Nutanix, VMware, bare metal, sovereignty, AI: all are growth drivers that feature prominently during OVHcloud Summit 2025 in Paris.
After the opening address by newly appointed CEO Octave Klaba, OVHcloud Summit 2025 immediately went in-depth. Yaniv Fdida, director product & technology, and Caroline Comet-Fraigneau, chief revenue officer, shared the stage with a recognizable message: cloud must simultaneously become more sovereign, safer and more usable, without forcing customers down a single path.
“Freedom lies in the fact that you can choose,” said Comet-Fraigneau, while positioning the role of OVHcloud as a European alternative alongside the American hyperscalers.
This freedom of choice translates into a portfolio that is explicitly hybrid: public cloud for scale, private cloud for control, and on-premises or edge variants for those who cannot move data or latency.
Anchor Point for Sovereignty
Sovereignty gets concrete implementation at OVHcloud through the SNC Cloud Platform line. SNC stands for SecNumCloud, the strict French ANSSI label for cloud platforms that meet high requirements around security, governance and data location. OVHcloud is already SecNumCloud-qualified with Bare Metal Pod and is now extending this line to a broader offering.
Early 2026 brings IaaS building blocks to the SecNumCloud stack: VM instances, dedicated servers, block storage and object storage. Phase two follows by the end of 2026 with services like managed Kubernetes, advanced network, managed databases and AI services.
“The goal is for organizations with sensitive workloads to get the same cloud experience as in public cloud, but within a certified, European framework,” says Fdida.
Wherever you are, you must be able to manage your infrastructure efficiently and automatically, with modularity.
Yaniv Fdida, Director Product and Technology, OVHcloud
That same experience must also be portable. He linked the SecNumCloud roadmap to the On-Prem Cloud Platform (OPCP), a stack that can run at customers or at the edge and is
“Wherever you are, you must be able to manage your infrastructure efficiently and automatically, with modularity,” states Fdida.
More Security down to Bare Metal
Security today is more than a compliance story. OVHcloud promises tangible improvements down to the lowest level. Dedicated servers get additional security features like encryption of data at rest, firmware version management and private boot capabilities.
For IT teams that still run a lot of bare metal, there’s also a Backup Agent with support for filesystems and applications, policy-driven backups and standard replication to a remote region.
At the network level, DDoS protection evolves to an adaptive model: first learn normal traffic behavior, then refine protection and only mitigate when an attack actually occurs. OVHcloud promises fewer false positives and less impact on legitimate traffic.
VMware and Nutanix as Private Cloud Pillars
For European enterprise environments, private cloud remains an essential part of hybrid architectures. OVHcloud plays on two ecosystems simultaneously.
For VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), there’s first an Advanced Pack with Public VCF as-a-Service on shared infrastructure. Shortly after follows Managed VMware vSphere / Private VCF aaS on dedicated infrastructure with three availability zones and stretched clusters for mission-critical workloads. A fully dedicated VCF offering is planned for 2026.
Nutanix also gets its own roadmap within OVHcloud: up to 32 nodes per cluster, snapshots to Object Storage and new regions. The French provider also links this to its sovereignty approach: Nutanix-qualified servers are provided within the SecNumCloud environment.
AI and Dev Tooling
Fdida emphasizes that the roadmap doesn’t only focus on infrastructure. “Everything we do around experience, we also deploy for developers.”
Specifically, OVHcloud expands dev tooling with an improved CLI, Cloud Shell, the AI assistant SHAI and MCP servers (Model Context Protocol) to make integrations with popular ecosystems easier. OVHcloud also announced during Summit 2025 that it will collaborate with SambaNova to deliver AI inferencing with very low latency, aimed at applications where speed and reliability are crucial.
OVHcloud expands its GPU portfolio with new Nvidia generations, including Nvidia Blackwell B200/B300 clusters.
Yaniv Fdida, Director Product and Technology, OVHcloud
AI also gets a remarkably concrete roadmap. “OVHcloud expands its GPU portfolio with new Nvidia generations, including Nvidia Blackwell B200/B300 clusters. This hardware forms the basis for new LLM offerings, additional ecosystem integrations and more inference choices.”
On the service side, new AI endpoints are coming: a Base API for development inference is available, a low-latency Fast API follows quickly, and a Batch API for bulk inference is also on the short-term planning.
Cost Control via FOCUS Standard
Finally, there was surprisingly frequent discussion about governance and costs. OVHcloud offers additional options for IAM, observability, policy enforcement and SIEM integration. The European cloud provider also doesn’t forget the cost picture and adopts the FOCUS standard (FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification). This allows you to more easily export and analyze usage data.
“We integrate finance tools to better understand your costs through a normalized billing plan called FOCUS,” according to Fdida.
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More Choice, more European
With SecNumCloud as security anchor, OPCP for on-premises and edge, and solid upgrades for storage, private cloud and AI, OVHcloud puts a broad but coherent roadmap on the table. The underlying line is freedom of choice within a European framework. Or as Comet-Fraigneau summarizes it: “Cloud must allow customers to choose their own route, without compromising on security or performance.”
We note that OVHcloud makes its ‘European alternative’ position more concrete. Not with one big flagship product, but with a set of building blocks that acknowledges the hybrid reality: VCF and Nutanix as migration paths for existing data centers and an on-premises platform that promises the same landing zone governance as public cloud.
Cloud must allow customers to choose their own route, without compromising on security or performance.
Caroline Comet-Fraigneau, Chief Revenue Officer, OVHcloud
At the same time, the AI roadmap shows that OVHcloud doesn’t want to limit itself to just infrastructure. It wants to pull AI as a standard layer throughout the portfolio: from new GPU generations to inference APIs and developer tooling with SHAI and MCP servers.
Finally, everything from OVHcloud means more choice without hard lock-in. “You can modernize at your own pace, move workloads when necessary, and deploy AI projects in Europe without redesigning your entire stack,” says Fdida. “We position ourselves as a provider that doesn’t impose one ‘correct’ cloud vision, but offers a roadmap where organizations can draw their own path.”
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