OVHcloud Teams Up With Atempo

OVHcloud, a trading name of OVH SAS, is collaborating with IBM Corporation and Atempo SAS to develop a storage-as-a-service to meet European enterprise and public institution security, sovereignty and resilience needs for the preservation of sensitive data.

The solution will be based on IBM enterprise tape technology and an Atempo software stack hosted and operated by OVHcloud in new data centres in French territory.

With the growth of data produced by the cloud, storage optimisation has become essential, because of costs and compliance risks. As organisations look for ways to store, manage and leverage value for this ever-increasing amount of data, tape will play a strategic role in addressing storage infrastructure challenges.

Tape solutions offer the lowest cost per terabyte of storage; the technology provides the security, scalability and durability to safely store critical inactive and cold data over the long term. When stored properly, data on tape will still be legible in 30 years’ time. Put simply, storing data on tape costs mere pennies per terabyte and when not in use, requires zero energy consumption unlike HDDs and SSDs.

Tape meets hybrid cloud for scalable, secure and affordable data strategy
OVHcloud will launch a cloud storage offering aimed at both public and private European organisations, which will guarantee security and resilience for the long-term preservation of their sensitive data. This long-term storage solution is based on the IBM Enterprise 3592 enterprise tape technology and orchestrated by Atempo’s technology platform Miria, a VTL management solution. OVHcloud will innovate through the addition of erasure coding 9+3 technology for data protection, allowing replication and split of user data.

To address the concerns of European professionals around data localisation, the solution will be hosted and operated by OVHcloud in 4 new dedicated facilities, all located in France and each separated by several hundred kilometers. Security is a priority for OVHcloud, which recently obtained the ANSSI Security Visa for the SecNumCloud that qualifies its hosted private cloud solution and demonstrates the highest level of IT security, in line with recommendations from the French National Agency for Information System Security, for hosting sensitive and strategic data.

The combined expertise of the 3 partners provides users with a solution that meets the regulatory requirements for data conservation, will be S3 compatible, feature rich and competitively priced for price/performance ratio.

“We are very pleased that the convergence of IBM, Atempo and OVHcloud expertise results in a reliable and sovereign data preservation solution,” declares Sylvain Rouri, chief sales officer, OVHcloud. “Public and private organisations will benefit from a unified and highly secure storage experience with our high-performance solutions built in a trusted cloud.“

“We are honoured to be selected as the core Tape technology provider by OVHcloud for their cloud storage offering,” says Mike Doran, WW sales director, IBM. “This is another proof point for the enduring value that IBM Enterprise Tape provides to organisations as they look to cost effectively and securely store ever growing amounts of critical data.”

“There is a deep yearning of professional organisations for a trusted cloud. At Atempo, we are excited to join forces with IBM, and OVHcloud as we pave the way for a new era, a new digital deal, which goes far beyond the borders of the European Union,” concludes Luc d’Urso, CEO, Atempo.

Selected to join the French Tech 120, a government program designed to nurture 25 unicorns by 2025, Atempo is headquartered in Paris and is present in Europe, the US and Asia with a network in excess of 100 partners, integrators and MSPs.