Friday, 27 June 2014

Google Drive for Work - $10 for unlimited storage

At Google IO they announced Google "Drive for Work":
http://www.google.com/enterprise/apps/business/driveforwork/index.html


"Drive for Work" offers unlimited storage and accepts files up to 5TB in size for just $10 per month, per userIt's not just the price that's better; there are a few key updates that got some stage time too. One is that users can now encrypt data within Drive. 




This looks really cool for small, medium businesses. Integrated email using gmail interface using you own domain name, as unlimited storage means never lose an email. All your files backed up on the cloud and accessible anywhere from any PC, tablet or smartphone. 

I really like it with onsite NAS like Synology which supports syncing to to Google Drive with integrated Cloud Sync app:
http://www.macdrifter.com/2014/03/synology-sync-with-dropbox-and-google-drive.html
Could even use Synology NAS as NFS storage server for VMware and backup VMs to Synology using Veeam, this would then be backed up to Google Drive using Synology Cloud Sync.

Update 13/7/2017 - New backup tool available for Google Drive:
https://www.blog.google/products/photos/introducing-backup-and-sync-google-photos-and-google-drive/


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