[Music] hi today i'm here to tell you all about google cloud's transfer appliance an easy secure and performant way to physically ship your data to the cloud transfer appliance was created for customers needing to transfer large amounts of data to google cloud large-scale data transfers done over the wire require network connections with sufficient bandwidth and some customers aren't able to procure or dedicate that kind of bandwidth without disrupting their critical business operations when an online data transfer isn't feasible preferable or efficient the transfer appliance is the best way to make a large data transfer but
how does it work we ship you an appliance you upload your data you ship the appliance back to a google upload facility and voila your data is available in google cloud the appliance itself is about the size of a suitcase and is easy to move exactly where you need it and transfer appliance comes in two capacities 40 terabytes and 300 terabytes and anytime we're talking about moving large amounts of data security is the number one priority this device is tamper resistant and sealed during shipment and is designed to protect your data transfer appliance was designed
so that everything you need is on board the device itself when preparing to upload your data to the appliance you'll connect it to your network the on-device display and included setup guide will walk you through the process to start power on the device configure for your network begin capturing data once your transfer is complete the device is ready to ship back to a google upload facility and for customers who prefer to place inside a data center rack we have a rackable form factor available that can be placed on a shelf once we receive it we
upload the data into your cloud storage bucket then wipe the appliance when we're done your data is now available in google cloud now you can take advantage of our powerful analytics or machine learning tools or simply backup your data in case you need it later transfer appliance is a great fit for data collection from researchers vendors or other sites to google cloud data replication take advantage of hybrid architectures and keep your on-prem infrastructure while also experimenting with the powerful data analysis tools google offers data migration move large amounts of existing data to ultra low cost
archival storage to see if the transfer appliance is right for you check out cloud.google.com
