Google has just let slip its intentions to offer Online Storage facilities, "creating a mirror image of data stored on hard drives," according to a Reuters report filed in the early hours of this morning. The revelations were apparently picked up by bloggers who captured notes put up on the company web site not intended for publication:
The existence of the previously rumored GDrive online storage service surfaced after a blogger discovered apparent notes in a slide presentation by Google executives published on Google's site after its analysts presentation day last Thursday."With infinite storage, we can house all user files, including emails, web history, pictures, bookmarks, etc and make it accessible from anywhere (any device, any platform, etc)," the notes in the original Google presentation state...
Copies of the notes were captured by a handful of bloggers and shared around the Web. The company subsequently took down its original PowerPoint slide presentation and replaced it with a 94-page Adobe Acrobat file, devoid of the speaker notes.
When asked to confirm plans for a GDrive, a Google spokeswoman declined to comment on any specific service but confirmed that presentation containing the notes had been mistakenly released on the Web.
"We deleted the slide notes because they were not intended for publication," Google spokeswoman Lynn Fox said. The deleted presentation had appeared on Google's investor relations site.
With Sun's wealth of intellectual capital on the creation of these types of systems, the takeover of McNealy's baby now looks like it's just around the corner.
Article comments
1 - chris
But this already exists. I've been using GDisk for months now, and assumes it was sanctioned by Google. Maybe it's a private hack?
2 - David
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