Welcome to the Cloud
Posted on December 3, 2007 by Chris DeBrusk
A few days back there was a flurry of articles in both the mainstream press and the blogger community on what was perceived to be confirmation that Google was finally going to launch capability to allow all of us out here in the great wild world to store our files on its servers. The often rumored but never delivered GDrive might become a reality.
In other words, the Google cloud was going to be able to swallow pretty much anything we could throw at it rather that just the videos, pictures and other standardized media supported today. Of course this ability isn’t actually that new, given that xDrive and .Mac (and others) provide the same ability to store files online. For the most part the current solutions work, although they are limited and often tied to specific operating systems or computers.
What will be interesting to see is whether Google actually tackles the more complicated part of this problem. The real challenge isn’t just to provide an online backup of files that actually reside on the multiple hard drives we all seem to be accumulating these days (try counting them sometime…it is scary). The real challenge is to move the place that all our files live to the web and replicate them down to all those hard drives only when we need them.
So make your laptop, your desktop, you kids computer, your Xbox, iPhone, Blackberry, Tivo, external hard drive and maybe even portions of your work computer (suitably encrypted of course) just temporary storage and make the cloud the place it all lives. Oh yeah, and while you’re at it, remove the burden of keeping everything in sync so that it is automatic and just happens.
In other words, make it easy.
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