With the establishment of its second location in Canada, OVHcloud is continuing its significant global growth as a cloud infrastructure provider. OVHcloud’s 42nd data center is located in Cambridge, Ontario, right in the heart of one of the most active innovation hotspots in North America. According to OVHcloud, it provides cloud solutions that meet the heightened demands of data governance, performance, and resilience required by Canadian organizations.
As one of the world’s largest cloud hosting providers from France with global presence, OVHcloud has had a presence in Canada since 2011. With 250 employees and 90,000 servers, it currently operates out of an environmentally responsible data center on Montreal’s South Shore.
OVHcloud is now launching its inaugural Ontario location, backed by a CAD 145 million investment spread over the next eight years, aimed at nurturing customer growth and demands within an enhanced trust framework. This investment includes, in its first phase, the hiring of a number of qualified talents.
This new data center, with a surface area of 1,000 m2, a capacity of 10,000 servers, and 2MW of electricity, is situated in the Ascent TOR1 hyperscale complex. It would represent the technical know-how that has given OVHcloud its reputation for “operational quality and energy efficiency,” making it more than simply a data center. In keeping with the expectations of businesses that wish to maintain complete control over their digital assets, OVHcloud’s vertically integrated model – it builds up to 600 servers a week in its Beauharnois plant – as well as the industrial scale-up of its water-cooling technology are key differentiators in ensuring an ideal performance-price ratio and a managed environmental footprint.
“This new data center marks a major turning point in the history of OVHcloud in Canada, enabling our customers and businesses in the Toronto area to strengthen their infrastructure while retaining full control of their cloud journey, free from any form of technological or pricing lock-in,” said Estelle Azemard, Vice President Americas, OVHcloud. “We’re also looking forward to making a difference by continuing to innovate for a sustainable digital environment.”
Major North American Tech Corridor Cluster
The new data center would be able to accommodate the escalating needs of heavily regulated sectors that are becoming more and more adamant about data sovereignty. Healthcare, finance, professional, public, and telecommunications services can all rely on OVHcloud’s adherence to industry certifications (ISO 27001-017-018, SOC 2 Type 2, CSA Star), and on its cloud solutions’ complete immunity from extraterritorial laws like the US Cloud Act.
“Late last year, I was pleased to have the opportunity to meet with Michel Paulin, CEO OVHcloud, and tour the OVHcloud facility as part of the WREDC mission to Europe,” said Mayor Jan Liggett, City of Cambridge. “I am proud to welcome OVHcloud to Cambridge as they continue their international expansion by choosing Cambridge as their second Canadian location. OVHcloud is a leader in the industry and committed to sustainability, optimizing data center energy consumption through innovative and more efficient cooling systems, as well as reducing IT components waste. This long-term investment of $145 million helps to strengthen the Toronto-Waterloo Region Innovation Corridor, the 2nd largest technology corridor cluster in North America, and continues to position Cambridge as a top-tier destination for technology businesses, talent, and investors from around the world.”
OVHcloud’s Cambridge data center in Canada now offers a competitive array of options that would satisfy the following requirements:
- Dedicated servers that are geared for workloads that are mission-critical and built for intricate infrastructures. With the most recent AMD and Intel CPUs powering them, they can handle the demands of AI, storage, and hyper-convergence without sacrificing availability or performance.
- A comprehensive object storage solution that works with the S3 API and is useful for both data backup and platform upgrade.
- Network and connectivity features, such as load balancing across different data centers efficiently and additional IP for application flexibility. Ultra-low latency to the greater Toronto area is available via the Ascent TOR data center.
- The OVHcloud Connect solution, which would allow its on-premises infrastructure to be 100% private and resiliently connected to the OVHcloud network (with an SLA of 99.99%), with ample network bandwidth available.
- Free OVHcloud features like Anti-DDoS, which defends infrastructures from cyberattacks, and their vRack private network, which links services across multiple OVHcloud data centers.
By activating Veeam or Zerto virtualized solutions in a 100% dedicated environment, businesses looking to increase their degree of resilience will have an extra choice when Broadcom’s Private Cloud solution employing VMware is enabled (anticipated in 2024).
