Exactly a week ago, a fire broke out in an OVHcloud data centre in Strasbourg. On Wednesday March 10th at 00:47 am, data centre SBG2 completely burst into flames and three surrounding data rooms went down. As a result, a total of over 3.6 million websites went offline for a long time, including websites of banks, government agencies and online shops. The message from founder Octave Klaba was clear: activate the Disaster Recovery plan
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I followed this incident with great interest: in fact, it is one of the disaster scenarios that sometimes haunts my mind. Such as when we do a data centre tour with potential customers or when we do a selection of a new location (for expansion). After all, you want to do everything to avoid a disaster like this. How? By critically choosing the right partner in the data centre landscape and looking into their procedures and measures to detect things like fire in time. I think an essential component, for example, is VESDA (Very Early Smoke Detection Apparatus): a system that scans particles in the air to detect a change in air composition very rapidly.
