Google Plans Service to Store Users' Data Online

achillean wrote this morning with a link to the Wall Street Journal, announcing plans we've all seen coming for a while: an online data storage service from Google. Though the article doesn't come out and call the project 'gDrive' or anything like that, it does indicate the service could be available within the next few months. "Google's push underlines a shift in how businesses and consumers approach computing. They are increasingly using the Web to access applications and files stored in massive computer data centers operated by tech companies such as Salesforce.com Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Google. Such arrangements, made possible by high-speed Internet connections between homes, offices and data centers, aim to ease users' technology headaches and, in some cases, cut their costs."

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Useless to me w/Rogers

[brunes69]

Unless Google can lobby Rogers to get rid of its arcane practice of capping usage at 60GB / month for it's standard high speed, me, and around 50% of people in Canada with high speed internet, can not make any real use of this service.

It is pretty sad that a company will give you a nice 6 Mbps link only to cap you at 60 GB, which you could exceed in only 1 day of saturating your link.

Amazon S3

[NickCatal]

I already do this a bit with Amazon's S3 storage system. It is really nice being able to store files anywhere and paying all of $0.03/month for it.

But hey, I'll take free any day.

On a somewhat related note: It would be great if Google bought the LexisNexus people. Having public access to their database would be a great public service.

Re:Recomendation to dissidents

[StankDawg]

The RIAA wouldn't need to send the police for your computers since they can subpoena Google to get the evidence that they need. They do that for search queries now. Uploading your personal data gives law enforcement one stop shopping to your information. A "portal" to all of your personal information. How convenient...