back to article Archive storage comes to Google Cloud: Will it give AWS and Azure the cold shoulder?

Google has opened the freezer on general availability of its Archive class cloud storage, designed for data that is stored for more than a year and accessed less than once every 12 months. Archive Storage, which was previewed in April last year, is the fourth tier of Google cloud storage options. Note that this is programmatic …

  1. elkster88
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    Words to live by...

    "All storage is vulnerable to physical decay, fire or other calamity, or mis-configured systems that mean the data stored is not what you hoped it was. ®"

    By law, that wording should be engraved in the largest font size that will fit, on every single data storage device sold.

    And hopefully burned into the forehead of anyone who places critical data in a single place, such as a laptop drive, and who then whinges about the consequences when it inevitably gets destroyed due to any one of a number of foreseeable causes.

  2. Carpet Deal 'em
    WTF?

    Since the property was purchased by our client, the state, and small activist groups, have endeavored to seize our client’s private property without compensation. While such tactics are commonplace in communist systems, they have never been tolerated in the American system where the US Constitution precludes the government from simply taking private property and giving it to the public.

    Did he seriously manage to say this with a straight face? It'd take an awfully ignorant lawyer to not know how ancient easement is.

    1. Throatwarbler Mangrove Silver badge
      FAIL

      Wrong thread, although somewhat hilarious when applied to cloud storage.

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