OVHcloud Updated Storage Solutions with Object Storage Offering S3 API Compatibility

OVHcloud Groupe SAS offers storage solutions to meet clients’ expectations and scaling needs.

With the growth in data volume, the cloud native architectures are essentially based on non-structured data. To meet demand, the company offers an experience around different universes with its ‘High-Performance Object Storage’ and ‘Standard Object Storage’ ranges.

High-Performance Object Storage: more features, more geographies

The firm’s 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 scalable solution, High-Performance Object Storage continues to evolve and supports encryption and Object Lock ⁽¹⁾. The company 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 2 data centers in USA.

Standard Object Storage: best price/performance ratio S3 compatible
To address data storage needs with no specific performance constraints, the Group is launching Standard Object Storage. Now addressable through the S3 API, it offer is to implement and integrates within the customer workflow participating in a fully reversible cloud. At the core of the firm’s storage strategy, Standard Object Storage stands out for its price/performance ratio with a monthly rate of £6/TB. With predictable costs in mind, the offer includes internal traffic to the company’s servers.

Availability:

It is available in France from Gravelines data centers (GRA) and will arrive in Strasbourg (SBG) in October and Roubaix (RBX) in November.
This December, the offer is also due to be launched in Germany at its Frankfurt data center (LIM), as well as in the UK in Erith (ERI).
In North America, the offer will be made available in Canada (BHS) in October and in the US in November, at both its Vint Hill, VH, and Hillsboro, HB data centers.

“Data is at the heart of our digital world, whether for business applications, on-demand content or AI. OVHcloud’s storage solutions support the data cycle and are designed to be robust, highly efficient and extremely competitive. They are also universal, thanks to the use of unanimously recognized market standards, reaching all corners of the globe.” said Sylvain Rouri, CSO.

File storage: evolution of NAS-HA service

To meet the high availability storage needs of structured data, the company is evolving its file storage service with redundancy NAS-HA, which is valuable within virtualized environments or collaborative platforms. Integrated in a transparent form to the firm’s ecosystem, NAS-HA is fully managed and relies on OpenZFS technology with support for NFS and CFIS protocols.

With a revamped user interface, NAS-HA is built upon SSD disks. Storage tiers range from 3 to 144TB with a monthly rate starting at £138.49 pounds⁽²⁾ for 3TB, 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, the company will launch its storage service, Cold Archive – a resilient solution at a 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.

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 a secure storage solution for the very long term with 2 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-oF

Block storage is suited for transactional processing as well as databases as it favors speed and adapts to scaling. One possible use case is the ability for customers of the firm’s Managed Kubernetes services to store data from these microservices within the offer.

The Block Storage offer will soon include a solution supporting NVM-oF. With the use of NVMe SSD and the NVMe protocol, it will provide performance. Based on EXTEN developments, Block Storage Exten will benefit from performances higher than 50,000 IO/s and will be able to saturate 100Gb/s network connections. A beta version is expected by the end of this year.

⁽¹⁾ Object Lock: effective lock of an object for a certain time period in order to avoid deletion
⁽²⁾ Price applied from October 1, 2022

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