The war of Online Storage

Cloud computing is still far away but war for cloud storage has began. Microsoft, Google and Apple have bring out thier weapons for online storage war.

 Let begin with Microsoft, Microsoft is ready to do or die in online services war. Last week Microsoft unveiled the SkyDrive service where users can store files upto 500MB.This storage is not only for email or photos, users can use it desktop harddisk. They made it very easy to use by providing option for Drag and Drop. Users will also have option to share their files on internet.

Now come to Googles efforts on online storage. Google have squashed all the hopes that it will keep adding space for gmail/picasa. Users have to buy online storage if they Overflow

Quotes from Ryan Aquino's official google blog:

"When you reach the limit of free storage (i.e., 1GB for Picasa Web Albums, 2.8GB for Gmail), consider this your overflow solution. Plans start at $20/year for 6GB (yes, $5 cheaper than before), with larger plans ranging up to 250GB. If only testing everything were this easy.

We'll update this post as soon as we're ready to take your order.
Update: And we're live! To buy more storage, go here. "

On google users can buy upto 250GB online storage which will be shared among all google services like Gmail, Picasa Web and in future Google Apps(Docs & spreadshits).

Now coming to Apple, why should apple be behind google and microsoft so it also increased its .Mac online storage from 1GB to 20GB. The price of .Mac's overall subscription remained the same at $99 per year, but the service comes with a number of other tools such as Mac training, web hosting, and heavy desktop software integration.

All these moves reflect the battle in online storage space. Although Microsoft is offering only 1/5 of Google's storage , it is free and can be used for uploading any kind of files. It is very easy to use. Currently I will go for it but I would like to try gDrive when it become reality.