Rumour has it that Google may finally release GDrive in May 2009 and that it may combine with Google MyStuff.  Now that cloud computing is becoming ubiquitous (we’re hoping that every Transition Year student will have a me.com account to go with their new Macbooks in September), it would be a perfect time to launch such a product.

With GDrive/MyStuff (as with Apple’s me.com), users would be able to move most or all of their storage requirements off the desktop and into the cloud.  Users do this all the time anyway – email on Gmail, photos on Flick or Picasa, documents on Google docs etc. – but Gdrive/MyStuff (we can assume) would let users do all of this automatically and (probably) in one place.  And as with me.com, chances are there will be a drag and drop option and an auto sync option so that all of your stuff is available from any connected device at any time.

In the meantime, Gspace is a simple plugin for Firefox that lets you use your free 7Gb of Gmail storage for storing other stuff.

On Monday, April 20th Alexandra College will be moving over to Google Apps for Education for email for all staff and students.  This allows us to get rid of the old email server which has been running for around ten years now.  It also, of course, means that the College will save a fairly substantial amount of money each year and that all staff and students will have access to the Gmail interface.  Google Calendar and Google Docs will be rolled out for all staff and students at the same time.  Deployment and testing will take place the week of April 13th 2009 and everything should be up and running for summer term on April 20th.