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Google Drive: The Future of Cloud Computing

Google Drive is a cloud-based storage and synchronization service that allows users to create, edit, and collaborate on documents, spreadsheets, presentations, drawings, forms, and more. It includes apps like Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides that provide office functionality online and allow real-time collaboration. Google Drive offers 10GB of free storage and automatically saves changes in the cloud so files are always accessible from any device.

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Google Drive: The Future of Cloud Computing

Google Drive is a cloud-based storage and synchronization service that allows users to create, edit, and collaborate on documents, spreadsheets, presentations, drawings, forms, and more. It includes apps like Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides that provide office functionality online and allow real-time collaboration. Google Drive offers 10GB of free storage and automatically saves changes in the cloud so files are always accessible from any device.

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Google Drive

The Future of Cloud Computing

By: Cory Lincourt


What is Google Drive?
Google Drive according to Google is “One safe place for all your stuff”. It is a cloud
based drive to create, store and edit your documents, spreadsheets and more.

It includes:
• Google Docs
• Google Sheets
• Google Slides

• Google Keep
• Google Forms
• Google Drawings
• Google App Scripts
• Google Fusion Tables
• Quickoffice

Video From Google:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WTE6pa-EY4#t=19
Features of Google Drive
“Everything you need, everywhere you go” -Google

• 10GB of online (cloud) storage with a free account


• Everything is in one convenient place
• Powerful and free online editing tools
• Full Office like Suite
• Continuous and Automatic saving (so you never have to work about a
save button)
• Ability to view just about any file type in your browser with no
software to download
• All linked to your Gmail account
How it Began

TheVerge.com stated Google Docs was “the mother of modern word


processing” but this just didn’t happen overnight

• Idea began back in 2005


• Sam Schillace developed a web app called “writely”
• “Writely” was a simple web-based text-editor
• In 2006 Google acquired this web app
• Started out as an experiment
• Eventually grew to this big idea of a editor with convenience (it was
online/could be accessed anywhere)
• Later was adopted by 90% of the company in less than one month
Google Drive Apps

Google Docs Google Sheets Google Slides

A Microsoft Word like, word An Excel like, Spreadsheet A Powerpoint like, presentation
processor that is web-based application that allows the application that is easy to share
and allows the collaboration of collaborations of many and allows the collaboration of
many individuals work on a individuals work on a single other individuals work on one
single document. spreadsheet. slideshow.
Google Drive Apps (cont.)

Google Keep Google Forms Google Drawings


A digital online note taker for A digital online roster /survey An online based drawing
text, pictures and lists application that automatically application
converts into a spreadsheet

Video:http://www.youtube.co Video:http://www.youtube.co

m/watch?v=UbvkHEDvw-o m/watch?v=IzgaUOW6GIs
What do you Mean By Collaboration?
• Because these documents are cloud based the owner of the file can
invite others to share it with

• By doing so they can also allow those other individuals to edit and
critique the file

• It works great for group presentations or office wide spreadsheets

• Here's a video to better explain the idea behind this:


• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRqUE6IHTEA
Application ScreenShots
Application Screenshots Cont. (Sharing)
Its All In The Cloud
So besides the idea of providing free and powerful office applications to
the general and even business users the idea behind Googles suite of
applications is worry-free convenience.

The convenience of never having to worry if your presentation that’s


due at 10 am is on your laptop, home desktop or your office desktop.
They want to create a single space to do all your work in so you don’t
have to worry about the little things. Especially minute things like saving;
Google automatically saves every few keystrokes, in the background for
you.
References
Main source of Application information:

Google Support- Google Docs


https://support.google.com/drive/answer/49008?hl=en

Google Docs Info Page


http://www.google.com/drive/apps.html

History of Google Docs :

TheVerge
http://www.theverge.com/2013/7/3/4484000/sam-schillace-interview-google-docs-creator-box

Other Sources:
Youtube.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Doc#Storage
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Drive
http://www.marioarmstrong.com/tag/google-docs/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Doc#Storag
Any Questions?

Cory Lincourt
clincourt01@jwu.edu

8 Abbott Park Place


Providence, RI

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