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Empower your players to host their own servers, fostering a vibrant community while you reduce server costs. Player-owned servers boost engagement, offer customization, and enhance reliability, all ensuring your game thrives long into the future.

Explore how OVHcloud’s Local Zones leverage edge computing to minimize latency, enhance application performance, and support cost-effective expansion into new markets, giving businesses a competitive advantage and fostering digital transformation.

Grid computing leverages distributed computing to tackle complex problems efficiently. By pooling resources like processing power, memory, and storage across multiple computers, it supports computationally intensive applications in scientific research, financial services, healthcare, energy, manufacturing, and entertainment.

The global gaming market, valued at $173.70 billion in 2020, is projected to reach $314.40 billion by 2026, driven by billions of players and thousands of new game releases monthly. Cloud computing is revolutionizing game development and distribution.

Explore how edge computing and OVHcloud’s Local Zones help international businesses meet data residency requirements, enhance cloud architectures, and comply with local regulations, providing a secure and efficient data management solution in an increasingly regulated environment.

Adopting cloud-native computing is essential for agility, innovation, and cost-efficiency. Overcome traditional IT barriers and ensure resilience, scalability, and operational excellence to maintain your competitive edge.

Deciding on the ideal blockchain infrastructure setup requires understanding critical variables to ensure cost efficiency and management flexibility. Factors include infrastructure strategy, financial considerations like OpEx vs. CapEx, and provider transparency regarding data traffic fees.

The world has become increasingly dependent on data, and the wide-scale transition from on-site storage to cloud-based solutions represents and incredible opportunity for our industry to lead the way in helping all companies make progress towards sustainability.

Experience cloud management as it's meant to be with Nutanix on OVHcloud. Seamlessly integrate on-prem data centers and public clouds, all under one user-friendly platform. Discover how Nutanix is tailored to the complexities of today's multicloud world.

Hybrid and multicloud solutions are on the rise. Discover how many organizations are gaining greater control over their infrastrcture, optimizing costs, and so much more by choosing hybrid and multicloud solutions.

Discover how OVHcloud is helping customers meet sustainability requirements by implementing short-, medium-, and long-term data center sustainability strategies across their data centers globally to become a zero-waste facility by 2025 and NetZero by 2030.

Discover how to achieve infrastructure resilience for business continuity and disaster recovery. This article explores distributed data protection (DDP), the 3-2-1 rule for disaster recovery and DDP barriers, as well as offers solutions like vRack for achieving distributed data protection.

Mistakes, like not fully backing up your data or overspending, can make migrating to the cloud more difficult than it really is. Investing in the right tools and finding the right cloud provider that offers competitive pricing can make migrating to the cloud a hassle-free process.

The long-term benefits include better performance, scalability, improved backup and on-site expertise. But there are some short-term challenges. Outsourcing isn’t as easy as choosing a provider and not all projects are created equal.

Choose private virtual local area networking with vRack to protect your company from nefarious actors and enjoy many other business-critical advantages. Using prebuilt solutions will allow you to do so without complex networking.

Data center extension and migration with VMware virtual machines can eliminate the risk of obsolescence. You enjoy the benefit of the latest hardware and software while you retain full control over your IT infrastructure and data.

Outsourcing IT infrastructure improves performance and service but consider cash flow and value over upfront costs. Better performance improves user experience and encourages traffic, and faster load times benefit sales and engagement.

Discover this agile, flexible approach to navigating multicloud security that enables you to choose multiple cloud services from various providers, and optimize performance, scalability, security, expertise, cost savings and more.

Kubernetes is quickly becoming the most popular container orchestration platform in the world. It uses microservices and serverless architecture to form a cloud-native approach, giving developers the cloud-native capabilities they need.

Take a look at the many benefits of Software Defined Storage. SDS is an alternative to traditional storage architectures. As a software-based approach, SDS is designed to be a high-performance and optimized platform.

Gain a competitive edge with a hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI). Driven by flexible, high-performance bare metal servers, an HCI offers increased simplicity, scalability, efficiency and performance and a healthier bottom line.

Now is the time to take a close look at your disaster recovery and business continuity plans. Disasters can cause financial and productivity losses, sales and operation disruptions, damage your brand and reputation and so much more.

Not all storage is the same. This expert overview of storage technologies will help you determine the best option depending on the kind of data, the amount, how often it needs to be accessed, and how you want it to be accessed.

This guide to the pros and cons of virtual private servers and dedicated servers will help you choose. Both provide dedicated resources, robust bandwidth, high-level scalability, maximum uptime and no latency, but there are differences.

Learn more about the key benefits of a future-proof Hosted Private Cloud (HPC), including decreased capital and operational expenses, no hidden costs, VMware-enhanced safety measures and hassle-free VM migration.

A bare metal virtual data center can be the solution for moving forward. Transforming legacy systems and incorporating disruptive technologies such as big data and artificial intelligence are necessary steps for digital transformation.

Private cloud has many benefits but presents its own set of challenges, including added security breaches, DDoS attacks, physical security and redundancy, compliance concerns, performance issues and capacity overbuying.

Choose virtualization, containerization and orchestration with VMware to streamline how you store, access and run software apps and programs to reduce costs and improve efficiency. Learn about these methods and changes required.

Cloud Spectator tested different providers’ bare metal configurations to see how our servers stack up in terms of performance and price against other similarly sized offerings using a standardized, repeatable testing methodology.

OVHcloud® is at the forefront of the data revolution, standing apart from the competition with a strong commitment to creating a level playing field and the opportunity for any business to leverage the digital transformation.

Read the five ways an alternative cloud services provider can give you the reach of a hyperscaler, the flexibility of a challenger, significant savings and performance gains with truly global cloud services and no vendor lock-in.