OVHcloud

The European Commissions revision of public procurement directives (2014/23/EU, 2014/24/EU, and 2014/25/EU) comes at a crucial moment as Europe seeks to enhance the strategic autonomy, competitiveness, security and sustainability of its digital infrastructure.

OVHcloud, the leading European cloud provider, welcomes the opportunity to contribute to the European Commissions initiative Towards European open digital ecosystems, in response to the questions suggested in the Call for Evidence. Together with the upcoming Cloud and AI Development Act, these initiatives can provide a coherent framework to strengthen Europes digital sovereignty and competitiveness.

OVHcloud welcomes the revision of the Cybersecurity Act as a timely opportunity to both ensure secure and resilient IT services and strengthen ENISAs mandate, especially in the context of recent geopolitical challenges that have exposed Europes strategic vulnerabilities.

OVHcloud, the leading European cloud provider, welcomes the opportunity to provide feedback to the European Commissions White Paper How to master Europes digital infrastructure needs?. Digital infrastructure is a critical component to guarantee economic security and sustained competitiveness. In the coming years, Europes digital infrastructure will need meet a growing demand for complex and disruptive technologies.

OVHcloud supports the development of a European rating scheme for data centers, which represents a key opportunity to ensure consistent, transparent and comparable communication on their environmental footprint. Given the rapid growth of digital infrastructure, it is essential that the public, regulators, and market actors can rely on accurate, harmonized and independently audited data.