Google Cloud Storage Nearline Room for Improvement

Darasimi Ajewole - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineer at Formplus

As a lead developer, I struggled with the documentation for GCP. This could be improved by being made more clear.

Also, the interface for managing file storage in the buckets could be improved, together with improved search and filter options.

For the next release, I would like to see the solution behave more like a regular file-based system. Google Cloud Storage depends on OS, or it's supposed to be on Google Drive or another storage service. Google Storage files are sometimes very different. The solution should be expanded to be like a file-based system so that you can build a fast tool that stores files in Google Drive.

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Victor Oladejo - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Engineer at Electronics Collections Group

The suggestion for improvement primarily revolves around cost efficiency. Currently, Google Cloud Storage Nearline charges a minimum of thirty days for data access. I propose a more flexible approach. Instead of a fixed thirty-day minimum charge, there could be a programmatic adjustment based on data access patterns. For instance, if Google Cloud notices that certain data is no longer frequently accessed, they could automatically adjust the billing. When data isn't actively used, the charges for access to that data should decrease. This approach would ensure that users are billed fairly for the actual access they require, especially when data access patterns vary over time.

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AmitKumar36 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution Architect at HCL Technologies

They should provide more options or flexibility in terms of pricing.

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JO
SCRUM Master at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

They need a better, more visual, user interface for folders and files. Right now, you can see a list of five. You need to see some details, more folders, and be able to drag and drop the folders. That would be useful.

Those new to GoogleCloud may struggle a bit with the setup.

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RM
Cloud Engineer at Freelancer

The UI could be a little bit more effective. Now, the UI is just a white background, but it's really helpful if there are options to change the theme. I prefer that.  

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DG
CEO at gsc

The solution needs to offer better System Information and Event Management (SEIM). I'd like to discover how we could implement something like that within Google's cloud.

We are currently running the solution, but if I want to have a better security strategy, I know I have to do something else. It doesn't really offer that as part of the solution.

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DG
CEO at gsc

Nearline security could be better. The solution could integrate better with SEIM tools. We need to improve anything related to security, whether we're talking about IT, the technology platform on the Cloud, etc.

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NR
Vice President at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

The pricing could be improved. It's completely non-competitive at this time.

We have some issues around date/time conversions. It requires a little bit of tweaking to get things done. You can't seem to import a date/time field into SQL.

The solution needs more GUI support.

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Google Cloud Storage Nearline
March 2024
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