PBS Station Sues to Regain Access to 70 Years of Archival TV History
THE SO WHAT
A single cloud provider failure wiping out access to 70 years of TV archives is a blunt reminder that ‘in the cloud’ is not the same as ‘durable.’ If your business depends on irreplaceable data—media, logs, models, IP—treat storage vendors as failure domains and design multi-home, verifiable backups now.
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