In an increasingly complex cloud landscape, where trust, compliance, and control matter more than ever, two European tech players have decided to carve a path together. OVHcloud and Crayon have entered into a global partnership aimed at giving organizations more flexibility and transparency when deploying cloud infrastructure across borders.
Unlike the typical cloud industry posturing around scale and speed, this partnership between OVHcloud and Crayon is all about pragmatism—meeting organizations exactly where regulatory complexity hits hardest. For sectors like healthcare, finance, or the public sector, that’s a game-changer. OVHcloud contributes robust, globally distributed infrastructure, while Crayon’s vendor-neutral consulting ensures that clients aren’t shoehorned into the usual hyperscaler playbook.
This isn’t just some nice-to-have; it’s a timely response to mounting legal pressure. With GDPR in full swing and NIS2 on the horizon, European businesses are under unprecedented scrutiny regarding data residency. The hyperscalers’ US connections remain a sticking point for entities needing strict data sovereignty. This alliance addresses that head-on, providing a compliant, high-performance European alternative—without sacrificing scalability.
Caroline Comet-Fraigneau from OVHcloud pointed out that this partnership directly supports their long-term aim for sustainable, autonomous cloud infrastructure. Meanwhile, Erling Hesselberg at Crayon highlighted a pretty serious trend: enterprises are under pressure to stay agile, meet compliance standards, and manage costs—all at the same time. Their combined offerings cover everything from public cloud and Kubernetes to private environments with VMware, Nutanix, and even bare metal—always with a distinctly European compliance lens.
The real differentiator here is the practical integration of Crayon’s advisory expertise—think FinOps and hybrid cloud optimization—with OVHcloud’s considerable hardware footprint (over 450,000 servers across 44 data centers globally). This lets businesses build strategies that satisfy both technical and regulatory requirements, without unnecessary friction.
As organizations reevaluate their cloud architectures in response to geopolitical and environmental uncertainty, solutions like this partnership represent a viable path forward—enabling full control and compliance, without compromising on performance or operational clarity.
