“Widening the net to an even larger swath of business types and sizes, Google Cloud Platform is adding a new line of storage services with the debut of Google Cloud Storage Nearline. Nearline is framed as a polar opposite alternative to tiered storage being that Google’s new storage option promises virtually immediate access to stored data within seconds (as fast as three seconds) versus hours that could be experienced between online and offline storage infrastructures.” [1]
[1] By Rachel King for Between the Lines