Google unveils Net storage utility

From CNET News.com: Offering a direct competitor to a widely used Amazon.com service, Google on Wednesday launched an early version of an Internet-based storage system.

As with the better established Amazon Web Services (AWS) option called Simple Storage Service (S3), Google Storage for Developers provides a mechanism to tap into data that Google houses and keeps safe and accessible.

The service is designed to offer low-level access to information stored on the Net. Web sites and Web applications can tap into the data as needed, and Google charges through a utility-computing model that means the more customers use, they more they pay.

Google announced the new service amid its Google I/O conference.

"Developers can easily connect their applications to fast, reliable storage replicated across several U.S. data centers," Jessie Jiang of the Google Storage for Developers team, said in a blog post Wednesday.

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