Tuesday, January 27, 2009

The future is in the clouds?

It's not healthy to adopt a conspiracy theorist approach especially in these trying times we live in, so I will avoid the obvious comments, but what is the general consensus about the GDrive?

I suspect that for busy folk, always dashing from one location to another, Google's plans seem emminently practical. Instead of carting around a laptop or PDA or Notebook or Blackberry from meeting to meeting and trying to synchronise your notes later, you'll simply log in to the nearest pc and store your work online, without a care.

Well, of course you'll have concerns. How can that data be protected from prying eyes when you won't know WHO could be looking at it? There will no doubt be stringent security procedures, and you can use other back-up options if the data is particularly sensitive, so I think the GDrive WILL enhance our ways of working, after initial bugs are ironed out.

But it will feel a little like diving in the cyber deep end.