Source: Hacker News
Article note: Man, UK got hit by Google ramping educational storage costs a couple years ago, and nudged everyone on to Microsoft storage. It sounds like this is really McGill being goofy, but if it becomes a general thing it'll be ugly.
Academic storage capacity is a huge problem because there are rules requiring data retention, and limiting where it can happen, so there are relatively non-technical users with sometimes terabytes of stuff that has to be housed on university-approved storage for extended periods of time.
It'll be interesting to see what happens if there's another round of the same bullshit from cloud providers, as it'll pretty fully demonstrate that the whole cloud situation is largely rentseeking. Maybe we'll go back to hosting our own storage appliances instead of renting. Or just losing data stored on media tucked in desk drawers until the last person who knows about it leaves.
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