In the debate between three tweets “Data sovereignty” and “technical sovereignty”, Octave Klaba officially confirmed the arrival of two new services on OVHCloud: SAP HANA in-memory database and ServiceNow’s ITSM solution.
SAP HANA on OVH
So far, the discussion between SAP and OVH has been informal. Frédéric Chauviré, the head of the local branch of the German publisher, said during a webinar with USF on Rise with SAP that there is an ongoing exchange between the two European companies. But the content of the discussion-we suspect it involves HANA or even S/4HANA Cloud-remains confidential.
“Today OVH does not have a certified SAP platform”, then Frédéric Chauviré explained, and then concluded his answer with a short sentence: “We work, we discuss with them, directly with partners”. In this case, Capgemini.
Last week, in the Sapphire 2021 keynote speech, still working with USF, the head of SAP confirmed that these discussions are progressing, and even held a meeting on June 2.
But this road seems to be a long time before the official announcement.
Long, it certainly will. But for Octave Klaba, there is no doubt at the end of the road: there will be SAP HANA service on OVHCloud.
Our “data sovereignty” service
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-Exchange de Microsoft✅
-Nutanix✅
-Serve immediately ✅
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-Hana de SAP✅
-OnTap de NetApp✅
there are more— Octave Klaba (@olesovhcom)
June 9, 2021
Currently, OVH is not in the list of official SAP certified partner platforms.
If OVH decides to host certified devices (such as those from HPE, Lenovo, Dell, or Fujitsu) and sell them in the form of a host private cloud (hosted) or even a private cloud, the service may appear soon. Capgemini, oXya (Hitachi) or Atos.
But this method is not the traditional philosophy of OVHCloud, it always tends to assemble its own server and use its own proprietary technology (home-made bios, etc.) to personalize it.
This industrial strategy allows OVH to control its infrastructure end-to-end and use a single coordinator for automation. On the other side of the coin, it must pass the SAP hardware certification box, which further expands the production of SAP HANA on OVHCloud.
Summary: There will be HANA on OVH. The question now is: when?
SAP and OVH contacted by LeMagIT did not add any additional information to Octave Klaba’s statement.
ServiceNow on OVHCloud
If OVH is a user of SAP (S/4HANA), it is also ServiceNow starting in 2019.
During the “Now at Work” 2019 event in Paris, OVHCloud President Michel Paulin and Bruno Buffenoir, the head of the ServiceNow French subsidiary who went to Nutanix at the time, formally established a partnership. The French cloud operator will use US ITSM to modernize its customer services.
At the time, LeMagIT was guessing. This “first step”-as described by Michel Paulin-will inevitably require support from other sources, including the possibility of ServiceNow to provide SaaS on the OVH infrastructure, without being affected by US legislation.
Octave Klava in UN TwitterNo further comment, suggesting that she is not far-fetched.
This is especially true because ServiceNow is one of the cloud players that offers the most deployment options. As Matthieu de Montvallon, French CTO of ServiceNow reminded us, publishers even agreed to sell their “platforms” as licenses for many years.
“There are many possible solutions. The most radical is “onsite.” […] Please note that this is not our model!But we (also) can do this in extreme cases,” ServiceNow France’s Director Solution Consulting emphasized. “We provide software and [les clients] Install it. They manage updates-themselves or through partners, or even through a dedicated ServiceNow team”.
Matthieu de Montvallon added: “Between onsite and SaaS, ServiceNow can host [et managé] Through partners”, such as OBS or Atos. Therefore, technically speaking, nothing can prevent a more successful alliance with OVH.
Since then, ServiceNow has gone one step further and joined the Open Trusted Cloud Project, which aims to “jointly build a SaaS and PaaS service ecosystem hosted in an open, reversible and reliable OVHcloud cloud”, cloud operator Express.
Therefore, Octave Klaba’s formalization of “ServiceNow on OVHCloud” was just an accident-the logical result of a good relationship between the two actors-but an expected announcement, and in the correct line. Trusted cloud Or from Blue (Orange’s Microsoft 365).
Likewise, the availability date of the service has yet to be determined.
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