Google gears up to replace hard drives with Gdrive

by Staff, Brand Republic 26-Jan-09, 12:00

LONDON - Google is believed to be on the verge of launching Gdrive, a new service allowing users to store the entire contents of their hard drives on the internet.

According to reports Google is gearing up to launch Gdrive next year. The new service would potentially mean any device with an internet connection could perform the tasks of a PC.

The new free service would be an extension of Google's current online data storage product tied into its Gmail email offering, which allows users to store documents and images.

It would also be powerful enough to boot up programmes and, potentially, a Google operating system.

However there are concerns among privacy campaigners over whether it is a good idea to allow such a quantity of commercial and private data to be available online.

Google would not comment on the launch date of Gdrive.

Gdrive would rival Microsoft’s Sky Drive which offers 25GB of free storage but with a limit of 500MB per file.

A beta version of Sky Drive keeps automatically synchronises files across the PC, mobile and web.

Comments

Johnny Watters - 26/01/2009

Awesome. So when are Google buying Iceland then?

Steve Weston - 26/01/2009

Sounds great... Are Google actually going to buy Iceland?!

John Gallen - 26/01/2009

With googles reputation on privacy I wouldn't touch it with a barge pole

Tony Attwood - 26/01/2009

And I wouldn't touch Iceland with a lolly stick either. The problem arises when one of the Arab groups that is currently buying up the football clubs decides to buy Google - I think I would trust them even less than I trust Google to keep information safe.

Rupert Runewitsch - 26/01/2009

Wouldnt trust Google with anything of any importance. Once it's on their servers, they can do what they want with it. Maybe good for photo storage but that's about it.