MONTREAL – Cloud and internet services company OVH.com announced plans to expand its activities in Greater Montréal to keep pace with demand for hosting and internet services.
OVH.com has its R&D and commercial service headquarters in downtown Montréal, as well as a data centre in Beauharnois, on Montréal's South Shore. The company said this week that it will set up a new 17,800 square foot headquarters in Montréal and double its workforce by creating around 140 new jobs.
"Exploding digital demand is driving major changes in the industry, and OVH is responding to this new reality”, said CEO Laurent Allard, in the news release. “Our Greater Montréal facility, which is home to the world's biggest data centre—with 360,000 servers—has opened up the North American market to us."
OVH.com operates over 220,000 physical servers in 17 data centres world-wide, powered by a private fiber optic network (4,000 Gbps).
