Microsoft limits institutional cloud storage space for environmental reasons
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Re: Microsoft limits institutional cloud storage space for environmental reasons
#2Interesting, I personally use my institutional OneDrive sparingly, but I would love to see my professors and IT staff scramble to switch from 1TB of cloud storage to 20GB. I have always opposed selling everything to MS and nobody has ever cared to offer alternatives (only Moodle and it's badly configured lol)
Re: Microsoft limits institutional cloud storage space for environmental reasons
#3not sure why you'd go for the cloud for this, that seems misguided altogether.
To expand on this: A few TB diskspace are dirt cheap.
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#4Incredible.
McGill really went all-in on cloud storage without ANY local backups. An institution. Wow.
I bet next you’ll tell me they’re gonna open a consumer Backblaze account.
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#5Is that the same Microsoft which is throwing money into running environmentally destructive AI workloads as their key business driver?
Re: Microsoft limits institutional cloud storage space for environmental reasons
#6Incredible. McGill really went all-in on cloud storage without ANY local backups. An institution. Wow. I bet next you’ll tell me they’re gonna open a consumer Backblaze account.
This is pretty standard in corporations these days. My org did the same. The assumption is that if it’s not in confluence or GitHub then it’s not worth keeping this goes in one drive.
It is quite frankly insane.
Re: Microsoft limits institutional cloud storage space for environmental reasons
#7not sure why you'd go for the cloud for this, that seems misguided altogether. To expand on this: A few TB diskspace are dirt cheap.
just use rsync?
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#8How self sacrificing humble gesture /s
Re: Microsoft limits institutional cloud storage space for environmental reasons
#9It sounds like it's McGill asking
"And this is why we [McGill] are asking you to reduce the data stored in your OneDrive and in your Outlook email."
https://www.mcgill.ca/polling/channels/news/important-onedri...
But, amazingly, Microsoft did argue this nonsense:
1. security risk of storing files
2. environmental impact
3. ability for Microsoft to innovate more by deleting your stuff
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/education/products/microsoft...
Ministry of Truth...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministries_in_Nineteen_Eighty-...
Re: Microsoft limits institutional cloud storage space for environmental reasons
#10Apple cut the phone charger for environmental reasons too.
It always has to be the end user who sacrifices for the environment.