Google Cloud Storage vs Portworx

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Google Cloud Storage vs Portworx: What are the differences?

## Key Differences between Google Cloud Storage and Portworx

Google Cloud Storage is a scalable, fully-managed object storage service while Portworx is a container data management platform designed for enterprises.

1. **Deployment**: Google Cloud Storage is deployed on Google's infrastructure and does not require managing any underlying hardware. In contrast, Portworx needs to be deployed within Kubernetes clusters and requires more management and configuration.

2. **Features**: Google Cloud Storage primarily focuses on storing and retrieving data, whereas Portworx offers a wider range of features including data protection, disaster recovery, encryption, and data mobility.

3. **Integration**: Google Cloud Storage integrates seamlessly with other Google Cloud services like BigQuery, Dataflow, and ML Engine. On the other hand, Portworx integrates tightly with Kubernetes and provides storage and data management functionalities specifically for containerized applications.

4. **Scalability**: Google Cloud Storage is highly scalable and can handle massive amounts of data storage efficiently. While Portworx also offers scalability, it is more tailored towards scaling data management within Kubernetes environments.

5. **Cost**: Google Cloud Storage follows a pay-as-you-go pricing model based on usage, storage class, and network egress. Portworx, being a software license-based product, has different pricing tiers based on features and support levels.

6. **Use Cases**: Google Cloud Storage is ideal for storing objects, files, backups, and media content in a cloud-native manner, whereas Portworx is better suited for providing persistent storage solutions for stateful applications running in containers, especially in enterprise environments.

In Summary, Google Cloud Storage is a managed object storage service with seamless integration into Google Cloud services, while Portworx is a container data management platform tailored for Kubernetes environments.
Decisions about Google Cloud Storage and Portworx

We choose Backblaze B2 because it makes more sense for storing static assets.

We admire Backblaze's customer service & transparency, plus, we trust them to maintain fair business practices - including not raising prices in the future.

Lower storage costs means we can keep more data for longer, and lower bandwidth means cache misses don't cost a ton.

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Gabriel Pa

We offer our customer HIPAA compliant storage. After analyzing the market, we decided to go with Google Storage. The Nodejs API is ok, still not ES6 and can be very confusing to use. For each new customer, we created a different bucket so they can have individual data and not have to worry about data loss. After 1000+ customers we started seeing many problems with the creation of new buckets, with saving or retrieving a new file. Many false positive: the Promise returned ok, but in reality, it failed.

That's why we switched to S3 that just works.

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    What is Google Cloud Storage?

    Google Cloud Storage allows world-wide storing and retrieval of any amount of data and at any time. It provides a simple programming interface which enables developers to take advantage of Google's own reliable and fast networking infrastructure to perform data operations in a secure and cost effective manner. If expansion needs arise, developers can benefit from the scalability provided by Google's infrastructure.

    What is Portworx?

    It is the cloud native storage company that enterprises depend on to reduce the cost and complexity of rapidly deploying containerized applications across multiple clouds and on-prem environments.

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    What are some alternatives to Google Cloud Storage and Portworx?
    Google Drive
    Keep photos, stories, designs, drawings, recordings, videos, and more. Your first 15 GB of storage are free with a Google Account. Your files in Drive can be reached from any smartphone, tablet, or computer.
    Firebase
    Firebase is a cloud service designed to power real-time, collaborative applications. Simply add the Firebase library to your application to gain access to a shared data structure; any changes you make to that data are automatically synchronized with the Firebase cloud and with other clients within milliseconds.
    Amazon Glacier
    In order to keep costs low, Amazon Glacier is optimized for data that is infrequently accessed and for which retrieval times of several hours are suitable. With Amazon Glacier, customers can reliably store large or small amounts of data for as little as $0.01 per gigabyte per month, a significant savings compared to on-premises solutions.
    Amazon S3
    Amazon Simple Storage Service provides a fully redundant data storage infrastructure for storing and retrieving any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere on the web
    DigitalOcean Spaces
    DigitalOcean Spaces are designed to make it easy and cost effective to store and serve massive amounts of data. Spaces are ideal for storing static, unstructured data like audio, video, and images as well as large amounts of text.
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