Re: Google "Nearline" service

[Matthew Turk <matthewturk@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Johns Towns and Readey,

JR: This is a pretty promising service! The discussion on hacker news was pretty interesting as well.

JT: The cost for retrieval is pretty low, and they obliquely compare quite favorably it to Glacier. Supposedly very, very fast retrieval speeds too.

-Matt

On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 11:44 AM, John Towns - NCSA Cog <jtowns@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

John-- I haven't looked at this and am not online currently, but the typical problem with these services is that they tend to be "store-once-read-never" optimized. Is there a fee for data retrieval? I like the notion of cloud storage for scientific data, but the cost are almost always prohibitive for large collections of data.Â

-John

On 3/11/2015 8:10 PM, John Readey wrote:

Hey,

Google just announced it's nearline storage service today:Âhttps://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/nearline-storageâ . ÂÂIt gives you storage at 1/3 the cost ($0.01/gb/month) with some extra latency (3 sec) when the data is requested.

I think that this would be perfect for storingÂmany scientific datasets in the cloud where much of the data is infrequently accessed. Â

What are this groups thoughts on the suitability Âof cloud storage for scientific data?

John