OpenNebula Systems and OVHcloud have announced a strategic partnership focused on expanding sovereign cloud infrastructure across Europe. The collaboration enables certified OpenNebula deployments to run on OVHcloud’s European-hosted infrastructure, targeting enterprises and public institutions seeking compliant, open, and regionally governed cloud alternatives.
The partnership allows customers to deploy OpenNebula on high-performance bare-metal servers with automated provisioning, reference architectures, and self-service capabilities. As a result, organizations can integrate these deployments with private, hybrid, hosted, or Edge environments, supporting hybrid and multi-cloud architectures without dependence on non-European virtualization stacks.
“This collaboration with OVHcloud is a concrete step toward making sovereign cloud a practical reality in Europe,” said Alexander Sergunin, Global Partner Manager at OpenNebula Systems. “By offering certified OpenNebula deployments on trusted European infrastructure, OVHcloud strengthens the ecosystem of open, interoperable, and compliant cloud solutions, and enables public and private organisations to build secure hybrid cloud environments fully based on European software and services.”
Infrastructure scale underpins sovereign cloud ambitions
OVHcloud operates approximately 46 data centers across four continents. Importantly, Europe remains the company’s core region. OVHcloud is headquartered in France. In addition, it runs facilities in Germany, Italy, Poland, and other European markets. More recently, the company launched a new data center in Germany. As a result, its sovereign hosting capacity expanded further. OVHcloud operates local zone Edge locations. These span around 28 metropolitan areas worldwide. Consequently, the infrastructure supports latency-sensitive and distributed workloads.
“The collaboration with OpenNebula Systems is perfectly aligned with OVHcloud’s mission to offer fully sovereign cloud options for European organisations without compromising performance, flexibility, or interoperability thanks to open source,” said John Gazal, VP of southern Europe at OVHcloud. “Our OpenNebula-powered environments provide a ready-to-use alternative to other virtualization stacks, enabling scalable private, hybrid, and Edge clouds in Europe.”
The joint offering will roll out under the Hosted OpenNebula Cloud – Ready Certification Program and align with OpenNebula’s wider sovereign initiatives, including its coordination of Virt8ra, a multi-provider European Edge cloud. Together, the partnership reflects a broader shift toward interoperable, open, and sovereign cloud infrastructure designed and operated within Europe.
