Gdrive from Google soon !
Google plans to launch their Google Drive, or "GDrive," this year, according to a report that surfaced today.
Will Gdrive, Google’s new application make PC a thing of past? Yes there is a real danger of Personal Computer going into oblivion if everything goes as planned by Google team.
Nicknamed Gdrive, the service will allow users to access their files and operating system from an internet-connected device. A desktop client will keep your local and online files and folders which will sync with a web interface so you can access your desktop files anywhere and anytime, using any network-enabled computer.
Every computer (or phone) becomes "my computer"--access to all my files and my operating system--as long as I have an internet connection. Of course this idea is not new. This is the premise of "cloud computing" were storage and processing takes places in remote data centers instead of on a users PC. (I'll take a moment to plug a Business Week article on the subject that I helped my boss with a few weeks back, Cloud Computing is No Pipe Dream) .
Christian Zibreg of TG Daily writes of the services potential, "If the company can really deliver cloud-based storage with enough free space to hold entire content of your hard drive, it will be a key paradigm shift." He concludes his article by imagining a world where cloud computing takes over as the norm and computers with powerful hard-drives loaded with Windows operating systems are a thing of the past.
