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something is amiss... a data collection facility... no fire supression... no back-ups... no redundencies.... no sense at all... me thinks that something funny is happening when the fire is not even out and the media can claim that all is lost....
Yeah, that's half of the truth, i work in enterprise IT with big datacentres and hosting providers, NO WAY the portion of compute and storage was not geo-redundant, if you know how a datacentre is planned, designed, and built, you know that this wont' make the lose any bit, probably is that they have been told to declare everything gone by someone, and that the disks have been taken away.
Depending on the contract you have, they have no obligation to backup your data, for that either you do it, or you buy another service that does so, but still, they do have backup for a X numbers of reasons, within which you have forensic, national security, legal coverture, and much more
Plus there are companies specialised in data recovery that can recover data from physically broken or burned drives, puzzling them together, then with dedicated machines they can read data in different way, via EMF / magnetism laser and other stuffs
But still, something like this doesn't happen by mistake in a building worth millions / billions of euro
Well, looking from this picture looks like a strange pattern / shade / shape to be natural
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EwGnLzaXMAMDE-r?format=jpg&name=large
Enterprise IT is my quasi-wheelhouse as well, and I concur. They had remote mirroring capability on many different now obsolete as crap enterprise data products a decade+ ago and availability and disaster recovery are key
Exactly, and we should think that one of the biggest providers of cloud services that certifies his Datacentres as tier 3+/4 state of innovation, really lost millions of websites? Please....
Not done work with datacenters but IT is my wheelhouse; this is 100% correct.
This is some big smell goin on.
Yeah, just like reporters knowing in advance that Building Seven is gonna come down...
Thats the smell test right there. Any hosting company worth its salt would have offsite backups.( and their clients would probably do their own backups as a backup also) Also, these type of places invest A LOT of money into climate control and disaster mitigation.(ie fire suppression)
I worked literally inside a data center earlier in my career. It had halide? Fire suppression. Can't remember if thats the name. In the event of a fire alarm you had 15 seconds to get out the door before they started pumping this inert gas into the building. Suffocating to humans. And fire.
Halon. I'm doing mep design on data centers now. I don't know what the standards are in France but in the US even a basic (sub Tier-1) data center has fire suppression and network rooms tend to have redundant suppression and be built wife fire walls all around.
Still halon ?
Thats it!
As a fireman, its odd to see a building like that to be fully involved. Takes more than a faulty wire to get a building like that going....especially with the fire suppression systems they should have in place. Just sayin