OVHcloud targets public cloud skeptics with new hosted private cloud offer

OVHcloud says it's directly addressing the demands of European companies who remain highly sensitive to data sovereignty with its new Hosted Private Cloud Premier offering.

The France-headquartered hyperscaler giant is now targeting resellers who have customers that are uncomfortable with how much access the big cloud giants, of the likes of AWS, Azure and Alibaba, have over their data.

OVHcloud says it's kept "security, isolation and location" of customer data top of mind when designing the new suite.

"With Hosted Private Cloud Premier in their portfolio, partners can offer their customers better choices. This is vital for resellers who also act as trusted advisors. It allows them to remain agnostic while guiding customers on their journey towards a software defined datacentre (SDDC) with a multi-cloud offering," the company said in a statement.

OVHcloud CEO Michel Paulin has told CPI that he wants European resellers and end users to see the company as the continent's "trustworthy" cloud provider.

He highlighted that its network of 19 datacentres are all in Europe, which isolates it from the US Cloud Act passed in 2018.

The legislation controversially gives US authorities the right to have greater access to company and customer data under law-enforcement guidelines.

Indeed, several European resellers have since told CPI of their customer's concerns over the Act, influencing their portfolios.

Among its 800 certified partners, OVHcloud recognises that some of its system integrators and VARs are also "experiencing a gap in their cloud vendor portfolio" because of this end user wariness, with customers requesting datacentre solutions that allow them to retain control over their own data.

"Hosted Private Cloud Premier enables partners to fulfil this crucial requirement," said OVHcloud CEO Michel Paulin.

The offering is now available to OVHcloud customers around the world.

In addition to its 19 datacentres in Europe, OVHcloud also has operations in Singapore and Canada.

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