Google slashed the costs of hosted storage for its Picasa and Gmail applications, offering 20 gigabytes (GB) of storage for $5 per year, or twice as much for one quarter of the previous price. Will users begin entrusting more e-mail and photos to Google server farms? It’s hard to say, but certainly cutting storage costs for its Picasa photo-sharing and Gmail applications is a sign the cloud computing market is maturing. Was the cost cut a competitive gesture? Google’s cut came one days after Cisco Nov. 9 launched its Cisco WebEx Mail hosted e-mail app for $3.50 per user per month with 5 GB of storage.
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Google slashed the costs of hosted storage for its Picasa
and Gmail applications, offering 20 gigabytes (GB) of storage for $5 per year, or twice
as much for one quarter of the previous price.
For perspective, that’s enough storage for 10,000
high-resolution photos taken with a 5 …