PBS Sues Data Center To Reclaim 50TB Of TV History Spanning 70 Years
The St. Louis-based PBS station, Nine PBS, has filed and won a lawsuit demanding access to its archival data from Iron Mountain, a third party who owns the servers for defunct cloud provider Open Source Storage. Iron Mountain has been ordered to cooperate "in any way possible" with Nine PBS to deliver the cache of archival materials estimated at over 50 terabytes, containing 70 years of broadcasts and more.
While Iron Mountain may not immediately sound sympathetic in this story, there is at least a reason why a court order was needed here. The main and very valid concern on Iron Mountain's part is that Nine PBS' data may have been lumped together with other former Open Source Storage clients, and the secure storage firm wants to honor OSS' contractual obligations to those clients.
Keep in mind that Iron Mountain is one of the largest enterprise storage providers in the...
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