Marcelo Calbucci

Startup Score:

Successes: 0.1+0.5
Failures: 1
In progress: 1

Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Why there is no GDrive yet? Because...

 

    GDrive, aka, Google provided cloud-storage didn't happen yet. Microsoft has even come out with the LiveDrive Beta (or Alpha) ahead of Google announcing anything. And, let's be honest, Microsoft is not the fastest product-shipper out there. So, what gives?

 

    Here is my wild-guess... Google is trying to offer an unprecendent amount of storage and an unprecedent kind of service. Not only will it work with Windows, Mac and Linux, but it'll integrate beautifully into all those OSes and provide a web-based access. On top of that, it will offer 100 GB for free, or more!

 

    So why is taking so long? Because they need to build up the dozens of data centers to store all that information.

blog comments powered by Disqus