GDrive Finally Coming?

January 12, 2010 by Edwin Wang · Leave a Comment
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The long-rumored Google cloud storage service, which was called GDrive sometimes, is finally going to coming as an feature of Google Docs according to the Google Official Blog:

over the next few weeks we will be rolling out the ability to upload, store and organize any type of file in Google Docs. With this change, you’ll be able to upload and access your files from any computer — all you need is an Internet connection.
Instead of emailing files to yourself, which is particularly difficult with large files, you can upload to Google Docs any file up to 250 MB. You’ll have 1 GB of free storage for files you don’t convert into one of the Google Docs formats (i.e. Google documents, spreadsheets, and presentations), and if you need more space, you can buy additional storage for $0.25 per GB per year. This makes it easy to backup more of your key files online, from large graphics and raw photos to unedited home videos taken on your smartphone. You might even be able to replace the USB drive you reserved for those files that are too big to send over email.

A lot of collaboration features are going to be integrated to this service as well, such as Share Folder feature which was launched for Google Docs a while ago.

Read the full story at: Google Docs Official Blog
For enterprise users, you can refer to this post at Google Enterprise Blog, learning that what this coming service can benefit your enterprise collaboration and your business.

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