26 Jan, 2009
NEW DELHI: Is GDrive, Google's next salvo tapping cloud computing? So believes several industry watchers. Speculations are rife that the company is set to launch 'GDrive', which would allow people to store almost all their data on the internet and access it from wherever they are.
Says the US-based technology news website: "Throw your hard drive away, Google's Gdrive is arriving in 2009."
The GDrive is expected to allow people to access and update all their online data such as emails, photographs, music, documents and spreadsheets from any device with an internet connection.
Google has been working hard to convince computer users of the benefits of 'cloud computing', in which the web rather than the hard drive is used as the place to store information. GDrive is likely to bring together all of Google's existing web-based services.
TG Daily believes that GDrive could "cause a major paradigm shift in how we use computers and bring Google one step closer to dethroning Windows on your desktop".
However, according to certain analysts it may not be prudent to entrust Google with so much personal or commercial data. They argue that information is not as safe in the cloud as it is in a computer.
Google reportedly refused to comment on the topic.
Indiatimes Infotech
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