Cat videos are extra essential.
Posted on 03/15/2022 7:13:55 PM PDT by algore
Russia began a military invasion of the country of Ukraine on February 24, which is still ongoing and prompted started a chain of sanctions against Russia. Google, Meta (Facebook’s parent company), Apple, and many other tech companies are in the process of winding down operations in Russia, mostly due to sanctions enforced by Europe and the United States. Russia now has another problem on its hands: the country is running out of storage for cloud services.
The Russian news outlet Kommersant, citing government sources, is reporting that Russia is rapidly running out of domestic data storage for servers and other critical IT equipment. Russia’s Ministry of Digital Transformation reportedly held a meeting on March 9 with representatives Sberbank, MTS, Oxygen, Rostelecom, Atom-Data, Croc, and Yandex. One source told Kommersant that the departure of foreign cloud services like Google and Amazon increased demand on local storage, and the country expects that capacity to run out within the next two months. The shortage could lead to non-essential services shutting down, such as cloud gaming, music streaming, and video sharing platforms.
Russia is also reportedly having difficulty importing equipment from China, due to increased prices (the value of Russia’s currency is tanking) and disputed logistics. One source reportedly told Kommersant (translated), “Two truckloads of servers from a foreign vendor entered the country, but they refuse to give them to us, citing sanctions.” Ironically, Huawei has supposedly stopped shipments to Russia until March 26, which itself has been negatively affected by US sanctions over the past few years.
Russia is exploring a few options for the data storage, including seizing computers from companies leaving the country
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I am not anti-cloud but keep in mind you don't own it, and it not secure.
The other enemies of Big Tech don’t understand how fast the bullseye can shift from the Russians and the Canadian truckers - to THEM.
I’m sure Russia will improve their data deletion procedures.
Cat videos first.
Russian Dash Cam auto accident videos.
Reliable sources say that Russia is about ready to split in pieces and sink into the center of the earth...sarc
Cat videos are extra essential.
Hire Hillary Cabbage to wipe data for them. Free up some space
Sounds like a business opportunity to me. Learn how to be self reliant and you’ll be better off for it.
So, Have Seagate, Western Digital, Toshiba, PNY, OCZ, etc all embargoed selling hard drives and SSDs to Russia?
Getting kicked off the ‘cloud’ and storing their own data could be a blessing in disguise.
An endless source of entertainment. I never seem to get tire of watching them.
And Lord knows there's a cubic bazillion of them.
Is that supposed to be Gary-7 and Isis?
Now that would have been a memorable Dr Who episode if the producers had gotten CBC/paramount’s permission to use the character.
Another interesting face off would have been Gary 7 vs Q!(Gary 7 decides he’s pissed off with Q’s meddling with humans...throw in a few borg and you have a real rousing show!)
yup! and one of the Dr Who(s). The pic should have included Teri Garr to make it “complete”.
Hey...where’s Terri Garr?
I NEVER use a cloud-option of any kind. It’s just another opportunity for BIG SM (and our government) to rifle through your data.
Did you do this pic or see it somewhere else?....I got a good chuckle out of it!
You would go blind, as I almost did, to see what she looks like now. Very hefty.
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She has medical issues which cause the weight gain.
In 2002, Garr announced that she had been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, the symptoms of which had affected her ability to perform beginning in the 1990s.[
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