TV Station Sues Data Center Firm over Fears It Could Lose Access to 70 Years of Archive Footage

Nine PBS Fights To Recover 70 Years Of Historic Footage After Cloud Storage Provider Allegedly Cuts Off Access

What happens when you suddenly lose access to the cloud? That question is at the center of a lawsuit involving Nine PBS, the St. Louis, MO-based PBS member station, and Open Source Storage (OSS), a cloud storage provider that allegedly cut off access to a massive collection of historical footage spanning more than 70 years. Cloud storage has become an essential tool for organizations and individuals to preserve everything from everyday business …

TV station sues data center firm over fears it could lose access to 70 years of archive footage

Iron Mountain dragged into dispute between broadcaster and its cloud provider

TV Station in a Fight to Retrieve Its Archive After Cloud Company Went Bust

A local TV station is in a messy situation after the cloud company it was using to store 70 years' worth of archival material vanished.

PBS loses 70 years of TV archives to cloud mishap

What happens when seven decades of television history suddenly become inaccessible because a cloud storage company disappears? That is the nightmare now facing Nine PBS, which has reportedly lost access to more than 50TB of archival material spanning 70 years after its storage provider, Open Source Storage, went out of business. The archive includes programs, videos, photographs, and other pieces of St. Louis history, leaving the public broadcas…

Judge clears Nine PBS to retrieve 70 years of archival TV data — court rules station owns 50TB of data in Iron Mountain servers after host went under

The fate of 70 years of TV history (50TB) was the balance, but things are looking more positive now.

A PBS channel lost access to over 50TB archive data, putting 70 years of TV history in limbo

70 years of TV history hangs in the balance after a PBS channel suddenly lost access to more than 50TB of archival data. Read more...