OVHcloud inaugurates its new datacenter in Strasbourg: SBG5. As part of its strategic plan, OVHcloud confirms the opening of 15 sites by 2024, to provide its customers with innovative IaaS and PaaS solutions in a trusted and sustainable framework. This ambitious industrial policy will enable the Group to expand existing sites, conquer new geographies, and also address new use cases through a hyper-resilient and sustainable model.

In line with its commitments, the Group will launch a new datacenter dedicated to raw data backups (snapshots), located remotely from service operating sites. First deployed for French customers, the Group intends to extend this service to cover its entire range of solutions and locations. In addition to this remote storage solution, OVHcloud provides a variety of services to facilitate backup and disaster recovery, such as Veeam Enterprise for securing business via the backup of strategic workloads (VMWare, physical Windows/Linux servers or NAS), and Zerto for the backup and restoration of virtual machines as part of disaster recovery plans on Hosted Private Cloud infrastructures.

Finally, OVHcloud will launch a new storage service in November 2022 - Cold Archive - a hyper-resilient solution at a very competitive price. This service will allow businesses to store so-called "cold data" on the long run, while benefiting from maximum security and reliability. The service is based on: 4 mini datacenters spread across France with at least 200km of distance between sites.

With each site being interconnected, a permanent level of backup is guaranteed with redundancy mechanisms, whatever the situation is. A resilient tape-based archives solution, developed in partnership with IBM and Atempo. This solution will be marketed as soon as November 2022 to provide customers with an ultra-secure storage solution for the very long term.

With a view to reducing its environmental impact, the SBG5 site benefits from the principles of frugality and efficiency refined by OVHcloud for over 20 years, especially its watercooling system for server components that participates in a water usage effectiveness (WUE) ratio below 0.2l/kWh, i.e. the equivalent of a glass of water to cool down a server during 10 hours of use. While the Cloud industry average WUE reaches 1,8l/kWh1, OVHcloud stands out due to its closed-circuit system that limits fluids waste, but also due to the use of dry coolers, and the absence of air conditioning in its serversÆ rooms. These innovations enable the Group to reach a power usage effectiveness (PUE) index ranging from 1,1 to 1,2, 36% lower than the 1,572 industry average according to 2021 estimations. By deploying a model that participates in reducing the energy consumed by cooling systems and fans, OVHcloud is one step ahead of the industryÆs commitments towards the European Commission.

This whole set of environmental requirements meets the highest expectations from the market and will pave the way for all the upcoming installations from the Group. Due to its factories located in Croix, France, and Beauharnois, Canada, OVHcloud has total control over the design and production of its servers, benefiting from significant advantages in terms of innovation, competitiveness, and resilience. With this vertically integrated model, OVHcloud enjoys short, circular manufacturing circuits.

French Regulatory Authority ARCEP, and French Agency for Ecological Transition, ADEME, both estimate that 78% of the Cloud carbon footprint comes from manufacturing of hardware. OVHcloudÆs ability to refurbish and dismantle 100% of its components results in extending their lifecycle for constant innovation. The Group is maintaining its efforts to optimize the use of resources and to better control the environmental impacts of its activities on the entire value chain, particularly in scope.