OVHcloud, the European cloud leader, offers a wide array of storage solutions to meet clients’ expectations and scaling needs. With the exponential growth in data volume year on year, the Cloud native architectures are essentially based on non-structured data. To meet demand, OVHcloud now offers a unique experience around different universes with its new High-Performance Object Storage and Standard Object Storage ranges.
High-Performance Object Storage: more features, more geographies
OVHcloud’s the High-Performance Object Storage solution, aimed at the most demanding apps, is based on S3 API and combines reliability and performance. Launched in early 2022 as a highly scalable solution, High-Performance Object Storage continues to evolve and now supports encryption and Object Lock. OVHcloud has also expanded its geographies with an additional French data center in Gravelines (GRA) and launch in North American markets, first with Beauharnois (BHS) in Canada, soon to be followed by two data centers in the US.
Standard Object Storage: the best price/performance ratio now S3 compatible
To address data storage needs with no specific performance constraints, the Group is launching OVHcloud Standard Object Storage. Now addressable through the S3 API, the Standard Object Storage offer is easy to implement and integrates seamlessly within the customer workflow participating in a fully reversible Cloud. At the core of OVHcloud storage strategy, Standard Object Storage stands out by its price/performance ratio with a monthly rate of 9.50 CDN per terabyte. With predictable costs in mind, the offer includes internal traffic to OVHcloud servers.
File Storage: evolution of the NAS-HA service
To meet the high availability storage needs of structured data, OVHcloud is evolving its file storage service with redundancy NAS-HA, which is especially valuable within virtualized environments or collaborative platforms. Integrated in a transparent form to the OVHcloud ecosystem, NAS-HA is fully managed and relies on OpenZFS technology with support for NFS and CFIS protocols. With a totally revamped user interface, NAS-HA is built upon SSD disks. Storage tiers range from 3 to 144 TB with a monthly rate starting at 228.99 CDN for 3 terabytes, without any traffic limitation (in/out). The offer is available in France (RBX and SBG) as well as Canada (BHS).
Cold Archive: secure and long-term data archive
Later this year, OVHcloud will launch its new storage service, Cold Archive – a hyper-resilient solution at a very competitive price. This service, working with Standard Object Storage, will allow businesses to store over the long term, while benefiting from maximum security and reliability. The service is based on:
- 4 mini data centers located across France with at least 200km of distance between sites. With each site interconnected, a permanent level of backup is guaranteed with redundancy mechanisms, to support every situation.
- A resilient tape-based archives solution, developed in partnership with IBM and Atempo. This will provide customers with an ultra-secure storage solution for the very long term with two advantages: a high level of security and low power as soon as data is written on tapes that become offline.
Performance focus: Block Storage adopts NVMe Over Fabric
Block storage is ideally suited for transactional processing as well as databases as it favours speed and adapts to scaling. One possible use case is the ability for customers of OVHcloud’s Managed Kubernetes services to store data from these microservices within the offer.
The Block Storage offer will soon include a solution supporting NVMe Over Fabric. With the use of NVMe SSD and the NVMe protocol, it will provide best possible performance. Based on EXTEN developments, Block Storage Exten will benefit from performances higher than 50K IOPS and will be able to saturate 100 Gbps network connections. A Beta version is expected by the end of this year.
Anand Sahay assumes Global role as Xebia’s CEO
Posted in Commentary with tags Xebia on September 29, 2022 by itnerdAnand Sahay has been elevated as the new Global CEO at Xebia, the leading global IT consultancy Dutch firm, now headquartered in US.
Sahay joined Xebia in 2014 as CEO to take the company beyond Netherlands and co-founded Xebia Global Services. He is the force behind extending Xebia’s business into US, UK, Middle East Africa, APAC and ANZ regions in his role as CEO, Anand will set the ground for Xebia’s next level of growth.
Global CEO of Xebia, Sahay, is a leader-entrepreneur. He has a sharp eye for the latest technologies and weaves unique service offerings around them to create innovative service-line products and tap potential markets. Moreover, collaborating with business leaders, he helps them solve critical problems. In his career, he has had exposure to a diverse range of organizations, functional groups and work cultures. He says these experiences and the people have made him the person and business leader that he is today.
Xebia, under Sahay’s stewardship, developed software engineering prowess to cater to the growing demands of global customers for quality software technology. Building on the architecture, engineering and software craftsmanship learned over the years in the Netherlands, he has brought a unique and refreshing blend of quality and scale. Sahay has led Xebia to be distinctive in the world and helped it to stand out from the other software firms globally.
At present, Xebia is more than 5000 -people-strong worldwide, including 3,000+ people across five centers in India. Xebia’s software adroitness covers every critical capability required to bring successful digital transformation programs for customersacross the world.
As an electronics engineer, Sahay started his career at TCS as a software programmer. He later completed his MBA and moved on to take various leadership roles in life. An avid reader and a philanthropist, Anand is committed to giving it back to the society and enabling people and the environment. A significant association includes The Nudge foundation that exists to alleviate poverty, sustainably, collaboratively and scalability. It has three impact streams to tackle the complex issue of poverty from multiple angles – Centre for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (CSDE), Centre for Social Innovation (CSI) & Centre for Rural Development (CRD). Anand is actively involved with The Nudge Foundation and travels across remote villages to be there for the cause.
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