How OVH Groupe changed with its market

OVH was founded in France in 1999 by Octave Klaba, initially offering web-hosting services during the rapid expansion of the commercial internet.

How OVH Groupe developed

The company invested heavily in owning and designing its infrastructure, including data centres, servers and cooling systems, and broadened from hosting into private and public cloud services. The OVHcloud brand reflected that wider strategy, and the group listed in Paris in 2021.

OVH Groupe in 2026

By 2026, OVHcloud operated dozens of data centres and provided hosting, bare-metal servers, private cloud, public cloud and related infrastructure services internationally.

Why the history matters

OVHcloud is significant as a large European-owned cloud and hosting provider in a market dominated globally by US hyperscalers, with data sovereignty and regional infrastructure forming part of its competitive context.