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CLOUD-DIGITAL-LEADER · Question #323

Your organization is migrating to Google Cloud. As part of that effort, it needs to move terabytes of data from on-premises file servers to Cloud Storage. Your organization wants the migration…

The correct answer is A. Storage Transfer Service. Storage Transfer Service is Google's managed service for automating the transfer of large amounts of data into Cloud Storage from on-premises sources, other cloud providers, or HTTP/S endpoints. It supports transfers over an existing Dedicated Interconnect connection and is…

Data Migration and Transfer

Question

Your organization is migrating to Google Cloud. As part of that effort, it needs to move terabytes of data from on-premises file servers to Cloud Storage. Your organization wants the migration process to be automated and to be managed by Google. Your organization has an existing Dedicated Interconnect connection that it wants to use. Which Google Cloud product or feature should your organization use?

Options

  • AStorage Transfer Service
  • BMigrate for Anthos
  • CBigQuery Data Transfer Service
  • DTransfer Appliance

How the community answered

(46 responses)
  • A
    78% (36)
  • B
    13% (6)
  • C
    2% (1)
  • D
    7% (3)

Explanation

Storage Transfer Service is Google's managed service for automating the transfer of large amounts of data into Cloud Storage from on-premises sources, other cloud providers, or HTTP/S endpoints. It supports transfers over an existing Dedicated Interconnect connection and is fully managed by Google. Transfer Appliance (D) is a physical hardware device used when internet/interconnect bandwidth is insufficient - it does not use an existing Dedicated Interconnect. Migrate for Anthos (B) migrates VM workloads, and BigQuery Data Transfer Service (C) moves data into BigQuery from SaaS sources.

Topics

#Data Migration#Cloud Storage#Hybrid Connectivity#Managed Services

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