Highlights:

  • OVHcloud and EXTEN Technologies merged to enhance the cloud storage platform.
  • EXTEN Technologies, Inc. is a US-based storage software firm focusing on NVMe over Fabrics.
  • The major aim behind the acquisition is to provide its clients with the finest price/performance block storage solution in the industry.
  • OVHcloud has proven its desire to offer the best and outstanding storage offering to its consumers.

OVHcloud, an international cloud leader and the major European cloud supplier, recently declared that it has purchased the technology of EXTEN Technologies, Inc. EXTEN Technologies is a US-based storage software firm focusing on NVMe over Fabrics.

The key aim of OVHcloud, behind the acquisition, is to provide its clients with the finest price/performance block storage solution in the market. EXTEN, centered in Austin, Texas, is a technology inventor leader and has been an innovator in NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe-oF) storage software with around 20 filed patents. NVMe Over Fabrics is the new storage paradigm; thus, EXTEN Technologies is leading the transformation.

An excellent disaggregated storage platform is offered by EXTEN, which is a substitute for local NVMe that runs with variable shared pools of fault-tolerant capability, without compromising on performance. Thus, this permits operations and deployments for performance-critical capabilities, including data analytics, databases, and video processing.

OVHcloud is dedicated toward advancing its leadership status in the market both organically and via distinctive acquisition opportunities capable of improving growth and catalyzing variation in vital areas of improvement. Its lately declared acquisition of OpenIO, a pioneer of Object Storage software technology, OVHcloud has proven its desire to offer the best and outstanding storage offering to its consumers. Thus, EXTEN’s leading-edge technologies match the rising demand for performance-driven workloads.

EXTEN’s teams are known for their enhanced technical skills and will work with OVHcloud’s current team of specialists in the US and the rest of the world.

About OVHcloud

OVHcloud is a cloud provider offering Dedicated Servers, VMware based Hosted Private Cloud, and OpenStack-based Public Cloud to about 1.4 million consumers across the globe. The company is into data center design and management for about two decades.

  • The company is vertically integrated.
  • The company has one of the lowest Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) ratings in the industry.
  • OVHcloud is a pure-play infrastructure provider.

About OVHcloud US

OVHcloud US is a subsidiary of OVHcloud, a worldwide cloud hosting supplier that focuses on supplying industry-leading performance and cost-efficient solutions to scale, manage, and secure data. The company offers an intelligent solution for public and hybrid cloud solutions, bare metal servers, and hosted private cloud.

The company manages about 30 data centers across 12 locations on four continents, producing its own servers, constructing its own data centers, and utilizing its own fiber-optic global network to accomplish the highest efficacy. Via the OVHcloud determination of challenging the status quo, the company brings innovation, freedom, and security to face data challenges. Since 20-years being into this industry, OVHcloud is committed toward the development of an accountable technology, as the group strives to be the leading force after the next cloud evolution.

About Exten Technologies, Inc.

EXTEN, founded in 2012, is a scalable, agile, and reliable solution that is well suited for the most demanding low-latency and high-performance workloads where needs are highly unpredictable and variable, including real-time analytics. The EXTEN architecture is the first open standards NVMe solution with no trademarked software or hardware lock-in and consists of Redfish and Swordfish support in its REST API, offering frictionless integration to both associates and end-users.