Kakao CEO quits, South Korea hits emergency button after dire datacenter blaze One of the CEOs of South Korean super-app Kakao has resigned in the wake of the datacenter fire that disrupted it and other web giants. Kakao operates messaging, rideshare, e-commerce and many other services in South Korea. Most were unavailable for much of the weekend after a fire at the third-party datacenter hosting its …
" OVH’s fire in Strasbourg, for example, destroyed customer data and took many businesses offline for weeks without resulting in an executive’s career being derailed."
Sure but the OVH clown CEO is french (as I am), and failure is often spun out, in France, like the whole OVH fiasco, or the whole power cuts we'll soon have, should the thermometer go down a bit, like it's gonna do like every year, in November.
South Korea has, I reckon, a different culture, where people acknowledge their failures and quit.
The real difference is that OVH is a family affair, it was founded by Octave Klaba and three other family members and is still managed by the family: Octave Klaba is the chairman, Henryk Klaba is the president and Miroslaw Klaba is their R&D director
So firing someone at the top would make Christmas dinner a bit awkward
"The real difference is that OVH is a family affair, it was founded by Octave Klaba and three other family members and is still managed by the family: Octave Klaba is the chairman, Henryk Klaba is the president and Miroslaw Klaba is their R&D director"
Yep, and this is the reason you need to run away (far) from them if you're in need of DC hosting.
SK has its own local tech so that it never needs to 'take back control' of its digital borders. They used to slow access to global tech to promote the local hangul version, causing havoc for tourists. SK tech companies play by SK rules. Unfortunately, having all your eggs in one small nationalist basket like that makes your tech much less resilient than global tech.
No tech is 100% and in general, digital is less resilient than physical. Politicians do not understand this and throw a hissy fit when everything stops working, ordering companies to be perfect. But tech will always go down. Upgrades, fires, hackers, workmen, angry Australian wildlife, the CIA cutting your cables.
Always have an old school 'Plan B'. Pens, pencils etc. Carry cash to get you home, have some in for when the internet banking and e-payment systems tank, and employ people who can add up (or use a calculator). The more dependent we are on tech, the more damage there will be when (not if) it goes down.
I guess it depends on what their options were... If they could have had backup facilities in another location and chose not to (too expensive etc...) then it is his / thier own fault. If on the other hand they couldn't put it anywhere else then it's not really their fault. (I don't know how many data centres are in SK, I would be very surprised if it was just one though).
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