When Amazon debuted S3 it changed the online storage business overnight. Today, online storage is reborn again.
Google has announced the availability of increased storage for Gmail and Picasa. Essentially this is the opening shot of what is expected to become a full-blown storage solution, ie. GDrive.
Is this important? You betcha! The significance of Amazon’s S3 was not only in its industry changing pricing, but also in its developer support. Nothing short of this can be expected of Google, especially when taking into consideration their forward thinking approach in providing developers API access to their products.
Then of course there’s Google’s infrastructure and huge datacenters. Not to mention Apps on a Domain…
Google isn’t calling the new offering a full-fledged storage solution, but there’s no way to mistake the direction.
BTW, the pricing is as follows:
- 6 GB ($20.00 per year)
- 25 GB ($75.00 per year)
- 100 GB ($250.00 per year)
- 250 GB ($500.00 per year)
More coverage:
Gmail storage to become GDrive?…
It’s been mentioned at Mashable, that it looks like Gmail’s storage will soon look to be evolving into a major competitor for sites that are currently offering free / cheap online file and multimedia storage. I mean, why shouldn’t it?…
Trackback by GadgetLite Blog — August 10, 2007 @ 6:50 pm
Goodbye to www.filebackup.net
They saved my scrawny neck a few times, but this is priced better.
They do back up standard files as well I have to assume.
Comment by Harry Myers — August 13, 2007 @ 6:32 pm