About a week ago Google announced that Gmail, Google+ and Drive will be tripling their storage capacity from the standard 5GB to 15GB. The announcement was made just before their I/O Conference.
This new amount of storage will give users who use Google’s services the most amount of free cloud storage capacity of any other cloud service out there. When Google Drive first came out it was one of a kind with no other competitors. With the increase of cloud based services such as Dropbox, SkyDrive, iCloud, Amazon Cloud and SugarSync, Google needs a way to, first, save their current users from leaving, and second, bring in new users.
Microsoft’s SkyDrive is Google’s biggest competitor in this Cloud market. SkyDrive is ranked second for storage capacity coming in at 7GB. However, SkyDrive has a few extra pluses that Google has either yet to offer or cannot even compete with. SkyDrive uses a slimmed down Microsoft Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel) for users to quickly change or create a new document. It also has direct integration with the new Outlook.com.
There is no doubt that the 15GB will be a game changer in the Cloud market but what is Google’s main purpose for doing so? As we all know, companies such as Google get their main source of income from Businesses. Google has increased Schools and Business Drive to an extremely large 30GB. You could install an Operating System on that amount of storage!
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One of a kind? You do know that many of the ones you listed above came BEFORE drive?..
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