OVH launches hosted private cloud service based on VMware Cloud Foundation

OVHcloud, a subsidiary of European hosting giant OVH, has launched a hosted private cloud service based on software from VMware. The product with a lengthy name of ‘VMware Cloud Foundation on OVHcloud’ offers customers a minimum of four dedicated servers and can scale to support thousands of virtual machines.It integrates the latest VMware Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) tools, including vSphere for compute, vSAN for storage and NSX for networking.The move follows the deal that saw OVH acquire vCloud Air, a public cloud business developed by VMware and based on its technology, in April 2017. Paris-based OVH is one of Europe’s largest hosting providers, with a global network consisting of 28 data centers, 33 points of presence, and thousands of miles of dark fiber.The recent acquisition of vCloud Air enabled the company to enter the US market, where it now operates two data centers - in Virginia and Oregon.