<story><title>Introducing Google Cloud Storage Nearline</title><url>http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com/2015/03/introducing-Google-Cloud-Storage-Nearline-near-online-data-at-an-offline-price.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>weitzj</author><text>Quote:
&amp;quot;This is a Beta release of Nearline Storage. This feature is not covered by any SLA or deprecation policy and may be subject to backward-incompatible changes.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;So should I believe in Google&amp;#x27;s good-will? I would be fine trying out some services, which are in Google Beta. But my valuable data? They should have a SLA right from the start to gain the user&amp;#x27;s trust.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>libria</author><text>If we place too many restrictions on how companies should offer preview releases, they&amp;#x27;ll just stop entirely.  Are you suggesting that even those comfortable taking on risk to get a sneak peak should be forced to wait for general availability?</text></comment>
<story><title>Introducing Google Cloud Storage Nearline</title><url>http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com/2015/03/introducing-Google-Cloud-Storage-Nearline-near-online-data-at-an-offline-price.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>weitzj</author><text>Quote:
&amp;quot;This is a Beta release of Nearline Storage. This feature is not covered by any SLA or deprecation policy and may be subject to backward-incompatible changes.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;So should I believe in Google&amp;#x27;s good-will? I would be fine trying out some services, which are in Google Beta. But my valuable data? They should have a SLA right from the start to gain the user&amp;#x27;s trust.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jlebar</author><text>&amp;gt; But my valuable data?&lt;p&gt;Surely the whole point of not having an SLA (and indeed the whole point of calling it a &amp;quot;beta&amp;quot;) is so that you &lt;i&gt;don&amp;#x27;t&lt;/i&gt; trust it with your valuable data.  I&amp;#x27;m sure it will have an SLA soon enough.</text></comment>