Google Storage

Google storage

Google has long been waiting to enter the file storage niche after several small stepping stones. Individual users can use google storage for an expanded inbox, storing pictures in picassa and the google account storage pricing was very lucrative for individuals.

Google also stepped on Gdrive project where users could upload documents to google docs. Google was not easy going on the space though while offering just 1GB of free space, while competitors Microsoft allowed 25GB of free space through Skydrive and Adrive offers 50GB space.

Google storage is a new venture by google, announced in the google IO conference and is targeted at the business and the developer market. In straight words, a competitor to Amazon S3. Google storage is currently available only by invite and just like any other google product, carries the beta tag. This offers the power of storing your files on google cloud, and utilizing the advanced machine learning techniques by google. The google blogs claims that the service will be capable of handling trillions of rows at good speeds. This will be a pay per use service with no tier levels as of now.

Pricing
Clearly, google did not do a good job in pricing the google account storage with picassa, and users are very happy with flickr while paying $24.99 an year. Also, google did not do a good job in offering just 1GB while competitors provided way more space. Google storage pricing seems to be more logical and along the same lines of amazon S3. Google storage is priced at 17 cents per GB per month [Amazon s3 is priced at 15 cents a month]. The two giants share the same requests pricing – 1 cent per 1000 POST requests and 1 cent per 10000 GET requests.

Key Features
Google has already promised its developers a key based authentication, a web interface and advanced access controls. The trump card though is the advanced algorithm which promises high speed access to database of trillions of records.

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