2023-04-22 05:30:00
The founder of OVH, a data hosting and cloud service, wants to buy the Qwant engine and compete with American and Chinese Big Tech.
Par Guillaume Grallet
Rock star. After creating OVH with his family, Octave Klaba, here in 2013, is strengthening his investments in French digital.
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Che who could well become the new European digital hero has a fine collection of guitars, discovered computing thanks to an Atari 800 XL and today makes some of his decisions with a cat named Pixel on his knees. However, by displaying his desire to buy, alongside the Caisse des dépôts, the Qwant search engine via the new Synfonium structure, Octave Klaba, creator with his family, in 1999 in Roubaix, of the data hosting champion OVH , wants to compete with American and Chinese Big Tech. “Europe has everything it needs to offer a tech alternative that respects our values. I have met hundreds of companies that have the talent, the technology… Only the ability to scale is missing. This is precisely what I want to develop with Synfonium because it is ultimately about our freedom »explains the fan of the album Made in Japan de Deep Purple.
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