OVHcloud and Plakar integrate backup natively into Public Cloud
Roubaix – 3 September 2026 – OVHcloud, a global player and Europe’s leading cloud provider, and Plakar, a French open-source software company specializing in data resilience, are natively integrating backup into OVHcloud’s Public Cloud. Customers keep their keys, and copies stay in Europe.
Backup, a core cloud function
Protecting a cloud environment still means assembling several pieces of software depending on the products used, virtual machines, Kubernetes, managed databases, then adding storage, a contract and skills. From now on, backup becomes a service in its own right, multi-product, managed directly from the OVHcloud environment, from traditional applications to AI workloads.
Restore anywhere, without depending on your cloud
Every backup remains portable: customers can restore their data elsewhere, including outside OVHcloud. They alone hold the keys. Plakar restores an application’s entire environment, right through to AI workloads.
Yaniv Fdida, Chief Product & Technology Officer at OVHcloud, said: “Backup is a core cloud function, just like compute or networking. We are integrating it natively, true to our principles of openness and reversibility.”
Julien Mangeard, co-founder and CEO of Plakar, said: “Attacks now eventually succeed: backup is no longer a company’s last line of defense, it is the first. We are proud to make it native at OVHcloud, and to protect that many companies in the process, without ever locking their data in.”
About OVHcloud
OVHcloud is a global player and European leader in cloud computing. For more than 25 years, the Group has been putting its technological expertise at the service of businesses, developers and public organizations, developing innovative solutions in cloud, artificial intelligence, quantum computing and next-generation infrastructure. With 46 data centers around the world, OVHcloud supports 1.7 million customers in more than 140 countries across 4 continents. Its unique integrated model enables it to offer a sovereign, sustainable, high-performing and transparent cloud, designed to meet the critical challenges of availability, resilience, security, compliance and cost control. In a world where technology is shaping our future more every day, OVHcloud upholds a strong conviction: innovation must remain open, controlled and accessible to as many people as possible. By giving organizations the means to retain control over their data and their technology choices, OVHcloud helps them innovate, build and freely deploy the digital world of tomorrow. OVHcloud, Innovation for Freedom.
About Plakar
Plakar is a French open source software vendor specializing in data backup and recovery. Its technology is built on Kloset, a snapshot engine delivering immutable, deduplicated, compressed and end-to-end encrypted snapshots, designed to run on any type of storage. Plakar protects file systems, virtual machines, Kubernetes environments, databases and AI workloads alike, and restores a complete application environment anywhere, with the encryption keys remaining under the customer’s sole control. Founded by Gilles Chehade, creator of the OpenSMTPD project, and Julien Mangeard, former CTO of Veepee, the company is driven by a simple conviction: data resilience should be entrusted to a third party without ever compromising confidentiality or control. Plakar is based in Paris and developed by a team of European engineers. More information: www.plakar.io
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