GDrive Rumored to Come Soon - Again

GDrive means uploading any file to Google's servers. GDrive means access to that file from anywhere. GDrive could mean a possible computer backup solution for anyone. Just imagine it.

In case something happens to your desktop and it ultimately crashes without the chance of redemption, the backup can be your savior and be set up in a matter of minutes from finishing the reinstall of your operating system - a huge amount of time and nerves saved by this. The synchronization between machines trying to access the same files although they are running different operating systems, collaboration between users in creating shared spaces where they can all write - not enough? It should be. And this is what the first leak about GDrive highlighted, back in July 2006.

Recently, some domains have been moved from non-Google name servers to Google name servers: MyGoogleDrive.com, MyGoogleStorage.com, Earthviewer.info, OpenHandSetAlliance.com (the latter was registered on the 10th of October 2007 and it expires one year from that date. A very short time I might add if it weren't all that obvious). All this fueled the hype surrounding the GDrive possibility and follows an August released paid extra-storage for Gmail and Picasa that was unfortunately limited to just more space in those applications.

Although the registering of the domains is a good sign, it could be just a means of preventing attempts of cybersquatting being aimed at the mountain View based company, like the ones attempted last week by German Sebastian Klein, 27. Or it could mean that the Gdrive is at the moment only an internal Google employee tool, a possibility of replacing a storage server outside of the extra space for Gmail and Picasa.

What matters right now is that it exists (as the picture shows) and that it might hit the market in the near future. I don't think that holding hands and singing "Kumbaya My Lord" helps, but I think the GDrive could be worth it.