It's a Big Cloud

[ Thanks to JJS for this link. ]

"But the real issue is the question of, "Who is the target market?" I cannot imagine a retail company putting it's inventory on storage managed by Google. So realistically, the target market is individual consumers. The type of data being handled is mostly Email, audio/video files, and blogs. For this, the online storage -- and backups -- are very cost effective."

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