GDrive?
At an analyst presentation last week, Google's presentation (PDF) included some interesting information. In slide 19, titled "Consumer Products and Services," Google has an image of a bunch of files sitting in a warehouse captioned "store 100%." The notes attached to the since-removed PowerPoint file (what, no OpenOffice.org?) survive in the cache of one interested reader and give some insights into what may be the search company's next big play. In the original presentation, Google discussed its vision for "a world of infinite storage, bandwidth, and CPU power" and its desire to "house all user files," making them accessible from anywhere.
Greg Linden is reporting from the Google Analyst's day and reveals some very interesting thoughts from Google.
Theme 2: Store 100% of User Data 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).We already have efforts in this direction in terms of GDrive, GDS, Lighthouse, but all of them face bandwidth and storage constraints today.
Greg Linden writes about the presentation at Google's Analyst Day:
Slide 31 says that Google's philosophy to new product development is "no constraints" and that they initially ignore "CPU power, storage, bandwidth, and monetization."Slide 20 says (in the notes) that Google plans to "get all the worlds information, not just some."
And slide 19 (in the notes) talks about how their work is inspired by the idea of "a world with infinite storage, bandwidth, and CPU power." They say that "the experience should really be instantaneous". They say that they should be able to "house all user files, including: emails, web history, pictures, bookmarks, etc and make it accessible from anywhere (any device, any platform, etc)" which leads to a world where "the online copy of your data will become your Golden Copy and your local-machine copy serves more like a cache". And, they say that they want "transparent personalization" that uses user "data to transparently optimize the user's experience ... implicitly."