Google Drive goes live!

[CyberNerd]

I tried the UNC path and it still crashed for me.

 

Have you checked that your proxy still logs usernames after disabling auth? That's what I didn't want to lose, because I still want to know who's searching for rude words on Google.

 

It worked here on XP.

Interestingly I installed it as an admin, then put a shortcut to googledrivesync.exe in the startup directory.

When the teacher logged in it automatically installed it to his mapped drive H:/google drive on the server.

 

Proxy won't log usernames on google.com any more. An inconvenience.

[SYNACK]

Proxy won't log usernames on google.com any more. An inconvenience.

 

A rather large and unacceptable one for some.

[CyberNerd]

having looked at some logs, it appears most of our users are being redirected to google.co.uk which does have authentication. So the majority of searches are being logged.

[gshaw]

From a future design point of view it begs an interesting question of how this (and SkyDrive etc) will work across networks once Microsoft & Google sort out proper business-level clients for their cloud storage.

 

As I see it you have a couple of options...

 

a) keep the local sync option for each user on each PC they logon to, which if roaming with multiple users means biiiig local sync caches and needing workstations with large HDDs

b) keep a local synced copy on a central file server but isn't that the very thing the cloud storage is meant to get rid of?

c) use everything in the cloud in "online" mode but then that defies the point of a fast local cache and the need for always-on Internet

d) some sort of clever partial caching system based on file usage (similar to the Office on demand download that gets the program as you use certain features)

 

Seems like a matter of choosing the least bad option rather than any of them being particularly great? Or again maybe the idea of Microsoft and Google is that they keep the 1:1 consumerist model as that's where they want corporate machines to be going? That doesn't seem like a great idea from point of view of security either unless you're using Chromebooks or some other sort of managed encrypted device, which goes against the grain of BYOD anyway...

Edited April 30, 2012 by gshaw

[sted]

From a future design point of view it begs an interesting question of how this (and SkyDrive etc) will work across networks once Microsoft & Google sort out proper business-level clients for their cloud storage.

 

As I see it you have a couple of options...

 

a) keep the local sync option for each user on each PC they logon to, which if roaming with multiple users means biiiig local sync caches and needing workstations with large HDDs

b) keep a local synced copy on a central file server but isn't that the very thing the cloud storage is meant to get rid of?

c) use everything in the cloud in "online" mode but then that defies the point of a fast local cache and the need for always-on Internet

d) some sort of clever partial caching system based on file usage (similar to the Office on demand download that gets the program as you use certain features)

 

Seems like a matter of choosing the least bad option rather than any of them being particularly great? Or again maybe the idea of Microsoft and Google is that they keep the 1:1 consumerist model as that's where they want corporate machines to be going? That doesn't seem like a great idea from point of view of security either unless you're using Chromebooks or some other sort of managed encrypted device, which goes against the grain of BYOD anyway...

 

wouldnt the middle ground in an office be to use multiple workstations to each hold part of the whole data set (like say raid5 for hdds) so as long as enough local pcs were on (or the right ones) it would be lan storage rather than wan?

[CyberNerd]

b) keep a local synced copy on a central file server but isn't that the very thing the cloud storage is meant to get rid of?

 

I'm thinking this - The mapped homedrive is the google drive.

You get all the advantages of using a share on a server, you can access that share at home, plus you don't need a shared area because shared files appear in the user folder itself.

Looks like I'm going to need ZFS for deduping all this though.

[gshaw]

I'm thinking this - The mapped homedrive is the google drive.

You get all the advantages of using a share on a server, you can access that share at home, plus you don't need a shared area because shared files appear in the user folder itself.

Looks like I'm going to need ZFS for deduping all this though.

 

Yup the idea of having the individual storage has appealed to me since SkyDrive first appeared; however I'm not so sure about going straight up to the web storage as it's often rather laggy when using the save feature in Office 2010 and that's only with fairly basic Word files. Dread to wonder how it would cope with Photoshop etc, hence the local sync quandary...

[Arthur]

ARGGHHH! and no linux client!

Have you tried Grive?

[CyberNerd]

I'll give it a try!

[edutech4schools]

Yup the idea of having the individual storage has appealed to me since SkyDrive first appeared; however I'm not so sure about going straight up to the web storage as it's often rather laggy when using the save feature in Office 2010 and that's only with fairly basic Word files. Dread to wonder how it would cope with Photoshop etc, hence the local sync quandary...

 

What I have noticed with Google Drive is you can add files to the drive and they are cached locally but then sync up to the cloud, So if I have a large file or many files they are copied very quickly into the local drive and you can move on to other work while in the background it gets synchronised.