OpenIO was a startup founded 26 June 2015 by a team of 6 co-founders (Guillaume Delaporte, Jean-François Smigielski, Julien Kasarherou, Laurent Denel, Marie Ponseel, Romain Acciari), experts in mail and data infrastructures. The headquarter was located in Lille, France, and there was also an OpenIO office in San Francisco.
But on 24 July 2020, OVHcloud acquired OpenIO for an undisclosed amount.
As a result of this aquisition, OpenIO web site is no more operating, but at least all the GitHub codes still remain available. The oio-sds seems still active, but as a community project.
With the acquisition of OpenIO, OVHcloud’s ambition is to create the best Object Storage offer on the market.
OpenIO offers a software solution that is independent of the hardware infrastructure and can address a variety of use cases within the same cluster. In addition to its record-breaking performance, the technology developed by OpenIO offers infinite scalability, which does not require data rebalancing when adding resources to the platform.
The combination of the functional richness and performance of OpenIO’s technology with OVHcloud’s industrial and cloud infrastructure expertise is very promising. It will enable the design of a very large-scale object storage offering at the best price/performance ratio. This alliance will empower OVHcloud to meet the technological challenges of both large companies and startups.
With the global volume of data doubling every 18 months, we are aware that storage issues are at the heart of the concerns of our 1.5 million customers. With the acquisition of OpenIO, we aim to create a highly scalable offering, benefiting from the best infrastructure and one of the most attractive prices in the market” says Michel Paulin, CEO of OVHcloud.
