European cloud and data center firm OVH is launching a new cloud region in Italy and has expanded its local cloud Edge offerings.
The company has also debuted a new isolated bare metal pod offering, available in its facilities or on-premise, and announced plans for a quantum cloud offering.
The updates were announced as part of the OVHcloud Summit event in Paris last week.
OVH said it was also looking at five additional availability zone regions in Europe, North America, and Asia-Pacific. Further details weren’t shared.
“Our roadmap for 2025 focuses on making new public cloud products available, consolidating our private cloud offering, and making further investments in our sovereign products,” said Benjamin Revcolevschi, OVHcloud CEO.
OVH enters Italy, plans Milan cloud region
OVH is entering Italy and planning a new cloud region outside Milan.
“The group is continuing to invest in the roll-out of the first 3-AZ region outside of France, with the Milan 3-AZ region scheduled for completion by the end of 2025,” the company said. “It will host a product mix incorporating the IaaS and PaaS offerings of the OVHcloud Public Cloud (Compute, Storage, DBaaS, Managed Kubernetes, Managed Rancher, etc.) with an increased level of resilience.”
Details of the data centers set to house the new region weren’t shared. OVH founder Octave Klaba hinted at a new Italian location in a LinkedIn post last month, posting a picture of an existing data center and saying it would ping soon.
While Klaba didn’t provide more details, commentators on the post suggested it was a facility located at 27010 Inverno e Monteleone in Pavia, to the southeast of Milan.
The site’s Google Maps listing has recently changed from DXC to OVHcloud. The site was previously operated by DXC, with other online listings suggesting it was operated by HP and EDS before that.
It’s unclear when DCX exited the facility, and if OVH has acquired the site or is leasing.
DCD has reached out to the company for more information.
DXC Technology was founded in 2017 after HPE merged its enterprise services business with Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC). In 2019, DXC Technology said it had "43 owned or leased sites globally, in addition to over 250 managed colo locations."
However, last year DXC said it would move around 1,000 of its largest IT outsourcing customers to Amazon Web Services (AWS), selecting AWS as its primary cloud provider as it looked to divest some of its data centers.
DXC facilities have since been sold or put up for sale in Lyon and Grenoble, France; Detroit, Michigan; Houston, Texas; Juarez, Mexico; and São Paulo, Brazil.
OVH has more than 30 data centers in operation and under construction in France, Canada, the US, Australia, Germany, Poland, Singapore, India, and the UK. These are a mix of self-built and leased locations.
OVH expands Local Zone locations
OVH has also been expanding its Local Zone Edge offerings. Announced last year and powered by technology acquired from Gridscale, the company has now rolled out more than a dozen locations this year.
“Since the first deployments in spring 2024, 16 Local Zones are now available, with access to Object Storage recently added. By August 2025, the group aims to open a total of 42 Local Zones, and a roadmap which includes approximately a hundred Local Zones across the world within the next two years.”
After launching the service in Europe earlier this year, OVH has now launched multiple Local Zones in the US – including New York, Chicago, Atlanta, Denver, Miami, Palo Alto, and Los Angeles – and opened a previously announced zone in Rabat, Morocco, in partnership with Maroc DC.
OVH offers dedicated bare metal pods and On-Prem Cloud Platform
The company also recently announced its Bare Metal Pod offering; a physically and logically-isolated bare metal rack offering.
The service is available within dedicated space within OVHcloud data centers in France that can scale from eight servers – up to 5,000 servers in the future.
It can also be deployed in customer data centers.
The commercial Bare Metal Pod offering, available at the end of 2024, will debut with configurations starting from eight servers in a half-rack, to 480 servers in ten racks,
The AIFE (Agence pour l’Informatique Financière de l’Etat), a government agency with national authority attached to the French Ministry of the Economy and Finance, is the first confirmed customer using Bare Metal Pod.
The company’s existing bare metal instances have also been updated. Its bare metal servers now offer AMD Epyc 4004 CPUs – with AMD Ryzen 9000 chips available in the coming months.
OVH also announced the On-Prem Cloud Platform (OPCP), a new on-premise rack to bring OVH's cloud platform into customer data centers.
The service is reportedly available up to 50 racks, according to the company's website, each offering up to 47U.
"Everything is available in connected or disconnected mode, allowing organizations absolute control over their data, serving the most specific use cases, either in customers' data centers or at the Edge," the company said.
OVH offers more GPUs and a quantum cloud
The company also confirmed that AMD Instinct MI325X GPUs would be available through its cloud offering within the next three months. The Nvidia H200 NVL platform will also soon be available as a Public Cloud instance along with Blackwell GPUs available in PoD.
On the quantum side, OVH said it has six quantum emulators available on its platform through Alice&Bob, C12, Eviden, Pasqal, Quandela, and Qiskit.
The company has announced the launch of its quantum cloud service, that will allow customers to execute quantum calculation on real quantum computers, rather than simulators.
Pasqal will be the first quantum computer joining the Quantum Cloud in 2025, offering access to a 100-qubit system. By 2027, up to six quantum computers will be part of OVH’s Quantum Cloud platform.
