Yuritopiaposadism [none/use name]@hexbear.net to technology@hexbear.netEnglish · 1 month agoPBS broadcaster loses access to 50TB of data comprising 70 years of TV history after contracted cloud storage vendor goes defunctwww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square51linkfedilinkarrow-up1120arrow-down10cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.worldnews@lemmy.worldhackernews@lemmy.bestiver.sepcmasterrace@lemmy.world
arrow-up1120arrow-down1external-linkPBS broadcaster loses access to 50TB of data comprising 70 years of TV history after contracted cloud storage vendor goes defunctwww.tomshardware.comYuritopiaposadism [none/use name]@hexbear.net to technology@hexbear.netEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square51linkfedilinkcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.worldnews@lemmy.worldhackernews@lemmy.bestiver.sepcmasterrace@lemmy.world
minus-squarePKMKII [none/use name]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up47·edit-21 month agoYou just know some clueless c suite chucklehead got hoodwinked by a smooth sales presentation and FOMO over “the cloud is the future” into signing this contract.
minus-squareunitedwithme@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up36·1 month agoNot just that, but the C suite probably ignored warnings of that vendor going defunct and didn’t copy/migrate/backup the data.
minus-squareChana [none/use name]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up30·1 month agoBackups are always seen as inefficiencies by the bean counters. “What, you mean we have to pay 3X as much for storage for no reason!?”
minus-squaresegfault11 [she/her, any]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·1 month agothe reality is that the could is the future. as in “i could have done better smh”
You just know some clueless c suite chucklehead got hoodwinked by a smooth sales presentation and FOMO over “the cloud is the future” into signing this contract.
Not just that, but the C suite probably ignored warnings of that vendor going defunct and didn’t copy/migrate/backup the data.
Backups are always seen as inefficiencies by the bean counters. “What, you mean we have to pay 3X as much for storage for no reason!?”
the reality is that the could is the future. as in “i could have done better smh”