Comment by lumost

Usually these mandates are made by someone who evaluates “risks.” Third party risks are evaluated under the assumption that everything will be done sensibly in the 1p scenario, to boot, the 1p option will be cheaper as disk drives etc are only a fraction of total cost.

Reality hits later when budget cuts/constrained salaries prevent the maintenance of a competent team. Or the proposed backup system is deemed as excessively risk averse and the money can’t be spared.