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A comment on Evernote’s transition to Google Cloud Platform.

Re:Evernote’s transition to Google Cloud Platform by unix-junkie on Thursday February 09, 2017 @02:46AM (#13605357)
The Stanford HPC team reported last year having sent more than 2PB to Google drive using Lustre/HSM. This was using the public API and the fact that gdrive is free for *.edu sites.

See https://www.eofs.eu/_media/events/lad16/07_thiell_cheap_n_de... (slides) and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbE0nl5V8WE

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Re:Evernote’s transition to Google Cloud Platform by khc on Thursday February 09, 2017 @03:26AM (#13605464)
2PB costs 6 figures for regular GCS a year, I probably wouldn't rely on Google to continue to provide that for free.
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Re:Evernote’s transition to Google Cloud Platform by superdaniel on Thursday February 09, 2017 @02:47PM (#13610224)
Wow. I wonder how many eyebrows at google that has raised
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