Ever hear the phrase, “Anything you can do I can do better”? Google is taking that to the clouds.
On Wednesday, July 9, 2014, Google revealed a deal offering customers two terabytes of free cloud storage for up to a year. To get this free Google Cloud Platform storage, customers need to install cloud software from Panzura. Never heard of Panzura? They’re one of Google’s partners that specializes in cloud gateway software. Until yesterday, they charged for this service, but under these circumstances, they’re offering it for free.
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This is a direct and blatant challenge to rivals like Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure. They both also offer free and generous file storage to their customers. There’s one more catch to this Google free cloud storage: you can only access it from one location. If you need a second or third or other locations, and in this busy world who doesn’t, it will cost you. This is just the latest push of free cloud and storage services between these mega-conglomerates some are calling ‘cloud wars’. Google already gives free 15GB of free storage to drive customers, while Microsoft increased it’s storage limit to 1TB for Office 365. Think of what this will do for Panzura, a relatively unknown company new in the technological spotlight. How will Amazon and Microsoft respond? Will they even respond?? Of these three online conglomerates, who will win the cloud wars?