Here comes Google Drive, finally. We have been talking about it for years, periodically, but now the rumors are becoming so concrete as to become reality, and there is already talk of the release date, which should be set for next week. Google would, in fact, be about to release his storage and sharing service for files and personal data online, in cloud computing, along the lines of iCloud, Dropbox, Sugarsync and many othersi.
The trump card of the Big G, which enters the market considerably behind the competition, will be native integration with other Google services, such as Gmail and Picasa (the storage service for images) and with the Android system, as well to the free space offered, which will be, as for the competition, 5 Gb, with the added possibility for users to increase it for a fee.
What Google Drive aims is to be not just a simple virtual hard drive, but an accessible space on every operating system, available as a web application and downloadable app. A long-awaited good news, for many, therefore, and for Google the insertion of a missing piece in the rich puzzle of its offers.
At this point, adding up the free spaces of the various cloud computing services, anyone who wants to can take them with them everywhere, in a very light "cloud", a huge external disk, at no cost.
