OVH: fire in Strasbourg, datacenter destroyed. What consequences on the French internet?

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Re: OVH: fire in Strasbourg, datacenter destroyed. What consequences on the French internet?




by Exnihiloest » 21/03/21, 18:35

It is clear that OVH is a flamboyant company and I would not like to add fuel to the fire, only to spark their awareness. Yet scalded for the first time, here they are again in the oven and in the mill, especially in the oven.
So ardent at work, bubbling, they obviously have a sacred fire in OVH. Inextinguibles! I know that with the competition, the field is a little hot, but losing your temper to ignite at the slightest pretext and stir all fire all flame, it is not without consequences.
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Re: OVH: fire in Strasbourg, datacenter destroyed. What consequences on the French internet?




by Christophe » 23/03/21, 13:12

How to piss off little webmasters !!

Fire at OVH: sites that have lost personal data must alert the CNIL

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A fire whose effects concern the GDPR

The provisions of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) indeed provide for an obligation to notify in the event of the unavailability or destruction of personal data, including when this unavailability or destruction is the consequence of a fire in a data center. . In France, it is to the National Commission for Informatics and Liberties that we must turn.

The GDPR sets out in Article 33 the circumstances under which a notification to the supervisory authority of a personal data breach must take place. However, the definition of a personal data breach includes destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorized disclosure and fraudulent access, whether unlawfully or accidentally.


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by Exnihiloest » 23/03/21, 18:30

Christophe wrote:...
The GDPR sets out in Article 33 the circumstances under which a notification to the supervisory authority of a personal data breach must take place. However, the definition of a personal data breach includes destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorized disclosure and fraudulent access, whether unlawfully or accidentally.


A violation is a willful act, not an accident.
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Re: OVH: fire in Strasbourg, datacenter destroyed. What consequences on the French internet?




by Christophe » 21/05/21, 12:12

SOBRIETY IS BEAUTIFFUL! (not sure it's the same meaning ah ah ah)

A look back at the OVH server fire: is digital sobriety possible?

The irreversible damage caused by the fire in early March 2021 of the SGB2 data center of OVH, the French number 1 in cloud computing, continues to cause a stir. The term “cataclysm” has even often been used to describe this accident affecting a rapidly growing business sector, the consequences of which are still significant.

What can we learn from this today?



First lesson: the cloud does not exist

The fantasized and infantilizing vocabulary of cloud computing - “cloud computing” in French - is lastingly undermined by this fire that struck OVH. Because there is in fact no more cloud than dematerialization of data.

We should rather speak here of a physical displacement of the hypermateriality of the infrastructures that support the Internet network from point A - the cell phone, the computer on the office table, the server in the cupboard at the end of the corridor. , etc. - to a point B, where they are gathered and aggregated, namely the datacenter with its rooms, servers and storage bays.

Overall, it is wrong, even untrue, to speak of dematerialization when it is more simply necessary to speak of "another materialization"; this always uses cement, concrete, glass, fans, cables, copper, water, bitumen, etc. !

Cloud computing is only an outsourcing of data, applications and systems from domestic and / or professional terminals to remote operators, whose job it has become to store, secure, process and disseminate the information entrusted by their clients.

The Internet remains a network that connects computers to each other using a common protocol (TCP / IP). The sky and the clouds have nothing to do with all this ... except to accommodate the satellites, knowing that these satellites represent only a small part of the traffic if we look at everything that circulates on earth and under the sea through the cables that mesh the globe.

So the question is: when will we stop talking about “sky” and “cloud” as if we were talking to children?

The answer is not simple, because children, young and old, consume and produce data in large quantities and want to continue dreaming of immortality, immediacy and free.

And the health crisis that we have been going through since March 2020 has even accentuated remote uses - teleworking, videoconferencing, coworking, etc. - by strengthening the power of adoption of users.

The Covid-19 pandemic has also accentuated dependencies on networks, most of which have not yet started the shift to digital sobriety. But let's be happy that part of the "syntactic cloud" has already gone up in smoke!
Second lesson: integrate the vulnerability of the data center

Data centers, whatever their size, have become essential in the management and circulation of our data, public or private, professional or domestic, sensitive or anecdotal. These cyberstructures ultimately have the heavy responsibility of piloting the fifth fluid that is the Internet.

It is therefore essential to rethink their security and vulnerability, including the possibility of their physical disappearance. While most of the natural risks have been integrated and modeled to ensure the sustainability of these costly and strategic installations, the only thing left is a fire, a flood, an earthquake, a malicious act, an intrusion, or even an explosion during an outbreak. an attack remain possible.

This consideration of the major risk of the disappearance of the data factory must be integrated at the individual level - this is already largely the case when a professional client signs his outsourcing contract with a supplier and considers his reversibility - but also at the collective level.

However, this is less the case if we think of these installations in terms of “common good”, as evidenced by the distress of certain public and parapublic customers of OVH.

For any user, what matters is ultimately to know where their data is stored at a given moment and what happens if they were to disappear forever ...

For many cloud users - including SMEs and SMIs - the answer to this double question is not obvious; asking it is even a first step.

The relocation of data is sometimes possible, the sale of mainframe and hosted servers is also growing strongly, especially for security and sovereignty aspects.
Third lesson: produce less data

The environmental impact of such infrastructures is enormous and it will not stop growing as the mechanical explosion of the data to be processed. We are not talking about big data by chance!

From a distance, it is their construction and the mobilization of thousands of materials and various resources that are energy intensive; then comes their maintenance and operation, with a high consumption of water and electricity, in particular to ensure continuous cooling.

Even if the projects are more and more energy efficient and no longer have much to do with the first Californian data factories from 2000 to 2010, gigantic data centers remain energy gulfs.

The challenge here is not so much to rethink these infrastructures as the production of data. Which brings us to new questions: when will we think about the mortality of the data (their lifespan)? When will we consider not producing data, which in most cases remains quite useless, tasteless and untapped.

Towards greater digital sobriety?

Rather than strengthening the security and size of data centers, rather than waiting for the advent of distant quantum computing, wouldn't it be better to produce less data?

It is quite possible to take a step towards digital sobriety and digital responsibility.

E-waste is growing rapidly: and, as with many other things, the cheapest to recycle is what we will not have produced.

In this context, it is the question of the very relevance of devices, innovations or systems - which will mechanically create data, produce metadata and drive traffic on the web - that arises. We are thinking here of 5G, the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, the crypto economy (and more broadly the economy of the token), or even industry 4.0 as a whole.

While the data center is an essential tool, it generally only stores and processes data created elsewhere. Remember that this same datacenter is often owned by web giants - Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft or Google.

The business model of these platforms based precisely on the creation, use and monetization of data, we can doubt their interest in any digital sobriety ... It will by default be up to the citizen, the politician and the legislator to decide .


https://theconversation.com/retour-sur- ... ble-157193
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