 Morning Hello, Alan. Welcome to the open stack summit. Thank you. This is your first open stack. No first as of age I've been here before perfect so being French I happen to know a lot about OVH and That might not be the case of everyone in the audience So could you give us a quick introduction at what of each year? Sure? So VH is a company that was funded in 1999 by Octav Krabar. You may have heard the name of the of the man We've been going on it started as a web hosting company and then now we turn into a much broader cloud Infrastructure company we essentially do Bermett on which we're going to turn into Bermett all cloud very very soon By the way private cloud and public cloud is kind of the bulk of what we do We are deployed throughout the world really I was looking at some of the earlier numbers, you know 75 data centers with open clouds You know public cloud on open stack well 28 of them with OVH Maybe not quite because not all of them do run open stack public cloud But kind of give you an idea of the scale of the infrastructure. We have our own Network, which is you know huge 15 terabits of capacity and growing on an ongoing basis and essentially We have in those 28 data centers we have about 360,000 servers up and running serving customers today and again This is something that is growing in an order, you know in the thousands almost every week Last but not least about 1.4 million customers throughout the world. We're selling into 138 countries if I remember correctly So really a global operations that is headquarter in France But also have subsidiaries in in the US and North America and Asia pack So where is open stack used in all that pretty much everywhere, right? So we use open stack obviously to deliver public cloud services We have about a 260,000 instances up and running at any point in time 150 petabytes of storage. I mean that kind of give you an idea of the magnitude But effectively we're using open stack really as an abstraction layer for everything that runs underneath We had the of each summit Pretty much the same size as here a few weeks ago in Paris. You were with us on stage And basically we announced a few new products. I mean including a managed Kubernetes For example that runs on open stack infrastructure. We announced, you know data lakes Hadoop clusters managed on top of open stack infrastructure and so on and so forth So we're really using open stack as an abstraction layer and we're going to do that more and more so in the future So I've had the chance to visit the Noviage data center and it felt very different from other data centers I've had the chance to visit. So what makes of each different? Yeah, there are different indeed. I must admit that when I joined OVH that was one of my You know kind of Estonishment as well Something that make us very very different is that we do build our own servers We have two factories one in north of France one in Canada And with those factories we're building the servers and when I mean we build the servers we we goes from sheet metal all the way up to selling open stack services And and anything above that As you can see on the video we we building the in assembling the data set the servers But also the racking systems and that's one of the thing that differentiates us quite a bit because The reason why we do this is because we are cooling our servers with water And we've been doing that for over 15 years, which at the time was complete first And we do that at massive scale And this is allowing us to have a very very lean and cost-effective operations Every single CPU in OVH has a little water block on it and is cooled by water And by doing that we have 98% of the data center rooms or air cooling free Which make it quite different indeed as you can see on the video of this This is how the data center looks like OVH. Yeah, I can really see how The open infrastructure idea resonates really well with OVH hacker culture and Can you tell us a bit more about OVH view on open source and open infrastructure? Yeah, so So this is one octave club I saying about OVH, right? This is our motto is actually innovation for freedom and the thing that is very important in this is of course We want to innovate everybody wants to innovate. We want to differentiate ourselves Relying on open stack and open source infrastructure is enabling us to do that faster than anybody else Or at least faster than people are not relying on open source infrastructure That's one thing but the other thing that is very important to OVH is We we are very big on transparency and reversibility We don't want to make customers captive of our own services We build everything for customers to be able to Come in and come out if they want to do so right move data in move data out for example We don't charge on ingress or egress bandwidth at all right and because that's a big impediment for moving data in and out So for us open source is very much part of that reversibility mechanisms You want to take your workflows and your data from an open source environment in our cloud into your own cloud or into another cloud You are absolutely free to do so and this is enabling that Customer freedom and data movements and workflow movements So you gave a lot of big numbers earlier and but it's a bit abstract Could you give us a better idea of what's happening on a day-to-day business within? Yeah, so so we when you ask that question and say well How can I represent what we do on a day-to-day basis? So I said well, let's take a month right and give you an idea of what we've been doing over a month So that's the month of October right in the month of October. We basically prepared and deployed three new open stack regions in North America in Vintil and not sorry in On the west coast that the center that we have we did the same thing in Asia pack in Singapore and Sydney so we did that thanks to the You know deployment automation based on pop it We know able once the infrastructure is up and running right then you can the servers or provision and everything is ready It takes us four hours to activate a new region Right and by the way new regions at OVH something that people should know as well is that this is also our way of scaling So we have regions with 1500 each servers per region and once you we get to that capacity limit we basically Deploy new regions. So that's the reason why we have 24 worldwide I Said four hours, sorry. It's eight hours. What takes us four hours is what we did in the same month. We've actually updated 22 of our 24 regions from an old version of open stack We were running Juno until recently we moved everything to Newton So we are just two regions away from having the entire infrastructure upgraded to Newton that Upgrade was actually massive amount of work as you can imagine It took us a while to do all the R&D around it and automated But now we are able to do that in four hours and we have to to understand that some of these regions have over 50,000 instances and we do that with no downtime no customers impact not nothing We do that overnight. That's what we do while you sleep It takes four hours to upgrade the region from Juno to Newton The good news as well is that among those 22 that we've already upgraded to Newton We've already started migrating some to Queens. So this is now that we are on to these newer versions It's a lot easier to to do the ongoing upgrades, which We're trying to gonna be no more than three versions behind the upstream. That's the goal All right What did we do? Well, we actually produce a few new flavors and one of them is actually a GPU flavor So if you go on OVH open stack public cloud, you can actually now consume GPU flavors based on Tesla the last generation of NVIDIA with the NGC, which is the NVIDIA path for managing managing your data and your AI and Soon your machine learning as well and we decided to do that with the the PCI path through mechanisms so that customers can have access to the full Performance and capacity of the of the GPUs What else? We have one of our big customers actually the European Spatial Agency more specifically a project called Copernicus. I don't know if you heard of it But it's basically a Number of satellites around the earth that are monitoring the health of the earth taking photos you know and other things and Streaming 1.5 gigabits of bandwidth constantly Last month we've actually added two petabytes of data to our storage infrastructure just for that one project This means that every month we have to install a thousand three hundred discs Just for that one customer. Can I give you an idea of the magnitude of the of the project, right? That's also what happened over a month in October and last but not least That's the number of instances that was found in a month Which basically if you do the math we have 260,000 instances up and running at any point in time that means that every month you reset all of them every week That's the the the what's happening in the in the OVH public cloud in a month Yeah, that sounds like a busy month. Actually, you had your summit in the same month So what are your future plans? Is there any a new open stack component? I can see the slide is kind of Yeah, some of you may recognize the Icons deploy at scale. Yeah future So so a few things first of all it I first want to thank you all you guys for for what you've done because we wouldn't be Where we are today without the open stack community delivering all these projects with the quality of the code that we have one of the bigger contribution to the community is basically that we testing at Pretty big scale as you can see and and that I believe is is a good contribution back to the community Moving forward. There are a few things that we absolutely want to do the first one is I Did kind of spill the beans already? We are going to make our bare metal offering which is by for the largest business of OVH A bare metal cloud so we are going to enable ironic so that people can consume our bare metal servers through the open stack APIs and Moving forward. We also as I mentioned, you know open stack becoming really the de facto under cloud abstraction layer for us We are actually about to launch a number of data cloud databases services Love balancing HSN for storing your keys using barbicans, and there are a few more projects like this going on. So there are about 3035 OVH engineers you will recognize them because they have a fantastic red Woody and Talk to them, right? I'm sure they're gonna have a lot of feedback to provide you in terms of the technology and way provides and Again, I want to thanks everyone in this room for all the great work that you've been doing over the the last years Well, I was a all great insight. I feel like we're out of time unfortunately So is there anything else you wanted to add to? No, I think I I said it all Thanks again, and keep keep going with doubling down on the unopened stack as A public cloud and an abstraction layer, and we have every intention to continue to grow that way. Thank you Thank you, Alan You