{"id":136306,"date":"2015-08-25T09:19:39","date_gmt":"2015-08-25T07:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=136306"},"modified":"2015-08-25T09:21:33","modified_gmt":"2015-08-25T07:21:33","slug":"upload-your-data-to-google-cloud-by-sending-a-third-party-your-hard-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/136306-upload-your-data-to-google-cloud-by-sending-a-third-party-your-hard-drive.html","title":{"rendered":"Upload your data to Google Cloud by sending a third party your hard drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google has unveiled its <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cloud.google.com\/storage\/docs\/offline-media-import-export\" target=\"_blank\">Offline Media Import\/Export<\/a><\/strong> service, allowing you to load data into Google Cloud Storage by sending your hard disk drives, tapes, and USB flash drives to a service provider who uploads data on your behalf.<\/p>\n<p>This follows Google\u2019s preview in 2013 of the service which allowed people to send Google their hard drives to be uploaded to Google Cloud Storage.<\/p>\n<p>Google explained that Offline Media Import\/Export is helpful if you\u2019re limited to a slow, unreliable, or expensive Internet connection.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo use Offline Media Import\/Export, you can use any third party service provider you choose who can perform the service for you,\u201d said Google.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou must make your own arrangements for Offline Media Import\/Export directly with the third party service provider you choose (and not through Google).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The service is currently only available in North America, but is coming to the Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Google<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/135688-four-problems-google-should-tackle.html\">Four problems Google should tackle<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/135576-google-onhub-a-different-kind-of-wi-fi-router.html\"><strong>Google OnHub \u2013 a different kind of Wi-Fi router<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/135300-new-google-nexus-appears-online.html\"><strong>New Google Nexus appears online<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has unveiled its Offline Media Import\/Export service, allowing people to load data into Google Cloud Storage by sending a third party their hard disk drives and USB flash drives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":126244,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[36,167,32410],"class_list":["post-136306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-active","tag-google","tag-google-cloud-storage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136306"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136306"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136320,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136306\/revisions\/136320"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}