Maximum data security with European cloud provider OVHcloud

We are switching to the European cloud alternative for the efficient and secure operation of modern e-commerce environments

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Security, sustainability, and progress are what make this solution a game-changer for us.

We place a particular focus on developing and delivering customized e-commerce solutions for our customers. Your journey with us can begin with consulting on the strategic implementation of a digital sales platform. We optimize this “creation” for your business model at the “human-machine interface” to ensure a unique user experience. What we’ve advised on, developed together, and refined, we can then implement and subsequently operate.

To set up and host our clients’ e-commerce environments, community platforms, and CMS systems—which vary greatly in scope and nature—as securely and efficiently as possible, we need an appropriate cloud platform. In particular, this platform must be quickly and easily scalable to accommodate even volatile traffic on client platforms at any time without compromising performance.

We place a special focus on developing and delivering customized e-commerce solutions for our clients. Your journey with us can begin with consulting on the strategic implementation of a digital sales platform. We optimize this “creation” for your business model at the “human-machine interface” to ensure a unique user experience. What we have advised on, developed together, and refined, we can then implement and subsequently operate.

Thanks to OVHcloud, we can develop and deploy our clients’ digital platforms in accordance with the highest security and data protection standards.

Until now, we have primarily used cloud solutions from major U.S. providers. However, over time, we have increasingly identified drawbacks in terms of usability as well as data protection and GDPR compliance.

With our previous cloud provider, we were able to run our existing applications in a cluster; therefore, our technical requirement was to migrate them to a new, OpenStack-based cloud platform without compromising performance. In addition, we wanted to increasingly rely on container orchestration via Kubernetes for applications belonging to smaller customers in order to further optimize their deployment, resilience, and scalability.

We’re pleased to have found an optimal cloud solution in OVHcloud’s Public Cloud that meets all our requirements.

Another key criterion for choosing OVHcloud’s new cloud platform was the integration of Kubernetes to automate the deployment, scaling, and management of applications within the cluster. When it comes to Kubernetes, OVHcloud has so far outperformed the competition.

Technically, OVHcloud’s solution is on par with U.S. providers, yet it offers our customers protection against DDoS attacks for Layers 4 through 7, the highest level of security, and the assurance that all of our data and that of our customers is securely stored in European data centers that are fully GDPR-compliant.

With the OVHcloud Public Cloud we now have a private layer 2 network spanning multiple locations, allowing loads to be distributed flexibly without compromising on security and reliability. We also have the certainty that our data and that of our customers is held securely in European, fully GDPR-compliant data centres.

Last but not least, OVHcloud scored points with us as a “green” company that attaches importance to running its data centres in a climate-neutral way and builds its own energy-efficient servers. Sustainability has long since stopped being just a “nice to have”. Among the five highest-quality offerings we looked at more closely at the end of our selection process, this criterion was ultimately the icing on the cake.

To avoid any risk to the reliability of our services, we initially migrated only a few selected production and test systems to the new environment in order to familiarise ourselves with the OVHcloud Public Cloud during this “settling-in phase”. The results of this first phase confirmed that we had chosen the right partner in OVHcloud.

The core objective – reducing costs – was fully achieved: operating costs were halved by migrating to OVHcloud. This puts us in a position to provide our customers with an offering that is as attractive as it is profitable.

The switch to OVHcloud also proved to be a step forward in terms of user-friendliness. Configuring and maintaining the load balancers that distribute traffic turned out to be considerably easier with OVHcloud than with previous cloud providers. This pays off particularly at times of peak load in e-commerce – for example on Black Friday or during the Christmas season – because short-term peaks can be absorbed better with larger buffers. In addition, the 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 performed vulnerability analyses provide extra security in container management. Providing static IP addresses is also considerably easier with the OVHcloud Public Cloud than before.

Based on our positive experience with OVHcloud, we plan to gradually migrate about two additional customers per quarter to the new OVHcloud environment in the near future, with the goal of operating 40 customer environments in a single cluster. This puts us in a better position than ever to successfully drive our customers’ digital transformation and enhance their customer experience.

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