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Yuritopiaposadism [none/use name]@hexbear.net to technology@hexbear.netEnglish · 1 day ago

PBS broadcaster loses access to 50TB of data comprising 70 years of TV history after contracted cloud storage vendor goes defunct

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PBS broadcaster loses access to 50TB of data comprising 70 years of TV history after contracted cloud storage vendor goes defunct

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PBS broadcaster loses access to 50TB of data comprising 70 years of TV history after contracted cloud storage vendor goes defunct — public TV channel sues Iron Mountain data center, which hosts archival materials, to ensure preservation
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This wouldn't have been an issue if the organization bought a $1,000 NAS and populated it with a few hard drives.
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    You just know some clueless c suite chucklehead got hoodwinked by a smooth sales presentation and FOMO over “the cloud is the future” into signing this contract.

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      Backups are always seen as inefficiencies by the bean counters. “What, you mean we have to pay 3X as much for storage for no reason!?”

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      Not just that, but the C suite probably ignored warnings of that vendor going defunct and didn’t copy/migrate/backup the data.

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      the reality is that the could is the future. as in “i could have done better smh”

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