Cloud Computing: Google Nearline Storage Now Generally Available

July 23, 2015 Off By David

Grazed from CIOToday. Author: Jef Cozza.

A new data backup and recovery service by Google is out of beta and ready for prime time. Google Cloud Storage Nearline, which the company first announced in March, is available to enterprises looking for online storage for data that does not need to be frequently accessed.

The company also said it would offer new customers a “Switch and Save” program, providing 100 petabytes of storage free for six months to companies that migrate their documents over from existing cloud storage services such as Amazon Web Services’ Glacier storage system…

Massive Storage, Rapid Access

“The goal of Google Cloud Storage Nearline is to provide organizations with a simple, low-cost, fast-response storage service with quick data backup, retrieval and access,” Avtandil Garakanidze, product manager for the Google Cloud Platform, said on the company’s blog…

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