Highest data security through the European cloud provider OVHcloud
We are switching to the European cloud alternative for the efficient and secure operation of modern e-commerce environments
Security, sustainability, and progress make the solution a winning combination for us.
Our focus is particularly on the development and provision of customized e-commerce solutions for our customers. The journey with us can begin with consulting for the strategic implementation of a digital sales platform. We optimize this "creation" for the business model at the "human-machine interface" so that user experiences are unique. What we have advised, collaboratively developed, and refined, we can then implement and later operate.
In order to set up and host our customers' very diverse e-commerce environments, community platforms, and CMS systems as securely and efficiently as possible, we need a suitable cloud platform. This must be particularly fast and easy to scale in order to cover a volatile usage of customer platforms at any time without performance losses.
Our focus is particularly on the development and provision of customized e-commerce solutions for our customers. The journey with us can begin with consulting for the strategic implementation of a digital sales platform. We optimize this "creation" for the business model at the "human-machine interface" so that user experiences are unique. What we have advised, collaboratively developed, and refined, we can then implement and later operate.
In order to set up and host our customers' very diverse e-commerce environments, community platforms, and CMS systems as securely and efficiently as possible, we need a suitable cloud platform. This must be particularly fast and easy to scale in order to cover a volatile usage of customer platforms at any time without performance losses.
Thanks to OVHcloud, we can develop and provide our customers' digital platforms with the highest security and privacy standards.
Up until now, we primarily used cloud solutions from major US providers. However, over time, we increasingly perceived disadvantages in terms of usability as well as data protection and GDPR compliance.
With our old cloud provider, we could operate our existing applications in a cluster, so our technical requirement was to transfer them to a new, OpenStack-based cloud platform without performance losses. Furthermore, we wanted to increasingly rely on container orchestration via Kubernetes for smaller customer applications to further optimize their deployment, resilience, and scalability.
We are pleased to have found an optimal cloud solution with the OVHcloud Public Cloud that meets all our requirements.
Another decisive criterion for the new OVHcloud cloud platform was also the integration of Kubernetes for the automation of deployment, scaling, and management of applications within the cluster. In terms of Kubernetes, OVHcloud is superior to the competition so far.
Technically, the OVHcloud solution is on par with US providers, but it offers our customers protection against DDoS attacks for layers 4 to 7, the highest level of security, and the assurance that all our data and that of our customers is securely housed in European and fully GDPR-compliant data centers.
With the OVHcloud Public Cloud, we now have a cross-site private layer 2 network over which loads can be distributed flexibly and without compromises in security and reliability. Additionally, we now have the assurance that our data and that of our customers are securely housed in European and fully GDPR-compliant data centers.
Last but not least, OVHcloud also scored points with us as a "green" company that values the climate-neutral operation of its data centers and builds its own energy-efficient servers. Sustainability is no longer just a "nice to have." Among the top five offers we looked at closely at the end of our selection process, this criterion was ultimately the icing on the cake.
To avoid taking any risks with the reliability of our services, we initially migrated only a few selected production and test systems to the new environment to familiarize ourselves with the OVHcloud Public Cloud during this "acclimatization phase." The results of this first phase confirmed to us that we chose the right partner with OVHcloud.
The core goal – cost reduction – was fully achieved as operating costs were halved through the migration to OVHcloud. This enables us to offer our customers an equally attractive and profitable offer.
In terms of user-friendliness, the switch to OVHcloud also proved to be a step forward. The configuration and maintenance of load balancers for traffic load distribution with OVHcloud turned out to be significantly easier than with previous cloud providers. This pays off during peak times in e-commerce – such as Black Friday or the Christmas business – by better compensating short-term peaks with larger buffers. Furthermore, node pools within Kubernetes are easier to manage, and the Docker Registry also has a Helm Registry, which was not the case with the previous provider. Automatically conducted vulnerability analyses provide additional security in container management. Also, the provision of static IP addresses is significantly easier with the OVHcloud Public Cloud than before.
Based on the positive experiences with OVHcloud, we plan to gradually migrate around two more customers per quarter into the new OVHcloud environment in the near future with the target scenario of operating 40 customer environments in a cluster. This positions us better than ever to successfully advance the digitization and customer experience of our clients.
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