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As announced at Google's I/O conference, Google Drive will offer unlimited storage on for just $10 a month per user and will accept files up to 5TB in size. Google Drive for Work is a new premium offering for businesses which includes unlimited storage, advanced audit reporting and new security controls.
Google introduced Drive two years ago with an aim to help enterprise work faster and collaborate better with their coworkers and customers. Today more than 190 million people actively use Drive at home, school and work. Drive keeps all users’ work safe, and makes it available everywhere and easy to share. Companies from around the world, such as Crate & Barrel, Seagate, Tory Burch, HP and Jaguar Land Rover rely on Drive to work faster and collaborate better with their coworkers and customers, says Google.
New fine-grained controls let admins customize the Drive experience, such as which employees can install the desktop sync client. With the new audit view users can see activity like moving, deleting or sharing a file within or outside the company, and an audit API will also be available for developers. Google Apps Vault, our solution for search and discovery for compliance needs, is also included with Drive for Work, expanding to cover all content stored in Drive, including Docs, Sheets and Slides, as well as any other file type.
Every year companies create more data than the last, adding megabytes, gigabytes and terabytes. Well, today, we’re taking bytes out of the conversation. For $10/user/month, businesses get unlimited storage for all their employees and can store files up to 5 TB in size (To put that in perspective, no desktop or laptop on the market today even has a hard drive big enough to capture and store a file that size).
As of today, all files uploaded toGoogle Drive will be encrypted, not only from a user’s device to Google and in transit between Google data centers, but also when at rest on Google servers.
‘Some of the most common file types stored in Drive are Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint files. We’ve now built the power of Quickoffice into Docs, Sheets and Slides, so you can open and edit those documents in their native format using Office Compatibility Mode directly on Android and Chrome browser, and coming soon to iOS,’ says Google.
Google Drivefor Work includes the benefits and guarantees of Google Apps for Business, like 24x7 phone support and a 99.9% uptime guarantee. Users will also get access to all of Google’s productivity apps like Docs, Sheets, Slides, Sites and Hangouts, enabling them to collaborate in even more ways. Drive for Work also offers enterprise-grade security and compliance, including a SSAE 16 / ISAE 3402 Type II, SOC 2-audit, ISO 27001 certification, adherence to the Safe Harbor Privacy Principles, and can support industry-specific requirements like HIPAA.
Drive for Work is available globally. Current Apps customers can upgrade from the Admin console to get new features like unlimited storage.
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