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Google's Mythical GDrive Surfaces Once Again: Will It Bring Cloud Storage to the Mainstream?
At this point, most signs point toward Google releasing its rumored GDrive in the near future. In many ways, this mythical GDrive is simply the missing puzzle piece in Google's online strategy. While Google offers a number of online services with a storage component, it still doesn't offer a unified storage solution that brings Gmail, Picasa Web Albums, and Google Docs together.
Microsoft Updates Live Mesh: Worldwide Availability, Mac and Windows Mobile Clients
Today, Microsoft will release a major update for Live Mesh, its consumer oriented cloud storage and synchronization service. Among these updates are more granular permissions for sharing folders, better support for large monitors during remote connections, and support for drag and drop between the online desktop and local devices. Live Mesh is now also available for Mac OS X (10.5.1 or later) and Windows Mobile devices. Microsoft also announced the worldwide availability of Live Mesh.
Into the Cloud: Our 5 Favorite Online Storage Services
Being able to access your files from anywhere and from any computer is one of the great conveniences of the always-on Internet. Online file storage has been around for quite a while, but the latest generation of services are so cheap and easy to use that there is almost no reason not to back some of your files up into the cloud. Most online storage providers also give you the ability to then share these files with your friends and colleagues. We selected the services on this list because they have a good track record of keeping your data safe while providing you easy access to your files from wherever you are.
Wuala Launches P2P Cloud Storage Solution
Wuala puts a new twist on cloud storage. While typical cloud storage services move your data onto servers managed by the provider, Wuala also uses disk space on other members' computers. Files are encrypted on the user's own machine and the chopped up into little pieces and uploaded to Wuala's servers, as well as numerous other users' computers (Wuala calls this 'social grid storage') to provide a redundant storage solution. Wuala's local client is written in Java and runs on OSX, Windows, and Linux.
Windows Live Mesh to Launch Next Week
Microsoft watchers are all abuzz about an announcement the company is scheduled to make at the Web 2.0 Expo next week. It's believed that the event will be where Live Mesh launches (link redirects to boring login). A mysterious project believed to tie together a number of different technologies acquired in recent years - the best guess is that Live Mesh will let users sync files on multiple computers and mobile devices via the web.
Collaboration on documents may be a part of the product as well. It's expected to be a simple, but powerful, service. A number of questions remain, however.
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