OVH fundamentals

OVH Groupe SAS engages in the development and provision of cloud solutions and services. It operates through the following segments: Private Cloud, Public Cloud, and Webcloud and Other. The Private Cloud segment offers services and solutions that are hosted on resources dedicated to customers. It includes Baremetal and Hosted Private Cloud. The Public Cloud segment is involved in the cloud solutions that are billed per use, based on open standards OpenStack, Kubernetes. Resources, such as computing power or storage, as well as the physical infrastructure that provides them, are pooled, meaning they are shared between the users of the cloud services provider, and are flexible, meaning adaptable to customer needs and instantly deployable on a large scale. The Webcloud and Other segment focuses on the peripheral solutions allowing the creation and hosting of online websites such as the search and renewal of domain names, the creation of a site or an online store. The company was founded by Octave Klaba in 1999 and is headquartered in Roubaix, France.