CentreStack transforms traditional file servers into cloud file servers

Google has been providing cloud storage under the name of Google Storage for Developers for over two years. Recently it was renamed to Google Cloud Storage and graduated from the Google Code Lab. There are many ways you can use the Google Cloud Storage. For example, you can use it to backup your files; use it as an external drive so you can drag and drop files to it. This article will go over these two use cases with Google Cloud Storage. We will use Gladinet Cloud Desktop for the demo purpose. The same use cases are covered by Gladinet Cloud Server and Gladinet Cloud for Teams too. Step 1 – Activate Google Cloud Storage If you have never used Google Cloud Storage before, the first step is to activate it for your Google Apps account or your GMail account. goto http://code.google.com/apis/storage/ , and click on the Activate Google Cloud Storage button.

Google Storage ( Google Storage for Developers ) has been on the market for a long time now. It functions very much like Amazon S3. It can be an excellent online backup storage. This article discuss how to setup Google Storage as an online backup target, allowing you to access files both locally and from Google Storage’s online Google Storage Manager. First you will need to sign up for Google Storage . If you have a Google account already, all that you need to do is to activate it. During the activation process, you will need to enable the Google Storage access and also setup billing information through Google Checkout.

If you have a Google Storage for Developers account (through invitation only), good for you because you can continue to use the 100GB free storage as long as Google Storage is still in preview mode. If you don’t have a Google Storage for Developers account already, you can sign up with billing information. You don’t get the 100GB free storage but you can use up to 1 Terabyte of storage as long as your billing info allows. It is now in this Preview/Production mixed mode. Before long, Google Storage may enter into the full production mode, competing with Amazon S3 for the cloud storage business. If you are new to the cloud storage, you may be looking for some review materials to decide which one you will use. This article will compare them from different aspects.