Why wait for Gdrive? ElephantDrive is here!

TechCrunch continued its coverage of the online data space with a post on GDrive today by Mark Hendrikson.

It’s a curious posting. Like a lot of people, it seems as though Mark is tapping into the idea that people are just waiting for Google to launch something here and assuming it will be the best in class. We obviously take issue with that idea, but for a variety of reasons. If Google were launching a new advertising platform, we would think it is pretty reasonable to assume it would be great. But this is a service that is far from their core competency and has little relationship to their primary business - delivering and monetizing search results.

We’re most interested in how AppEngine develops. It has enormous potential, but at present is dramatically inferior to the much more developed and robust Amazon Web Services offerings.

We will stay tuned…

Will Google App Engine change things?

Google is making waves in the blogosphere, having just announced their new AppEngine.

Stacey Higgenbotham at Giga Om wonders whether what this will mean for ElephantDrive. She is writing, as are others, about the implications of the new Google platform for Amazon’s successful AWS suite of services.

We are actually pretty excited. We have build ElephantDrive’s architecture to take advantage of exactly this sort of development. It’s why we were so excited when Amazon launched S3 (frankly, we were surprised that Google wasn’t first to market here). In any event, we think that Google still has a long way to go to get were AWS is now, but it is definitely a big plus for us as we can move seamlessly between storage-as-a-service providers.

Other interesting related links:

Jose Miguel Cansado at Tech-Talk Biz
Marshall Kirkpatrick at ReadWriteWeb

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Marshall Kirkpatrick at ReadWriteWeb Any ideas?

Also, more recently, Brian McConnell says it will be good for everybody

ElephantDrive gear is now available!

In response to many requests for ElephantDrive t-shirts and other gear, we’ve launched a little web store where you can get a few select items for wearing around. We’re always considering adding other items, so let us know if you’re interested in any other products.

The store is live now.