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. Founded by Klaba in 1999, OVHcloud competes against U.S. giants Amazon Web Services, Microsoft’s Azure and Google Cloud, which dominate the market. French politicians have championed OVHcloud as a possible alternative to U.S. cloud services providers, but it has so far lacked the scale and financial clout to dent their market share. The Strasbourg centres were among OVHcloud’s 17 data centres in France, and 32 globally.

Source: Standard Digital March 10, 2021 14:37 UTC