Google has turned off a huge commitment in a very important sector. The best lesson, though, is that if you're not directly involved, you most likely haven't heard that this was going on at all. Data only exists if it's in three places, and backups only exist if they've been recovered. If you're a small outfit, you may need to be your own admin, but you'll have nobody else to blame if you don't do your disaster recovery drill. The big AWS event: 120 announcements but nothing has changed.VMware 2FA flaw can divulge that vital second credential to malicious actors.Google sours on legacy G Suite freeloaders, demands fee or flee.Users sound off as new Google Workspace for Education storage limits near.Say that the free tier is good for one leg of a storage strategy, with another being on-prem and the third a cheap, slow data lake, and you can keep going through a lot of disruption, including the permanent removal of one of those three and the temporary failure of another. It was very tempting for academics to assume they'd have no storage costs, either for hardware or management, when costing a project for a grant application. If you're not thinking two steps ahead, no matter what you're doing, you're vulnerable, especially with storage. One Twitter researcher put it like this: if you're thinking two steps ahead, this will not be a surprise. But there was lots of fraud, with 'unlimited' Google accounts changing hands online for a tenner or so, and while a lab needing 100TB might have been rare in 2014, those rules of engagement have changed too. As students advance, their use of a particular educational account may increase in size but reduce in duration, which would seem to naturally limit Google's exposure.

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