{{Short description|French cloud computing company}} {{Multiple issues| {{Promotional|date=March 2024}} {{COI|date=May 2018}} }} {{Infobox company | name = Scaleway | logo = | logo_caption = Scaleway logo | former_name = Online SAS<ref name="scaleway-aboutus">{{Cite web|title=About Us|url=https://www.scaleway.com/en/about-us/|access-date=2021-07-21|website=Scaleway|language=en}}</ref> | founder = Xavier Niel | founded = <!-- Wikidata : P571 --> | key_people = {{Unbulleted list|Aude Durand (chairperson)|Damien Lucas (CEO)|Jean-Baptiste Kempf (CTO)}} | products = Cloud computing, Dedicated Servers, Web Hosting | location_city = <!-- Wikidata : P159 --> | location_country = <!-- Wikidata : P17 --> | num_employees = 550<ref name="scaleway-aboutus"/> | website = {{official URL}} | module = {{infobox network service provider|child=yes|asn=12876}} }}
'''Scaleway''' (formerly '''Online SAS''' or '''Online.net''')<ref name="scaleway-aboutus" /> is a French cloud computing and web hosting company<ref>{{Cite web|title=Digital souverän: Wie gut kann ich eine Woche lang auf US-Dienste verzichten?|url=https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000264167/digital-souveraen-wie-gut-kann-ich-eine-woche-lang-auf-us-dienste-verzichten|website=DER STANDARD|access-date=2026-01-31|language=de-AT}}</ref>, founded by Xavier Niel in 1999 and a majority owned subsidiary of the Iliad group. The company provides physical dedicated servers and cloud computing architectures.
As of 2015, Scaleway is the second largest hosting company in France.<ref>{{cite web|language=fr|author=Dominique Filippone|title=OVH à la 4e place du marché mondial de l'hébergement|url=https://www.lemondeinformatique.fr/actualites/lire-ovh-a-la-4e-place-du-marche-mondial-de-l-hebergement-61756.html|date=13 July 2015|publisher=Le Monde informatique|accessdate=13 May 2016}}</ref>
== History ==
In 1999, Online started its activities in web hosting and domain name registration services<ref>{{cite web|language=fr|title=Welcome to Online.net (archive)|url=http://www.online.fr/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000229121043/http://www.online.fr/|url-status=dead|archive-date=2000-02-29|date=February 2000|accessdate=13 May 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|language=en|title=Our company|url=https://www.online.net/en/about-us|accessdate=19 February 2018}}</ref>
In August 2002, the domain name registrar BookMyName was bought by Iliad from its competitor LDCom.<ref>{{cite web | language=fr | url=http://www.journaldunet.com/0208/020821bookmyname.shtml | title=Online rachète les activités de BookMyName à LDCom | publisher=Le Journal du Net |date=21 August 2002}}</ref>
In May 2006, rental of dedicated servers through the Dedibox brand was launched.
In December 2008, Iliad bought Alice ADSL: They also took over construction and operation of Datacenters, launched in 1999 by ISDnet, bought by Cable & Wireless in January 2000<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.reseaux-telecoms.net/actualites/lire-cable-et-wireless-rachet-xe8-te-isdnet-5694.html|title=Cable & Wireless rachète ISDnet - Actualités|website=www.reseaux-telecoms.net}}</ref> acquired by Tiscali France in June 2003<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.journaldunet.com/0306/030625tiscali.shtml|title=Tiscali reprend les activités de Cable & Wireless en France|website=www.journaldunet.com}}</ref> and finally renamed as Iliad Datacenter.
In April 2010, Online merges with Dedibox, another subsidiary of Iliad,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.universfreebox.com/article10717.html|title=Free regroupe ses activités dhébergeur et lance un nouveau site|website=www.universfreebox.com|date=16 April 2010 }}</ref> bringing together different hosting activities under a single brand.
In 2012, the company has opened its third datacenter of 11800 m² in Vitry-sur-Seine<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.itespresso.fr/arnaud-bermingham-iliad-datacenter-nous-ouvrirons-data-center-bunker-paris-debut-2014-60141.html|title=Arnaud Bermingham (Iliad) : "Un 'datacenter bunker' dans Paris"|date=20 December 2012|publisher=}}</ref> after 11 months of construction works. The site received the first Tier-III certification in France by Uptime Institute in January 2014.
Since 2012, the company publishes in real time the PUE of its datacenters on pue.online.net, in an effort of transparency.
In 2013, Online launched labs.online.net in preview. An infrastructure as a service offer, based on dedicated hardware and without virtualization,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://labs.online.net/press|title=Online Labs announce Scaleway|website=Online Labs|access-date=2018-03-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303170928/http://labs.online.net/press|archive-date=2016-03-03|url-status=dead}}</ref> based on ARM CPUs.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://venturebeat.com/2014/12/29/why-french-telecom-iliad-is-launching-an-arm-based-cloud-service-and-why-it-matters/|title=Why French telecom Iliad is launching an ARM-based cloud service — and why it matters|date=29 December 2014|publisher=}}</ref> The hardware is made in a factory near Laval in France.
In April 2015 the service left its beta status and has been renamed as Scaleway.<ref>{{cite web|language=fr|author=Sébastien Gavois|title=Scaleway : Online lance son " cloud " à base d'instances dédiées, dès 0,02 € par heure|url=http://www.nextinpact.com/news/93693-scaleway-online-lance-son-cloud-a-base-dinstances-dediees-des-002-par-heure.htm|date=3 April 2015|accessdate=13 May 2016}}</ref> As the popularity of the platform grows, Online added servers with x86_64 based CPUs in March 2016.<ref>{{cite web|language=fr|title=Iliad/Free : l'hébergeur Online ajoute le x86 à son Cloud Scaleway|url=http://www.silicon.fr/iliad-free-online-ajoute-x86-cloud-scaleway-141372.html|date=10 March 2016|accessdate=13 May 2016}}</ref>
In early 2015, the company announced to have exceeded {{formatnum:400}} Gb/s of immediate Internet traffic.<ref name="comunication twitter">{{Cite web|title=Scaleway FR on Twitter|url=https://twitter.com/scaleway_fr/status/559722346538598401|access-date=2020-08-20|website=Twitter|language=fr|quote=Nous venons d'exploser notre record : 400Gbit/sec de trafic global, x7 en 18 mois et aucun loupé, team réseau <3 cc @sevi_42 @mmarcha}}</ref>
Entrepreneur {{interlanguage link|Yann Lechelle|fr}} joined as CEO in early 2020,<ref name=ceo-nomination>{{cite web|title=Scaleway nominates Yann Lechelle as CEO|url=https://blog.scaleway.com/yann-lechelle-joins-scaleway/|author=|first=|date=28 March 2024|website=|language=|archive-url=|archive-date=}}</ref> but left in December 2022.<ref name=yann-l-departure>{{cite web|title=Yann Lechelle quitte la direction générale de Scaleway|url=https://www.lemondeinformatique.fr/actualites/lire-yann-lechelle-quitte-la-direction-generale-de-scaleway-maj-88973.html|author=|first=|date=20 December 2022|website=|language=|archive-url=|archive-date=}}</ref>
In November 2023, Iliad launched Kyutai in France, the first European independent and non-profit artificial intelligence research laboratory, a laboratory that adopts an open-source and open-science approach for 300 million Euro.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www-wired-it.translate.goog/article/intelligenza-artificiale-kyutai-francia/?_x_tr_sl=it&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=it&_x_tr_pto=wapp|title=A 300 million super laboratory for artificial intelligence in Paris|date=November 21, 2023}}</ref>
According to Euractiv, the European Commission has been in talks for several weeks about European cloud providers as alternatives to Microsoft, including Scaleway.<ref>{{Cite web|title=EU-Kommission möchte US-Cloud-Services durch europäische Anbieter ablösen|url=https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000274884/eu-kommission-moechte-us-cloud-services-durch-europaeische-anbieter-abloesen|website=DER STANDARD|access-date=2026-01-31|language=de-AT}}</ref>
== Infrastructure == === Datacenters === thumb|Aerial view of Online DC3. Scaleway owns and operates several data centers located in Île-de-France.<ref>{{cite web|language=fr|title=Datacenters - Documentation|url=https://documentation.online.net/fr/serveur-dedie/datacenters|date=23 June 2015|accessdate=13 May 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|language=fr|title=Nos datacenters|url=http://www.iliad-datacenter.fr/datacenters|accessdate=13 May 2016|archive-date=16 May 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160516020749/http://www.iliad-datacenter.fr/datacenters|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* ''DC2'', with a size of {{formatnum:4500}} m² in Vitry-sur-Seine, within the Val-de-Marne. The building has been constructed in 1989 by NMPP (Presstalis), then successively taken over by ISDNet, Cable & Wireless, Tiscali, then Telecom Italia, and is therefore an indirect product of the acquisition of Alice ADSL by Iliad. * ''DC3'', with a size of {{formatnum:11800}} m² in the same city is divided into several private spaces. It was built in 2012 by the group.<ref>{{cite web|language=fr|author=Cécile Debise|title=Dans le géantissime data center DC3 d'Online|url=http://www.journaldunet.com/solutions/cloud-computing/reportage-data-center-dc3-d-online/|date=13 May 2014|accessdate=13 May 2016}}</ref> It has reached its capacity in early 2016 and works have been planned to extend its capacity by {{formatnum:2300}} m2.<ref name="DC3 Full">{{cite web|language=fr|author=Arnaud de Bermingham|title=DC3 - Datacenter complet - Travaux d'extension|url=https://status.online.net/index.php?do=details&task_id=477|date=January 2016|accessdate=13 May 2016|archive-date=15 August 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160815172044/https://status.online.net/index.php?do=details&task_id=477|url-status=dead}}</ref> * ''DC4'', with a size of {{formatnum:8000}} m² on six floors in the 15th arrondissement of Paris, housed in the former anti-atomic fallout shelter of the "Laboratoire central des ponts et chaussées". It was built between 1936 and 1939 by architect Gabriel Héraud,<ref>{{cite web|language=fr|author1=Hélène Schwoerer|author2=Christine Hugues|title=Transformation du url du Laboratoire Central des Ponts et Chaussées|url=http://www.brancion-brassens.org/urls/default/files/2012_03_10_ActuProjet_LCPC.pdf|date=March 2012|accessdate=13 May 2016}}{{Dead link|date=March 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> the building was acquired by Iliad in 2011.<ref>{{cite web|language=fr|title=Online (groupe Iliad) fait l'acquisition d'un abri anti-atomique à Paris (archive)|url=http://datacenter.silicon.fr/online-groupe-iliad-fait-lacquisition-dun-abri-anti-atomique-a-paris-2982.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110530001046/http://datacenter.silicon.fr/online-groupe-iliad-fait-lacquisition-dun-abri-anti-atomique-a-paris-2982.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=30 May 2011|date=27 May 2011|accessdate=13 May 2016}}</ref> The main part of the fallout shelter is being used for the C14 offer.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.online.net/fr/c14|title=Service d'archivage C14|website=Online SAS|access-date=2018-03-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180514121508/https://www.online.net/fr/c14|archive-date=2018-05-14|url-status=dead}}</ref> * ''DC5'', with a size of {{formatnum:32000}} m² on four floors at Saint-Ouen-l'Aumône. It is the result of the acquisition of an old mail sorting center of La Poste,<ref>{{cite web|language=fr|author=David Feugey|title=Online, filiale d'Iliad, va booster son réseau de datacenters en 2016|url=http://www.silicon.fr/lhebergeur-online-va-booster-son-infrastructure-en-2016-137076.html|date=27 January 2016|accessdate=13 May 2016}}</ref> and will handle the growth from 2017-2025 of the hoster.<ref name="DC3 Full" />
In the past the company operated also: * ''DC1'', with a size of 6300 m² in Bezons,<ref>{{cite web|language=fr|author=Simon T. (Generation NT)|title=Visit of a datacenter of Dedibox from Iliad|url=http://www.generation-nt.com/dedibox-hebergement-dedie-iliad-viurl-article-24855-1.html|date=11 July 2007|accessdate=13 May 2016}}</ref> which also hosts the network head of Free.<ref>{{cite web|language=fr|author=Marc Brice|title=New network traffic map of the Ile de France region|url=https://www.freenews.fr/freenews-edition-nationale-299/assistance-13/nouvelle-carte-du-trafic-reseau-ile-de-france-2648|date=30 October 2005|accessdate=13 May 2016}}</ref> Built in 2001 by the American company Exodus Communications<ref>{{cite web|language=fr|author=Eric Delporte|title=Un géant de l'Internet s'installe à Bezons|url=http://www.leparisien.fr/val-d-oise/un-geant-de-l-internet-s-installe-a-bezons-eric-delporte-14-12-2000-2001825516.php|date=14 December 2000|accessdate=13 May 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|language=fr|title=Exodus : viurl des quartiers de haute sécurité|url=http://www.journaldunet.com/solutions/0105/010522_exodus.shtml|date=22 May 2001|accessdate=13 May 2016}}</ref> then taken back by Spherion,<ref>{{cite web|language=fr|author=François Morel|title=Hébergeurs : que sont devenus PSINet Europe et Exodus France ?|url=http://www.journaldunet.com/solutions/0204/020403_psinetexodus.shtml|date=3 April 2002|accessdate=13 May 2016}}</ref> after the bankruptcy of the company. It is leased to Iliad on a long-term contract since 2003<ref>{{cite web|language=fr|title=Document de référence 2007|url=https://www.iliad.fr/amf/document_de_reference_ILIAD_2007_140408.pdf|date=15 April 2008|accessdate=13 May 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|language=fr|title=Document de référence 2009|url=https://www.iliad.fr/amf/2010/documentdereference2009.pdf|date=29 April 2010|accessdate=13 May 2016}}</ref> This site does not host any activities of Online since 2013.<ref>{{Cite tweet|author=Online.net|user=online_fr|number=402394078417289216|date=18 November 2013|title=Nous venons de couper définitivement DC1. Plusieurs dizaines de milliers de serveurs migré. Une page de notre histoire qui se tourne ...|access-date=13 May 2016|language=fr}}</ref>
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== External links == * {{Official website|https://www.scaleway.com/en/}}
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