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
Public broadcaster Nine PBS lost access to 50TB of archival footage spanning 70 years after its cloud storage vendor went defunct; the station is now suing Iron Mountain, the data center hosting the files, to recover the data.
Public broadcaster Nine PBS has lost access to over 50TB of archival data—spanning 70 years of TV history—after its cloud storage provider went defunct. The channel is now suing Iron Mountain, the data center hosting the files, to ensure preservation. The data center cannot simply hand over the materials because the files are legally owned by the defunct vendor, even though Nine PBS is the ultimate owner.