The 7 Ps - OVHcloud as a case study

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The 7 Ps - a military adage  The version I am familiar with reads: "Proper Prior Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance"
Truer words were never spoken - from Reuters News Service:

Millions of websites offline after fire at French cloud services firm
A fire at a French cloud services firm has disrupted millions of websites, knocking out government agencies’ portals, banks, shops, news websites and taking out a chunk of the .FR web space, according to internet monitors.

The fire, which broke out on Wednesday shortly after midnight at OVHcloud, destroyed one of four data centres in Strasbourg, in eastern France, and damaged another, the company said.

There was no immediate explanation provided for the blaze, which erupted just two days after the French cloud computing firm kicked off plans for an initial public offering.

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.

“Firefighters were immediately on the scene but could not control the fire” in the affected data centre, founder and chairman Octave Klaba said on Twitter. He said the plan for the next couple of weeks would include rebuilding the centres’ equipment and checking their fiber optic connections.

This is just so wrong on so many different levels.  I sniff either massive French ego, gross incompetence or an insurance scam or some combination. No effective fire supression? Having a single point of failure? (redundency is KING) Two fires in different locations? French ego?

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 company said on Monday it had started the process for a potential IPO, without giving details.

Trying to grow too fast is a sure path to business failure.  Seeking to raise funds through an IPO is something you do after you are established.  Trying to compete with Alphabet, Amazon or MSFT is foolish - they are entrenched.  You are ten years too late. You need to offer something different - not compete against an entrenched product.

Something smells fishy here... Just sayin'

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