beep@piefed.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoPBS broadcaster loses access to 50TB of data comprising 70 years of TV history after contracted cloud storage vendor goes defunctcurrent.orgexternal-linkmessage-square97fedilinkarrow-up1522arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up1521arrow-down1external-linkPBS broadcaster loses access to 50TB of data comprising 70 years of TV history after contracted cloud storage vendor goes defunctcurrent.orgbeep@piefed.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square97fedilinkfile-text
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minus-squareGutterRat42@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·2 days agoThey are still around. This specific incident happened to a local PBS broadcaster, and it is only the local programming that was lost. Still sad, though
minus-squarewonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 day agoYeah, but relying on a shady outsourced cloud storage middleman provider was kind of a terrible decision
They are still around. This specific incident happened to a local PBS broadcaster, and it is only the local programming that was lost. Still sad, though
Yeah, but relying on a shady outsourced cloud storage middleman provider was kind of a terrible decision