[Infowarrior] - Google Plans To Offer Remote Data Storage

[Richard Forno]

(Talk about a data-mining and potentially-hellish privacy and
confidentiality nightmare......count me out...rf)

Google Plans To Offer Remote Data Storage

http://www.247wallst.com/2007/11/google-goog-pla.html

Google (GOOG) will offer PC users the chance to store data like word files
and videos on its servers instead of individual computer hard drives. It is
part of the company's remote computing system which allows people performing
tasks on PCs to run those on the Google servers instead of taking up memory
on the computer itself. Google Apps, the company's spreadsheet and word
processing applications already take advantage of the system.

The Google model is aimed at Microsoft (MSFT) Windows which runs its
applications using the local computer memory and drives. Google sees no
reason to eat up all of that power if its server farms can do the job.

Aside from the normal concerns about storing private data outside the PC,
the plan has another flaw. Most computer hard drives can store a lifetime of
data and images, so it is not clear why the majority of PC users would even
want to store material remotely. There may be the odd geek who has a billion
terabytes of information, but that is probably less than 1% of the PC-owning
population.

The Google storage plan is a good idea without a logical customer base.

Douglas A. McIntyre