Google on Thursday had its sights fixed firmly on Amazon as it launched its new, low-cost Nearline cloud storage service out of beta and into general availability.
Originally introduced with much fanfare in March, Cloud Storage Nearline now promises 99 percent uptime, on-demand I/O, lifecycle management and a broadly expanded partner ecosystem. Aiming to further sweeten the deal for companies using other providers, Google is offering the service with 100 free petabytes of storage — equivalent to 100 million gigabytes — for new users for up to six months.
