Google Cloud Storage Nearline Now Available to All, Offers 100PB Free Storage
by Manish Singh, 24 July 2015
Google's
Cloud Storage Nearline is now available to the general public. The
company has announced that the service, which offers low-cost premium
archiving and backing up of data, has moved out of beta. In order to
entice users, Google is offering storage of 100PB of space for free. Released
as a beta in March, Cloud Storage Nearline is aimed at data-heavy
businesses that need fast retrieval of data. The service competes with
Dropbox, Amazon's Glacier, Box, and OneDrive among others. Unlike its
competitors that take hours for handling such voluminous data, Google
says that Nearline could do it in seconds and minutes. Discussing Nearline's other features, Google
promises 99 percent uptime, on demand I/O operations, and lifecycle
management - consisting of features such as automated archival and
scheduled deletions. And, of course, there is the 100PB free of storage
for up to six months. Afterwards, users will have to pay $0.01 per GB
every month. "You now will be able to configure one-time data migrations, as well as schedule recurring data transfers," explained Avtandil Garakanidze, Google product manager, on a company blog post. The
company is also offering its on-demand I/O feature, which allows users
to increase I/O rate from typical read of 4MB per second, for free for
the first three months. To help users jump the boat, Nearline's
Cloud Storage Transfer feature allows one to import large amount of data
from HTTP/HTTPS services such as Amazon S3. Speaking of Amazon, Google
is also offering a total cost of ownership calculator to let users know
how much they will be saving by switching from Amazon Web Services./.
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