[HN Gopher] The unlimited storage that Google promised my univer...
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       The unlimited storage that Google promised my university is being
       discontinued
        
       Author : nonfamous
       Score  : 62 points
       Date   : 2022-02-08 20:59 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (twitter.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (twitter.com)
        
       | wolpoli wrote:
       | Recent events indicate that the G Suite team is under pressure to
       | cut storage cost. I wonder what's next.
        
       | pmontra wrote:
       | Do they have a contract with penalties for non delivery?
        
       | jakedata wrote:
       | Starfish is getting great traction in universities and labs. It
       | can do amazing things for storage analysis and migration across
       | filesystems and cloud buckets.
       | 
       | https://www.starfishstorage.com
        
       | d3nj4l wrote:
       | What _is_ it with Google pulling off the bait and switch on so
       | many products at once? Unlimited high quality photos for Pixel
       | owners, free workspace for personal /family users and unlimited
       | drive storage for education are all going paid over the span of
       | ~a year. It's almost like Google's exploding from within.
        
         | chaostheory wrote:
         | This isn't the first time, nor the last. They've been doing
         | this for years as part of their kill old products and replace
         | them with similar new one products culture. Google Music comes
         | to mind.
        
       | jsnell wrote:
       | This was announced a year ago [0], not with just a couple of
       | months of notice like the tweets claim. The announcement also
       | included the rationale.
       | 
       | [0] https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/education/google-
       | wo..., the "new storage policy" section.
        
       | 908B64B197 wrote:
       | I'm surprised they weren't relying on internal HPC resources.
       | Here Stanford has centralized almost everything to use
       | Sherlock[0], and apparently it's quite a nice environment.
       | 
       | [0] https://www.sherlock.stanford.edu/docs/
        
         | d3nj4l wrote:
         | A follow up tweet
         | (https://twitter.com/BWJones/status/1490802663499317250)
         | mentions that they are maintaining their own servers and don't
         | have to migrate data.
        
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