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Google’s cloud is spreading through new undersea cables
Today, Google announced that it will be adding three undersea cables, as well as five new Cloud Platform regions, to its infrastructure in 2018. The Netherlands and Montreal regions will open in Q1 2018, while Los Angeles, Hong Kong and Finland will follow. The three cables will connect Chile to Los Angeles, the US to Denmark and Ireland and Hong Kong to Guam, and are called, respectively, Curie, Havfrue and HK-G.
Evernote is getting faster thanks to Google's Cloud Platform
You might see Evernote's pages load faster than usual going forward, now that the service is almost fully done moving 3 petabytes of data to Google Cloud Platform. The team only has to transfer some user attachments before the migration is complete. Once that's done, then the service will have a new layer of protection called "encryption at rest," which protects your data even if it's not being accessed or moved. Further, GCP provides better disaster recovery planning that will make it easier for Evernote to recover data in case of a major mishap.
Apple will power part of iCloud with Google Cloud Platform
Google Cloud Platform has reportedly scored another major client after getting Spotify in February: Apple. Cupertino has struck a multi-million dollar deal with its staunchest rival to move part of iCloud and its other cloud-based offerings to GCP, according to Financial Times and CRN. Sources say the company's using a combination of Amazon Web Services, Microsoft's Azure and its own data centers at the moment. Neither corporation has confirmed the info yet, but CRN's sources told the publication that the deal is worth between $400 and $600 million.
Spotify is moving its data to Google Cloud Platform
Netflix might choose Amazon's cloud service over Google's, but Mountain View's Cloud Platform has scored a big customer of its own. Spotify has announced it's moving the technology that runs its music streaming service to Google Cloud Platform. According to The Wall Street Journal, Spotify will continue using Amazon's Simple Storage Service to store its music files. Further, it will still deliver music via its partner content-delivery services, such as Amazon's CloudFront. But it's migrating its core computing infrastructure (or its backend), which it uses to store and process data, from its own data centers to Google Cloud Platform. In fact, it's already done transferring 250,000 accounts out of 75 million users overall and will be done with the move in a year and a half.
Google can upload your thumb drives to its cloud storage (for a price)
Cloud services are convenient, because you can upload data anytime, anywhere, so long as you have an internet connection. But if you're a developer with terabytes upon terabytes of data, it could become a bit cumbersome. That's why Google has launched a service called "Offline Media Import/Export," which uploads data to its Cloud Storage product for developers who mail in their hard drives, USB flash drives and even tapes. The company first offered the service back in 2013, but it only used to accept hard drives for processing. To note, a third-party company will be handling the content transfers and not Google itself, and it definitely isn't free. According to TechCrunch, Mountain View used to charge $80 per disk during the preview period, but it's unclear how much each, say, thumb drive would cost for this expanded version. Google says it could take up to 100 days to upload one terabyte on a typical business DSL connection, though, so firms who need to their data imported ASAP might find it worth paying the extra $$$.
