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Judge orders Iron Mountain to hand over devices holding PBS station's 50TB of data
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A judge ruled that Iron Mountain must hand over physical devices containing Nine PBS's 50TB of archival data, and Nine PBS must find a third party to retrieve it within 30 days.
This case shows that cloud storage contracts can leave data inaccessible when a provider goes defunct, even if the physical hardware is in another company's data center. Engineers should consider what happens to data if a vendor disappears and whether contractual access rights are enforceable against downstream infrastructure providers.
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Nine PBS lost access to 50TB of data when its contract with OSS expired and OSS ceased operations.
A judge ordered Iron Mountain to hand over physical devices, but Nine PBS must find a third party to retrieve data within 30 days.
Iron Mountain argues it only provides physical infrastructure and cannot access data without a court order.
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