OVHcloud has announced the acquisition of the French company OpenIO in order to strengthen its Storage Object offering. The two entities want to work on a European alternative by focusing on their common values including reversibility, transparency and sovereignty.

In just a few years, OpenIO has distinguished itself by designing the next generation of S3-compatible object storage solutions, the best suited for Big Data and High Performance Computing workloads. As such, they are ideal for storing the large amounts of data required for machine learning and artificial intelligence applications.

The entire staff of OpenIO will complement the OVHcloud teams, in Roubaix, Paris, but also internationally.

Leveraging complementarities to create the best Object Storage offering on the market for both public and private clouds.

OpenIO now offers a software solution that is independent of the hardware infrastructure and can address a multiplicity of use cases within the same cluster. In addition to its record-breaking performance, the technology developed by OpenIO offers infinite scalability, which does not involve rebuilding data when adding resources to the platform.

The combination of the rich functionality and performance of OpenIO technology with the industry and cloud infrastructure expertise of OVHcloud is promising. It will enable the design of a very large-scale object storage offering at the best price/performance ratio. This alliance will enable OVHcloud to meet the technological challenges of both large companies and startups.

“The global volume of data doubles every 18 months[2], we are aware that storage issues are at the heart of the concerns of our 1.5 million customers. With the acquisition of OpenIO, we aim to create a highly scalable offering with the best infrastructure and at one of the most attractive prices on the market. “says Michel Paulin, CEO of OVHcloud.

Common values to build a European alternative

The complementarity of OpenIO and OVHcloud is also based on a system of common values: reversibility, transparency, sovereignty are at the heart of the DNA of these companies now united in a single team.

The two companies also share a similar technological culture, committed to open source, sharing the same development methods and, above all, the same passion for innovative projects.

As long-time partners, the OpenIO and OVHcloud teams have contributed significantly to the development of the Swift open source project, which offers an object storage solution integrated with the Openstack foundation.

“The set of technologies used to build our Object Storage solutions are and will continue to be open-sourced, it is a common value that is essential to OVHcloud and OpenIO Plus and will be extended and enriched by our combined talents. “added Laurent Denel, founder of OpenIO.

Translated from Stockage Objet du marché : OVHcloud fait l’acquisition d’OpenIO