Google finds the GSpot with their GDrive

January 24th, 2009 |

Oh God, just when you thought your computer files were safe, comes Mega Giant Google to cloud the issue.

The GDrive, unconfirmed by Google, might launch later this year, making it the most anticipated software product this year aside from Mircosoft’s Windows 7.

The Google drive would move away from Microsoft Window’s operating system, in favor of “cloud computing,” where storage and processing is done in data centers. Users would no longer have to rely on their computers’ powerful hard drives.

From the video page on YouTube: Confused about the term “Cloud Computing”? Want to be “with the times” when you talk about new technology buzzwords? This video boils down a section of Cloud Computing, that of Cloud Infrastructure and Cloud Hosting in a way that everyone can understand!

It’s very common for people all over the world to use web-based services, such as email — including popular services, Yahoo, Hotmail and Gmail — and photo storage, such as Flickr and Picasa.

In most cases a user would no longer have to deal with hard drives crashes, since their data would be saved on the Web, and can be accessed from any machine.

Ok true these web-based services are popular, but the user still has the original files on he or hers hard drive. I don’t know about you, but I like to have local control of what I want accessed over the internet.

There are many other similar types of services, Jungle Disk from Amazon’s web services, XDrive from AOL being one of them. They don’t work for everyone, and sometimes run rather slow and causes conflicts on your PC.

I have used GoToMyPc and hardly ever had a problem accessing any of my files from my own PC.

But wait a minute, this all sounds like a cool idea, but aren’t we forgetting one thing. Who at the other end of the data center has access to your files. Uncle Sam maybe, anyone seen the classic movie George Orwell’s 1984.

Need I say more!

We’ll keep you posted, and see if and when this GDrive happens.

Screen shots of Windows 7.