OVHcloud Founder Octave Klaba Promises Free Data Backups in Future
In a video, OVHcloud founder and Chairman Octave Klaba have promised to provide free data backups in the future for its customers, after the OVH data center fire darkens popular sites worldwide. OVHcloud has provided the police with essential electrical equipment from its SBG2 data center which was engulfed in the fire the previous week. As shocked […]
The fire that destroyed a data center (and damaged others) at the OVHcloud facility in Strasbourg, France, on March 10-11, 2021, has raised a multitude of questions from concerned data center operators and customers around the world. Chief among these is, “What was the main cause, and could it have…
Ten days after a fire destroyed its SBG2 data center in Strasbourg, French hosting company OVH says it will abandon efforts to restart the adjacent SBG1 data center, and will shutter the facility and move servers to other locations. The decision followed an incident Friday night in which a battery…
Hosting company OVH says its staff are safe after a fire destroyed one data center and damaged another at the company’s campus in Strasbourg, France. All four data centers at the campus are offline this morning, but the company is working to restore some services once power can be restored…