Now that the dust is starting to settle from Symantec’s purchase of Veritas and having weathered the tax bill that came with it we have forward thinking. Symantec purchased Veritas amid some confusion as to their motivation. Now it seems they are starting to leverage the combination of technologies. Symantec is considering the offering of an online backup solution much in the same vein of the Google GDrive.
The GDrive service will provide anyone (who trusts Google with their data) a universally accessible network share that spans across computers, operating systems and even devices. Users will no longer require third party applications to emulate this behaviour by abusing Gmail storage.
So I have a question. Who will protect the users privacy? Will there be any expectation of privacy? We have seen that privacy doesn’t hold a lot of water with Google. As for Symantec’s offering to be called Genesis,
“It isn’t clear to me that backup is really the thing that people are going to be buying,” said Andrew Jaquith, senior analyst with The Yankee Group in Boston. “I think Symantec is probably wise to keep their plans open about how they sell it.”
Sorry, not interested. Call me a cynic.
[tags]Symantec, Google, Genesis, GDrive, Online storage[/tags]