I suggest you read, for example, this article from TC: http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/11/google-launches-cloud-storage-nearline-a-low-cost-storage-service-for-c

I suggest you read, for example, this article from TC: http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/11/google-launches-cloud-storage-nearline-a-low-cost-storage-service-for-cold-data/ http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/11/google-launches-cloud-stora... This information should challenge your argument that Nearline is not groundbreaking, at least in the "cloud archival storage" space.