Initial public offering (IPO) at Paris Bourse goes smoothly despite the hour-long outage on Wednesday
French cloud computing services provider OVHcloud’s IPO went ahead on Thursday at an offer price of €18.5 per share, the lower end of the proposed range according to sources close to IPO, valuing the firm at about €3.5 billion.
The IPO was oversubscribed and the largest in France this year.
OVHcloud is the second-biggest European-based cloud services provider after Deutsche Telekom’s T-Systems.
One of the IPO’s bookmakers said the new shares would raise about €350 million, while the sale of existing shares by shareholders including the Klaba family would account for a further €50 million.
Some see OVHcloud as a potential alternative to the American giants Amazon Web Services, Microsoft’s Azure and Google Cloud.
OVHcloud’s Chair, Octave Klaba, said on Twitter that Wednesday’s outage had followed a “human error” during the reconfiguration of one of its data centres in the US.
The network returned to normal around an hour later at 8:15 GMT.
It was the second major disruption for OVHcloud this year after a fire at the company’s premises in Strasbury in March disrupted millions of websites, including government agencies’ portals, banks, shops, news websites and taking out a chunk of the .FR web space.