Monday, March 06, 2006

Infinite storage : a reality soon with Google's technology

Great and unbelievable .. right: Please go on:

During Google's analyst's day:There was a presentation containing a possible service called GDrive. The details in the presentation indicate that Google's long term goal is to provide a service to users that give unlimited amounts of storage space so that any type of file can be uploaded and stored. The presentation even indicates the service may be built to allow user access to their files from any device, and any location. Store 100% of User Data With infinite storage, we can house all user files, including: emails, web history, pictures, bookmarks, etc and make it accessible from anywhere (any device, any platform, etc). We already have efforts in this direction in terms of GDrive, GDS, Lighthouse, but all of them face bandwidth and storage constraints today.

However, you can already have infinite storage thro the following way.

Using 3rd party utilities, it is possible to map your GMail account as a psuedo-drive in Windows and use the account as a drag-and-drop file system. With these tools, some users have even sent themselves invites to chain together accounts for an effectively unlimited amount of network storage space.
Raja
OSPIndia Information Security Private Limited (OSP Global, LLC)

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