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Data Transfer
Transfer Appliance
Transfer Appliance is a high-capacity storage device that enables you to transfer and securely ship your data to a Google upload facility, where we upload your data to Cloud Storage. For Transfer Appliance capacities and requirements, refer to the .
Data transfer speeds
With a typical network bandwidth of 100 Mbps, 300 terabytes of data takes about 9 months to upload. However, with Transfer Appliance, you can receive the appliance and capture 300 terabytes of data in under 25 days. Your data can be accessed in Cloud Storage within another 25 days, all without consuming any outbound network bandwidth.
Example use cases
Data collection
If you need to transfer data from researchers, vendors, or other sites to Google Cloud, Transfer Appliance can move that data for you. Once transferred to or , your data is accessible via our Dataflow processing service for machine learning projects. Google Cloud Machine Learning Engine is a managed service that enables you to easily build machine learning models, that work on any type of data, of any size.
Data replication
Transfer Appliance can assist you in taking advantage of hybrid architectures, supporting current operations with existing on-premises infrastructure while experimenting with the cloud. By transferring a copy of your data to Google Cloud, you can decommission duplicate datasets, test cloud infrastructure, and expose your data to machine learning and analysis.
Data migration
Offline data transfer is suited for moving large amounts of existing backup images and archives to Cloud Storage, which can be stored in ultra low-cost, highly-durable, and highly available storage classes such as . For structured and unstructured data sets, whether they are small and frequently accessed or huge and rarely referenced, Google offers solutions like Cloud Storage, BigQuery, and Dataproc to store and analyze that data.
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