Industry gossip says that Google is on the verge of launching a system that makes a hard drive redundant. The company is about to launch the ‘GDrive’, which would allow people to store almost all their data on the internet and access it from wherever they are.
Allegedly the GDrive would enable people to access and update all their information such as emails, photographs, music, documents and spreadsheets from any device with an internet connection.
A Google spokesman refused to confirm whether the GDrive launch was imminent. “We don’t comment on speculation, and we don’t pre-announce product launches,” she said, which sounds to me like the launch is imminent.
There are several glitches in the argument for GDrive and Google’s love of cloud computing.
The first is that cloud computing is all very well proving you have a 100% stable connection to the Internet. Where I live is out in the wilds and my broadband connection is through an Over The Air radio signal. Although I haven’t yet had a breakdown in the connection I am not too convinced that it cannot happen.
The second is the amount of faith we have in the likes of Google to keep our data secure. I use Gmail, Google Calendar and Google docs but I sure as hell would not put anything seriously sensitive up on any of those services. I don’t subscribe to the belief of some poeople that Google is the anti-christ who would hand over everything at the drop of a Government subpoena. On the other hand I won’t put bank details etc up in the cloud, I’m just not ready for that.
