Google GDrive

The launch of Google GDrive is going to take cloud computing to a new level. It would be serving as an online hard disk on which you can store any data and will be accessible from anywhere in the world. Only an internet connection is required by a user to view his data. Already we are using a service close to this in the way of picasa, google docs and other such services where our data is stored online, but its highly specific. GDrive is going to end that and an unlimited amount of data storage on the network would be possible. This Hard Drive will also auto sync. your files with the files with the files on your computer and update the changed ones. The expected launch date is sometime this year.



Google is already working on convincing the people about the benefits of cloud computing in which the information is stored on the web rather than your hard drive. Another advantage which Google already has is the wide range of services it offers. Users generally will prefer to access service of a single provider which will have integration with other services. For example, I use Picasa, Gmail, blogger, adsense, google docs and logging in just one tab can open all other services in other tabs without asking for username and password. Also there are benefits of interoperability.
But there are downsides to this also. This means that the world will be trusting Google with large amount of personal data and it might breach that trust. There are already some allegations floating on Gmail scanning private mail accounts to generate targeted advertisements.

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