Nine PBS wins right to recover decades of local history

PBS Station's 50TB Data Crisis Exposes Perils of Single-Vendor Cloud Reliance

Nine PBS in St. Louis stands on the brink of permanent loss. Over 50 terabytes of unique programming and news footage spanning seven decades hang in legal limbo inside an Iron Mountain data center in Denver. The public broadcaster filed suit against the storage giant on July 28 after its contracted cloud provider simply vanished. But a Denver judge has now cleared a path forward. The ruling offers cautious hope. Yet the episode lays bare uncomfo…

Public TV channel sues Iron Mountain data center after its cloud storage vendor goes out of business, losing over 70 years of archival materials and programming

Nine PBS in St. Louis sues to recover roughly 50 terabytes of archive spanning seven decades after cloud vendor Open Source Storage went defunct and cut off access on the day its contract expiredIron Mountain says it never had access to the data, arguing it rents physical space to OSS and that handing over a third party's hardware would have breached its contracts and exposed other clients' dataA Denver judge has since ruled that Nine PBS owns t…

A Data Company Ghosted PBS and Took 70 Years of Archives With It

The left-wing propaganda machine you've been forced to fund for decades just lost 70 years of its archives. Now a PBS station is begging a court to save the data it couldn't bother to protect. What a Denver data giant is refusing to hand back will make you furious. A Taxpayer-Funded Network That Can't Even […]

Nine PBS wins right to recover decades of local history

A judge has ruled that St. Louis public television station Nine PBS can regain access to more than 50 terabytes of its archival material dating back to the 1950s.