Our History

OVHcloud turns 20, and serves more than 1.5 million customers around the world.

Michel Paulin joins Octave Klaba as CEO. OVH becomes OVHcloud, structuring its offer around 4 markets representing its customers various needs.

Office Opening: India

Acquisition of vCloudAir, the VMware cloud activity in the United States.

Data Center Openings: VintHill (US), Hillsboro (US), London (UK), Frankfurt (DE), Warsaw (PL), Singapore (SG), Sydney (AU), Strasbourg (FR), Roubaix (FR), Gravelines (FR), Beauharnois (CA)

Increase in capital of 250 million euros with KKR and Towerbrook,
with a view to accelerating international development.

Data Center Openings: Roubaix (FR), Beauharnois (CA)

Launch of the startup support program.

Data Center Openings: Strasbourg (FR), Beauharnois (CA)

Europe’s biggest data center with a capacity for 400,000 servers, built by OVH in Gravelines (France). Free Anti-DDoS protection extended to all customers.

Data Center Openings: Gravelines (FR), Strasbourg (FR), Roubaix (FR), Beauharnois (CA)

Next stop: North America, with the opening of offices and a data center in Canada.

Office Openings: Canada, USA

Data Center Openings: Beauharnois (CA), Strasbourg (FR)

OVH becomes Europe’s no. 1 web hoster, and is rewarded by VMware for its Private Cloud. The teams develop the Public Cloud based on OpenStack.

Data Center Opening: Roubaix (FR)

Start of the Cloud era, with new services offered including PrivateCloud, a disruptive private cloud offer which can be controlled directly on line. Design of a data center with record energy performances in Roubaix (RBX4).

Data Center Opening: Roubaix (FR)

Continued European development.

Office Openings: Netherlands, Ireland, Finland, Lithuania, the Czech Republic

OVH becomes a telephony operator, and will soon become an Internet access provider.

Office Openings: Italy, Portugal, United Kingdom

Data Center Opening: Roubaix (FR)

OVH deploys its own fiber optic network, starting with the Paris- Roubaix trunk.

Office Opening: Germany

Birth of “Roubaix Valley”, the company’s current HQ in the north of France.
OVH builds its first data center in Roubaix.

Data Center Opening: Roubaix (FR)

Foundations of the multi-local approach. First European subsidiaries in Poland and Spain.

Office Openings: Poland, Spain

Water cooling deployed in the new data center rented by OVH,a ground breaking and highly effective process on an industrial scale for cooling servers using water.

Start of “made in OVH” servers for economies of scale, to reduce delivery times and reduce dependence on suppliers.

First .fr and .be accreditations. Activity takes off.