Blaze Destroys Servers at Europe's Largest Cloud Services Firm10 Mar 2021 16:52
Blaze Destroys Servers at Europe's Largest Cloud Services Firm
ARIS (Reuters) - A fire destroyed some servers and temporarily shutdown others at OVHcloud on Wednesday, just two days after the French cloud computing firm kicked off plans for an initial public offering.
Europe's largest cloud services provider told clients including the French government, the Centre Pompidou and cryptocurrency exchange Deribit to activate their disaster recovery plans following the blaze in Strasbourg, east France.
The fire, which broke out shortly after midnight, destroyed one of four data centres and damaged another, the company said. The remaining two were shut down to contain the damage.
"We don't have access to the site. That is why SBG1, SBG3, SBG4 won’t be restarted today," founder and chairman Octave Klaba said on Twitter, referring to units housing servers.
The company said it would keep clients updated on the causes and consequences of the blaze.
Founded by Klaba in 1999, OVHcloud competes against U.S. giants Amazon Web Services, Microsoft's Azure and Google Cloud, which dominate the market.