{"id":40094,"date":"2019-12-13T11:53:14","date_gmt":"2019-12-13T11:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/?guid=5143b7b0e34decaff894a1568c0ff44b"},"modified":"2019-12-13T11:53:14","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T11:53:14","slug":"google-transfer-service-launched-for-those-handling-enormous-data-migrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/google-transfer-service-launched-for-those-handling-enormous-data-migrations\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Transfer Service launched for those handling enormous data migrations"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n Keumars Afifi-Sabet<\/a><\/span>
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Google Cloud Platform (GCP)<\/a> has developed a software service to help organisations handle massive data transfers between on-premise locations and the cloud faster and more efficiently than existing tools.<\/p>\n

The tool has been designed for organisations that need to undergo large-scale data transfers in the region of billions of files<\/a>, or petabytes of data, between physical sites to Google Cloud storage in one fell swoop.<\/p>\n

GCP\u2019s Transfer Service for on-premises data<\/a>, released in beta, is also a product that allows businesses to move files without needing to write their own transfer software or invest in a paid-for transfer platform.<\/p>\n

Google claims custom software options can be unreliable, slow and insecure as well as being difficult to maintain.<\/p>\n

Businesses can use the service by installing a Docker container, with an agent for Linux<\/a>, on data centre computers, before the service co-ordinates the agents to transfer data safely to GCP storage.<\/p>\n

The system makes the transfer process<\/a> more efficient by validating the integrity of the data in real-time as it gradually shifts to the cloud, with an agent using as much available bandwidth to reduce transfer times.<\/p>\n

The data transfer service is a larger-scale version of tools such as gsutil, a cloud transfer service also developed by Google, which is unable to cope with the scale of data that Transfer Service has been designed to handle.<\/p>\n

The firm has recommended that only businesses with a network speed faster than 300Mbps use its Transfer Service, with gsutil sufficing for those with slower speeds.<\/p>\n

Customers also need a Docker-supported 64-bit Linux server or virtual machine that can access the data to be transferred, as well as a POSIX (Portable Operating System Interface)-compliant source.<\/p>\n

The product is aimed squarely at enterprise users, and comes several weeks after the company announced a set of migration partnerships<\/a> aimed at customers running workloads with the likes of SAP, VMware and Microsoft. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Keumars Afifi-Sabet<\/p>\n

13 Dec, 2019 <\/p>\n

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) has developed a software service to help organisations handle massive data transfers between on-premise locations and the cloud faster and more efficiently tha…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":433,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/433"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40094"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40096,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40094\/revisions\/40096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}