Google had its sights fixed firmly on Amazon Thursday as it launched its new, low-cost Nearline cloud storage service out of beta and into general availability.
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Google says that Nearline has a faster retrieval speed than competing solutions, making Google Nearline stand out among the crowd.
Now that the service is out of beta, Google considers it to be ready for production and its SLA will cover.
In order to win over the archiving business of organizations worldwide, Google Nearline affords enterprises the ability to claim up to 100 Petabytes of Nearline storage for up 6 months. Google promises an uptime of 99%. The most important of these in on-demand I/O.
By comparison, Google Cloud standard storage (amid many other pricing options, structures and schemes) started at just over two cents per gigabyte per month.
“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.
Google is also using this launch to make its Cloud Storage Transfer Service (previously known as the GCS Online Cloud Import service) generally available.
Taking aim directly at Amazon, Google has even created a total cost of ownership (TCO) calculator to estimate how much can be saved using Google’s cloud storage rather than Amazon Web Services.
Nearline’s performance will be evaluated in the near future, but judging by its clearly superior features, the assistance they are offering customers to switch to their platform, as part of a very assertive advertisement campaign, it has all the chances of winning the market over shortly. After that, you also have to maintain at least 1PB in Nearline for 12 months after an initial 3-month period.
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Moving any amount of data between different providers, though, can quickly get complicated, so Google has now signed up a couple of new partners that will help their customers move to Nearline and/or have integrated Nearline into their services. Actifio, Pixit Media, Unitrends, CloudBerry Lab and Filepicker will join Veritas/Symantec, NetApp, Iron Mountain and Geminare in providing a wider range of services to customers.
