Google has its long-awaited cloudopslagdienst Drive officially to the world. With its Dropbox-competitor users have access to 5GB of free storage. For more storage should a monthly fee be paid.
The internetgigant made the announcement on his own blog. This lets the company know that the existing Docs service is integrated in the Drive. This allows users to their documents directly from the storage service open. Also is there a link with Gmail, and content directly through the Google Plus network are shared. Incidentally, it was Google is well-known that the storage for its e-mail service increases from 7.5 GB to 10GB. Developers can use a special Drive-api web application that Googles storage service is integrated.
It is in the Drive directly, in addition to documents, different file types to open without external software: this allows users to, among other Photoshop files open directly without the corresponding application. Additionally, these files also directly from Drive to be edited.
Drive offers 5GB of storage for free, which, for $ 2.50 per month, 20GB extra can be purchased. 100GB is $ 5 per month cost, while for 1TB, $ 50 per month must be settled. For the cloudopslagdienst is an Android application available, but other mobile operating systems are currently not supported. However, a later application for iOS.
Google focuses with the Drive service companies. According to the internetreus allows network administrators to 20GB of storage to buy for $ 4 per month per user. This is possible for up to 800 users per company: the maximum storage space that is bought can be is 16TB.
There were long time rumors about a private cloudopslagdienst of Google. The elders are all from years ago, but recently came across more information about the service. The introduction therefore does not come as a surprise.