"Over 600 e-government services operated by South Korea's government are offline after a datacenter fire disrupted operations. The fire struck on Friday night at a datacenter operated by South Korea's National Information Resources Service. Korean media report that technicians replacing a lithium-ion battery inadvertently sparked a blaze. As is often the case with battery fires, firefighters struggled to control the blaze, which reached 234 batteries."
"On Saturday, Korea's government used the blog it hosts at local cloud service Naver to post a list of phone numbers citizens can use to contact government departments, because the fire also took out government email. By Sunday, government X accounts started to post advice on how to access services. Late on Sunday night South Korea's Ministry of the Interior and Safety said it had restored 30 services, leaving 617 offline."
"This incident will doubtless spawn innumerable social media posts asking why South Korea's government is so reliant on a single datacenter. One ray of hope is that NIRS - an entity created to run e-government services and the infrastructure to power it - operates a second datacenter. NIRS is also a user of VMware Cloud Foundation, Virtzilla's flagship private cloud package, so perhaps the agency will be able to swiftly restore virtual infrastructure."
A datacenter fire at the National Information Resources Service in South Korea left over 600 e-government services offline after technicians replacing a lithium-ion battery inadvertently sparked a blaze. Firefighters struggled to control the fire as it spread among 234 batteries. Government email was disrupted, prompting officials to publish phone contact lists on a Naver-hosted blog and to use government X accounts to post service-access advice. The Ministry of the Interior and Safety restored 30 services, reporting 617 remaining offline. NIRS operates a second datacenter and uses VMware Cloud Foundation, which may help restore virtual infrastructure. Separately, a US judge rejected DJI's lawsuit challenging its listing and dismissed claims of unfair competition.
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