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Google's Space Oddity: Page 2 of 2

The logical conclusion to this effort, though, would be some sort of hosted storage service similar to Amazon's S3 offering, where firms use a Web interface to store or access data and are charged based on volume. (See SmugMug.) Google is still keeping details on its rumored GDrive hosted storage service under wraps, although there has been speculation that this will be more of a consumer than an enterprise play. (See Amazon Takes Aim at Hosted Storage.)

Whatever the outcome, the NASA deal proves that the search engine has storage and server capacity to burn. It's probably only a matter of time before this is opened up to enterprises as a hosted service.

James Rogers, Senior Editor, Byte and Switch

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