloud has multiple subsidiaries, including OVH Hosting Inc. and OVH LIMITED. In 2023, OVHcloud acquired the German company gridscale.
- Publicly Listed: Yes, on Euronext Paris (ticker: OVH).
Analyst Recognition
OVHcloud has been recognized by Forrester and IDC in various cloud service categories.
- Forrester: In Q2 2020, Forrester named OVHcloud a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Hosted Private Cloud Services In Europe. Forrester cited OVHcloud’s ability to unify services and provide a Cloud Act emancipated European offering. OVHcloud also received high scores for its permissions, roles, image library, storage options, operations experience, vision, market approach, and certifications in the hosted private cloud category. In the same Q2 2020 report, Forrester recognized OVHcloud as a Strong Performer in The Forrester Wave™: Hosted Private Cloud Services In North America.
- IDC: OVHcloud was positioned as a Major Player in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Public Cloud Infrastructure as a Service 2022 Vendor Assessment. The report highlighted OVHcloud’s attractive and transparent pricing, its service adjacency with dedicated private servers, web hosting, and hosted private clouds, and its strong position regarding sovereign cloud and data residency. More recently, OVHcloud was named a Major Player in the IDC MarketScape: European Public Cloud Infrastructure as a Service 2024 Vendor Assessment. This report noted OVHcloud’s digital sovereignty and sustainability efforts as key strengths. IDC also acknowledged OVHcloud’s investments in software services higher up the stack, such as AI/ML, databases, and container orchestration.
- Gartner: While OVHcloud is listed on Gartner Peer Insights for Strategic Cloud Platform Services with customer ratings, specific placement in a Gartner Magic Quadrant or other formal Gartner analysis for this category was not found in the provided search results. One article mentions that OVHcloud did not figure in the Gartner Magic Quadrant 2022 Cloud Infrastructure & Platform Services. Another article mentions that a partner of OVHcloud, Nutanix, was named a Leader in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure, and another partner, HYCU, was named a Visionary in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Enterprise Backup and Recovery Software Solutions.
- Everest Group: There was no specific mention of OVHcloud being included in Everest Group’s PEAK Matrix assessments in the provided search results. The search results included information about Everest Group’s PEAK Matrix assessments for Google Cloud Services Specialists and Rewards and Recognition Solutions, but OVHcloud was not listed as a recognized vendor in these specific reports.
