Google’s Cloud Platform gets new a cold storage service read more at here www.spinonews.com/index.php/item/1352-google-s-cloud-platform-gets-new-a-cold-storage-service

Google announced new storage classes, data lifecycle management tools, improved availability and lower prices.

At an event in London today Google announced a couple of updates to its cloud storage services. The most important of these is the launch of Coldline, a new cold storage service for archival data.

Google automatically store customer’s data in multiple geographically dispersed data centers with the new Multi-Regional Storage tier, which costs 2.6 cents per gigabyte of data.

Google has introduced new storage classes for Google Cloud Storage. These offer customers a consistent API and data access performance for all of their hot and cold data, with simple-to-understand and highly competitive pricing.

 

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Coldline is a new Cloud Storage class designed for long-term archival and disaster recovery. Coldline provides fast and instant (millisecond) access to data and changes the way that companies think about storing and accessing their cold data.

Coldline also works well with Nearline to provide tiered storage for data as it cools.

All existing Standard storage buckets in one of these multi-region locations have been converted to this new Multi-Regional storage class.

To complement this multi-region storage service, Google is also now launching its Regional storage service. Data in this class is only stored in a single region, so it may not be quite as available as data stored in the multi-regional service.

 

To learn more about Cloud Storage and the new storage classes, visit Google cloud blog.