Understanding the data journey
The first step of manipulating data in the cloud is to upload the data to a cloud environment. Depending on the source system and the volume of data, different approaches can be taken. For small file uploads, for example, it may be as simple as using the user interface of Google Cloud to upload a file to a storage bucket. However, as data volumes grow, this simple GUI-based upload may not make sense. Google Cloud customers can also upload data to the cloud via a couple of methods: a transfer over the internet or via a transfer appliance.
The most convenient way of transferring data is generally doing so over the internet, and typically, this is the preferred method. Assuming there are reasons why you can’t do the transfer online, either because of bandwidth limitations or cost, customers can opt to do a transfer via hardware. For the transfer appliance, customers receive a physical storage server that is meant to be hydrated with corporate data...
