Cloud Computing: Google Combines Storage For Gmail, Drive, Photos
May 14, 2013
Grazed from InformationWeek. Author: Thomas Claburn.
Last year, when Google combined the privacy policies for more than 60 services into a single policy governing most of the company’s services, the company assured lawmakers that its consolidated privacy policy would allow for a more seamless user experience and information sharing across different products. On Monday, Google extended that policy merger into the product realm. The company broke down the wall that separated Gmail from Drive and Google+ Photos. Henceforth, Google users have access to 15 GB of free online storage that covers Gmail, Drive and Google+ Photos. Previously, Gmail came with 10 GB of free storage and Drive and Google+ Photos collectively came with 5 GB.
The combined free storage pool puts an end to Google’s previous practice of slowly increasing Gmail storage over time. But Google product management director Clay Bavor insists separate storage doesn’t make any sense anymore…
"With this new combined storage space, you won’t have to worry about how much you’re storing and where," Bavor explained in a blog post. "For example, maybe you’re a heavy Gmail user but light on photos, or perhaps you were bumping up against your Drive storage limit but were only using 2 GB in Gmail. Now it doesn’t matter, because you can use your storage the way you want."…
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