{"id":26830,"date":"2014-09-23T09:30:04","date_gmt":"2014-09-23T07:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/?p=26830"},"modified":"2014-09-23T09:30:04","modified_gmt":"2014-09-23T07:30:04","slug":"new-data-center-north-america-clevercloud-continues-international-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/2014\/09\/new-data-center-north-america-clevercloud-continues-international-expansion\/","title":{"rendered":"With a new data center in North America, Clever Cloud continues its international expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"clevercloud2\"Developing a \u2018French cloud\u2019 (or at least a European one) to conquer the mighty American tech giants like Amazon, IBM, Microsoft and others has been a top priority for France and the EU in general. France even allocated 150 million euros to help finance the creation of two companies, Numergy (led by SFR and Bull) and Cloudwatt (i.e. Orange and Thales)<\/a> to support this goal.\u00a0 Not surprisingly, the latest government-funded, big tech project seems uncertain with Numergy only expecting to post 6 million in revenues in 2014 and Cloudwatt only expecting to generate a third of that <\/a>amount. \u00a0And there are even reports that Bercy, France\u2019s Finance ministry, is now pushing to merge the two!<\/p>\n

Once again, it seems that the French government\u2019s attempt to rival the US-based tech stalwarts by creating their own ‘tech jewels’ looks worryingly misguided.\u00a0 Perhaps a better solution would have been to support French or Europe startups and SMEs already active in the sector. While the government has had their attentions diverted by their Cloudwatt\/Numergy project, France\u2019s cloud startups have been \u2018getting on with it\u2019, with some starting to show some real promise. One of the latest success stories has been Clever Cloud, which just announced that it will soon launch its PaaS in North America.<\/p>\n

The European cloud computing space has become increasingly competitive, resulting in more and more casualties, including the two flagship PaaS companies dotCloud being sold-off by Docker to Berlin-based cloudControl<\/a>\u00a0this past August\u00a0and CloudBees\u00a0announcing a couple weeks ago that they’d be exiting the PaaS market<\/a>. In light of this tough environment, Clever Cloud has managed to buck the trend by offering a flexible platform that works for startups and large companies alike (their clients include \u00a0BNP Paribas, Manitou Group, LeMonde.fr and the Axa Group) and by expanding internationally.<\/p>\n

Opening a data center in Montreal will enable them to expand more aggressively in the US market with a service which will better allow its clients to deploy\u00a0their web applications and offers improved latency (response time between Paris and Chicago is 670 milliseconds and Montreal and Chicago, 150 milliseconds). Following their big expansion push, several\u00a0features, such as a github integration and a wide marketplace integrating developer oriented SaaS (i.e like heroku add-ons), will soon follow.<\/p>\n

According to Founder and CEO Quentin Adam, this is a big step in their evolution. \u00a0He adds…“Our goal is to raise the global level of functionality of our PaaS; making it a true plateform of productivity for developers. We want to industrialize the Cloud, via the Platform as a Service.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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