Google launches new cloud storage service

Google launches new cloud storage service

PanARMENIAN.Net - Google is launching a new cloud storage service that has the potential to change how many companies, ranging from startups to enterprises, view online storage, TechCrunch reports.

With Google Cloud Storage Nearline, businesses can store the data they or their customers don’t frequently need to access (think backups, log files or older photos), for $0.01 per gigabyte at rest.

As Google director of product management for the Cloud Platform team Tom Kershaw told TechCrunch earlier this week, he believes that the gap between the cost of online and offline storage has to decrease.

“We wanted to create a product that made it economical to never throw anything away,” Kershaw said. “Google is pretty good at storing things, but every organization should be able to keep its data around.”

According to Kershaw, Google is able to offer this competitive price — which is on par with Amazon’s Glacier — because it is able to host all of its data on a single system, no matter whether it’s online or “nearline.” This commonality of systems, he argues, is pretty unusual.

Historically, storage companies built two different systems, but the hardest and most costly thing about offline storage is actually moving the data between these two systems. On the backend then, Nearline uses the same system as the rest of Google’s storage products, with exactly the same encryption and other security features. It also shares its APIs with Google’s standard online storage service, TechCrunch says.

Google expects that many of its early customers will use the service primarily to store photos, videos and documents. Many companies pay a lot to keep these online, just in case a user ever needs them.

To reach an even wider market, Google has partnered with a number of storage companies, including Veritas/Symantec, NetApp, Geminare and Iron Mountain. While all of these will get Google’s new service in front of a lot of enterprise customers, the Iron Mountain relationship is interesting because that company will allow users to send in their hard drives and have them securely uploaded to Nearline.

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