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.
  • Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    4 days ago

    public TV channel sues Iron Mountain data center, which hosts archival materials, to ensure preservation

    Ahhh yes suing the business that’s gone bankrupt I’m sure that always works.

    • EmmaGoldman [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      3 days ago

      Iron Mountain did not go bankrupt, a middleman company called OSS did. Iron Mountain had a contract with OSS to store the data, and can’t release it to anyone else without a court order. Nine PBS is suing Iron Mountain to get that court order so they can legally retrieve their data.