PBS station fears losing 50TB of data after being ghosted by cloud storage provider
Summary
A PBS affiliate Nine PBS fears losing 50TB of archival data after its cloud storage provider OSS went defunct and Iron Mountain allegedly refused access. A court ordered Iron Mountain to hand over physical devices containing the data and to assist in retrieval via a third party. The data include decades of footage and news, highlighting risks of third-party storage and the need for robust data preservation strategies for media organizations.