{"id":39962,"date":"2009-11-11T09:11:03","date_gmt":"2009-11-11T14:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"52437 at http:\/\/www.webpronews.com"},"modified":"2009-11-11T09:11:03","modified_gmt":"2009-11-11T14:11:03","slug":"google-makes-the-cloud-cheaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/39962","title":{"rendered":"Google Makes the Cloud Cheaper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gmail used to offer a gigabyte of storage to new users, but now it offers at least seven gigs. Picasa comes with a gig. Sometimes that&#8217;s not enough. While Google has offered the ability to pay for additional storage, the company has now reduced the prices for it. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;You can now buy 20 GB for only $5 a year &mdash; that&#8217;s twice as much storage for a quarter of the old price, and enough space for more than 10,000 full resolution pictures taken with a five megapixel camera,&quot; <a href=\"http:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.com\/2009\/11\/twice-storage-for-quarter-of-price.html\">says<\/a> Google Software Engineer Elvin Lee. &quot;Since most people have less than 10 GB of photos, chances are you can now save all your memories online for a year for the cost of a triple mocha. If you need more than 20 GB, plans range all the way up to 16 TB, which is enough room for 8 million full resolution photos! And Google paid storage offers an extra level of security, protection and accessibility that you can&#8217;t get with an external drive &mdash; at a similar cost per gigabyte.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Upgrade Storage\" alt=\"Upgrade Storage\" src=\"http:\/\/images.ientrymail.com\/webpronews\/article_pics\/upgrade-storage.jpg\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>The entire price list is as follows:<\/strong><br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <br \/>\n20 GB ($5.00 USD per year)<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <br \/>\n80 GB ($20.00 USD per year)<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <br \/>\n200 GB ($50.00 USD per year)<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <br \/>\n400 GB ($100.00 USD per year)<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <br \/>\n1 TB ($256.00 USD per year) <\/p>\n<p>2 TB ($512.00 USD per year)<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <br \/>\n4 TB ($1,024.00 USD per year)<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <br \/>\n8 TB ($2,048.00 USD per year)<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <br \/>\n16 TB ($4,096.00 USD per year) <\/p>\n<p>&quot;While today&#8217;s announcement is exciting from a practical standpoint, it&#8217;s also indicative of one of the strongest computing trends of the year: cloud computing going mainstream,&quot; a Google representative tells WebProNews. &quot;A number of factors are helping the average user move to &#8216;the cloud.&#8217; First, the technology continually increases in efficiency, so that, as in this case, we can store data ever more cheaply and pass on those savings to our users. Second, a new breed of net-centric hardware is giving consumers faster, easier, more comprehensive access to the cloud &#8211;netbooks and smartphones are among the hottest gadgets this holiday season.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>When a user purchases an additional storage plan, that plan will be automatically renewed each year. However, if a user wants to, they can disable auto-renewal by going to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/accounts\/PurchaseStorage\">purchase page<\/a> and choosing the free plan. Google will contact users 30 days before renewal. It takes about 24 hours for new storage to appear.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Articles:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: larger;\">&gt;&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/topnews\/2009\/09\/24\/gmail-users-experience-another-hiccup\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 105, 210); text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: larger;\">Gmail Users Experience Another Hiccup<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: larger;\">&gt;&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/topnews\/2009\/03\/19\/gmail-messages-get-richer\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 105, 210); text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: larger;\">Gmail Messages Get Richer<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: larger;\">&gt;&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/insiderreports\/2007\/10\/12\/gmail-storage-ticks-upward-lags-yahoo-aol\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 105, 210); text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: larger;\">Gmail Storage Ticks Upward, Lags Yahoo, AOL<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: larger;\">&gt;&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/topnews\/2009\/10\/08\/google-it-departments-moving-toward-the-cloud\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 105, 210); text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: larger;\">Google: IT Departments Moving Toward the Cloud<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=MeNPvKPnyV8:TZONZ3IdET0:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=MeNPvKPnyV8:TZONZ3IdET0:wF9xT3WuBAs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=MeNPvKPnyV8:TZONZ3IdET0:wF9xT3WuBAs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=MeNPvKPnyV8:TZONZ3IdET0:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=7Q72WNTAKBA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=MeNPvKPnyV8:TZONZ3IdET0:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=MeNPvKPnyV8:TZONZ3IdET0:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=MeNPvKPnyV8:TZONZ3IdET0:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/webpronews\/all\/~4\/MeNPvKPnyV8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gmail used to offer a gigabyte of storage to new users, but now it offers at least seven gigs. 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