Google enters the clouding business with a bang, announces its first cloud platform Google Drive – Part 1

Google, Inc. has now joined the elite club of cloud services, along with SkyDrive, iCloud, DropBox and many more, with its Google Drive service. However, Google being Google poses more threat to each one of the aforementioned than any other in the bunch.

Apple introduced its clouding services last year in the shape of iCloud, closely followed by DropBox. Though SkyDrive has been in the market for more than five years, the complete clouding service started last year.

However, all eyes were waiting what Google brings to the table. The company did not disappoint with what it brings to its customers. The service is an enhancement to the Google Docs services that has been on the web for almost seven odd years. Google Drive, or GDrive for e-slang, works both on web and as a stand-alone application.

Now you can not only save your Microsoft Office files on the internet but there are a number of file options that are supported on the platform. The service also boasts compatibility to different files and their management in folders, what Google calls collections. There is a search bar on the top to search for files and folders in the GDrive. Moreover, it syncs with the desktop or any other local drive seamlessly and has the functionality of backing up the files and folders.

More on that in the latter part of the article but first let’s see how to get started with the service.

Unlike other clouding services Drive is neither platform bound nor specific user bound. It can be used all over the world by anyone who has web presence.

• First of all go to drive.google.com to activate the service. Once it is activate, it can be accessed.

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Posted by Usman Khalid on Apr 25 2012. Filed under Sci-Tech. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.