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PBS station sues data center to retrieve 70-year archive after vendor failure

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A St. Louis PBS station, Nine PBS, is in a legal battle to retrieve a 70-year archive of cultural artifacts after its cloud storage provider, Open Source Storage (OSS), ceased operations. The station's data was physically hosted by Iron Mountain, which initially refused to release the archive, citing its contract was with OSS. A judge has now ordered Iron Mountain to cooperate with Nine PBS in accessing the data, emphasizing the station's ownership of the archive. AI

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PBS station sues data center to retrieve 70-year archive after vendor failure

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COVERAGE [2]

  1. Engadget TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] (Ian Carlos Campbell) ·

    Cloud storage is great until your vendor goes out of business

    A St. Louis PBS station is suing a data center provider to rescue a 70-year archive.

  2. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    Cloud storage is great until your vendor goes out of business A St. Louis PBS station is suing a data center provider to rescue a 70-year archive. https://www.

    Cloud storage is great until your vendor goes out of business A St. Louis PBS station is suing a data center provider to rescue a 70-year archive. https://www. engadget.com/2236717/cloud-sto rage-great-until-vendor-goes-out-of-business-nine-pbs/ # Tech # Technology # TechNews # A…

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