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OVH is an Internet Service Provider providing dedicated servers, shared and cloud hosting, domain registration, and VOIP telephony services. The company is a simplified joint-stock company under French law and its headquarters are in Roubaix in northern France. The company has seventeen datacenters housing around 180,000 machines. The company offers localized services in France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain, Ireland, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Lithuania, and Finland. It has also expanded its services to the United States of America and Canada. The company has deployed IPv6 and DNSSEC.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Included Services - DNSSEC - Domain names - OVH )〕 == History == OVH was founded in 1999 by , at the time a third year student at the Institut catholique d'arts et métiers (ICAM) in Lille. In 2001, OVH rented 7 racks from Paris hosting provider Claranet. With its expansion, more room was needed and cooling became an issue, so OVH moved to an abandoned datacenter from Free, a French ISP. Shortly after, the server park reaches 1 200 machines. To keep up with the growing demand, OVH installed new servers. In 2002, another datacenter from Free was rented by OVH, who then bought its building for its first own datacenter in Paris. In 2006, OVH opened its first subsidiaries, beginning with Poland, Senegal and Spain. The volume of activity grows exponentially, from 6,000 to 12,000 servers, eventually revealing a lack of space. An opportunity arises in Roubaix, where OVH has its headquarters and technical teams but no datacenter. OVH built Roubaix 1 (RBX-1), its very first datacenter. In 2008 and 2009, RBX-2 and RBX-3 were built. Meanwhile, the subsidiaries multiplied abroad: Tunisia, Morocco, United-Kingdom, Ireland, Italy, Germany, Finland, Portugal, the Netherlands. OVH now has 15 branches in Europe and 2 in North Africa. Since 2010, OVH invested 10 million euros in cloud computing to offer new services. At the end of 2010, OVH launched "Dedicated Cloud", a brand new external cloud solution. It is now possible to deploy a virtual datacenter within an hour and add resources as needed. In 2011, OVH hosted 100,000 servers in its datacenters. The company brought innovation to its sector with the construction of a 100% air conditioning-free datacenter (RBX-4). Pursuing its innovative thrust, OVH achieves building in 2012 its first container-type datacenter in Strasbourg (SBG-1) to respond to the needs of its clients from Eastern Europe. In 2012, OVH continued its worldwide development and opened OVH, Inc. in the United States and Canada. In 2013, the OVH workforce reached 700 employees and launched in Gravelines (North of France) a datacenter with an overall capacity of 300 000 servers. The same year, OVH launches a VDSL Internet connexion, opened new offices in Brest (Bretagne), raised a 140 million dollar syndicated loan to support its investments and takes part with Atos in the "Cloud Plan" initiated by the French government. 2013 marks also the year of the first OVH Summit, an annual event inspired by the by IT shows in North America. In 2014, OVH celebrated its 15th anniversary, reaching 800 employees and hosting 180,000 servers in 17 data centers. The same year, the company launched .ovh, a new generic top-level domain (gTLD). .ovh was the first new French gTLD to be opened to the general public in such a way and over 50,000 new domain names were registered within the first five days of a promotion campaign for the launch. Two new brands have joined the OVH galaxy: So You Start, offering servers and dedicated infrastructure, and Runabove, a high performance Public Cloud solution. These two brands also work as labs where users can test brand new innovations. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「OVH」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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