{"id":4288,"date":"2012-05-21T16:41:46","date_gmt":"2012-05-21T21:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=4288"},"modified":"2012-05-21T16:50:26","modified_gmt":"2012-05-21T21:50:26","slug":"cloud-mega-uploads-arent-easy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=4288","title":{"rendered":"Cloud mega-uploads aren&#8217;t easy"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Google and Microsoft don&#8217;t offer formal data ingestion services to help users get lots of data into the cloud, and neither seems set to do so anytime soon. Quite how would-be users take advantage of the hundreds of terabytes both offer in the cloud is therefore a bit of a mystery.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2012\/05\/21\/cloud_ingestion\/\">Cloud mega-uploads aren&#8217;t easy \u2022 The Register<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I also have been wondering about this for my measly 2gigs I want to upload to a cyberlocker.\u00a0 My upload speed is more or less 30KBytes\/s or ~100M\/hour.\u00a0 Therefore 2G upload would take 20 some hours which is kind of impractical.\u00a0 The article covers import\/export services of various cloud providers.\u00a0 I&#8217;m interested in Rackspace&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Rackspace offers a similar service, dubbed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rackspace.com\/knowledge_center\/index.php\/Cloud_Files_Bulk_Import_FAQ\" target=\"_blank\">Cloud Files Bulk Import<\/a>. Optus, the Australian arm of telecoms giant Singtel, will happily offer a similar service. Australian cloud Ninefold does likewise, branding it <a href=\"http:\/\/info.ninefold.com\/sneakernet.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Sneakernet&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Good old sneakernet is back.\u00a0 That brings the memories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google and Microsoft don&#8217;t offer formal data ingestion services to help users get lots of data into the cloud, and neither seems set to do so anytime soon. Quite how would-be users take advantage of the hundreds of terabytes both &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=4288\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[287],"tags":[67,637,636],"class_list":["post-4288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interfaces","tag-cloud-computing","tag-rackspace","tag-sneakernet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4288"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4293,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4288\/revisions\/4293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}