{"id":36733,"date":"2021-03-12T12:20:28","date_gmt":"2021-03-12T12:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vmengine.net\/2021\/03\/12\/ovh-suffers-a-major-blow-when-it-fires-in-a-datacentre-in-strasbourg\/"},"modified":"2025-05-23T17:27:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T17:27:15","slug":"ovh-suffers-a-major-blow-when-it-fires-in-a-datacentre-in-strasbourg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/temp_new.vmenginelab.com\/en\/2021\/03\/12\/ovh-suffers-a-major-blow-when-it-fires-in-a-datacentre-in-strasbourg\/","title":{"rendered":"OVH suffers a major blow when it fires in a datacentre in Strasbourg"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An entire building of the French society was destroyed by the flames. It happened on OVH’s Strasbourg campus.<\/span><\/i><\/h6>\n<\/div><\/div>\n
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What happened?<\/b><\/p>\n

Around 2 a.m. on March 10, one of OVH’s four data center buildings <\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/a>, SBG2 was engulfed in flames. The entire site was cordoned off and this implied a shutdown of data centers SGB1 to 4. <\/span><\/p>\n

SGB1 and SGB4 are scheduled to reopen by March 15, while SGB3 will be restored by Friday, March 19.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The intervention of the fire brigade was unable to contain the damage, but it seems that there were no victims. The cause of the fire has not yet been established, meanwhile an investigation has been launched on behalf of the authorities.<\/span><\/p>\n

The sudden interruption of activities has caused quite a few problems for the customers of the cloud service provider, which has more than one and a half million applications on its data centers. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Down of thousands of sites, inactive mailboxes, along with the numerous complaints from users on the company’s official social profiles, who ask for greater technical assistance to buffer the various problems. The company has shown itself ready to intervene with direct assistance to customers, but the situation still seems to be unmanageable.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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What is the Disaster Recovery Plan?<\/b><\/p>\n

Through his twitter profile, founder and CEO Octave Kabla urged his users to activate the Disaster Recovery Plan as soon as possible to deal with the sudden emergency.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>The <\/span>
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\n<\/a> It is a process related to preparing for the recovery and continuity of a business’s vital services after a natural event or human error. It consists of a set of phases including:<\/span><\/p>\n