在华尔街日报看到的，我大体的翻译了一下，大家凑合着看一下吧：
Google公司计划服务：存放用户数据(Gdrive)
谷歌公司要为消费者提供一种新的方式来储存他们的档案就其硬盘驱动器，在一个策略，可以加速转向基于网络的计算和加大互联网公司的竞争与微软公司
谷歌正在拟定一项服务，可让使用者储存在自己的电脑，基本上所有的文件，他们可能把他们的个人电脑硬盘驱动器-如文字处理文件，数字音乐，视频剪辑和图片，说人们熟悉有关此事。这项服务可以让使用者可以存取他们的档案通过互联网从不同的电脑和移动设备时，他们签署后与密码，并分享他们在网上与朋友。它可以释放早在数个月内从现在起，其中一人说。
在加州，该公司计划提供部分免费储存，利用增加存储配股，供收费人员说，人们熟悉的有关事宜。 计划定价，是不知道。
谷歌发言人拒绝评论任何具体的在线存储计划超越它已经推出了作为其电子邮件和其他服务。但她在一项声明中说： "仓库是一个重要的组成部分，使网络[应用] ，很容易成为消费者和商业用户的生命" 。
谷歌的推着重转向如何在企业和消费者的办法计算。他们越来越多地利用网络来获取遗传资源的申请和档案储存在大规模电脑数据中心所经营的高科技公司，如微软公司 ，微软公司和谷歌。这样的安排，可能具备高速互联网连接之间的住宅，办公室和数据中心，宗旨，以减轻用户的技术头痛，并在某些情况下，削减他们的成本。
其他公司提供不同的基于互联网的文件存储服务，但大多数的成长速度不尽理想，与企业和消费者的利益。有些产品，如雅虎亿美元的公事包，基于网络的存储服务，要求用户到一个网页，并通过点击数屏幕上传一个新的文件，并设置各种限制。其他更先进的服务，仍然具有独特优势的产品。
谷歌的市场力量，并着重提供易于使用的服务，提高的机会产生了影响。谷歌是希望能分清自己从现有的网络存储空间服务的，部分是由简化程序，为转移和开放的档案。随着一个基于网络的界面，谷歌正试图让用户上传和获取文件，直接从电脑桌面，并有档案储存的行为，为消费者更喜欢另一种硬盘是得心应手，在任何时候，说人们熟悉此事。
谷歌还面临着许多障碍问题，例如数据隐私，版权，经济学中添加存储容量和技术的挑战，同时为服务没有间断。它仍然是有可能的新的事态发展可能导致谷歌转向钉或搁置计划，为存储提供在未来数个月。
努力-在一个点，称为对内部谷歌"我的东西" -可以放入面临的挑战微软的核心wi ndows操作系统和办公软件的企业加快转变走向基于网络的计算。它也有可能影响到经济学与使用家用电脑，减轻消费者需要购买大硬盘存储和备份他们所有的档案，例如。
一个限制这样的一个基于因特网的储存服务是，这并非是容易，当一个人的电脑或电话，是离线，例如当一个人，是在飞机上，但他仍然可以拷贝所需文件在笔记型电脑或其他装置，然后截断从互联网上。
谷歌，一个的优点是可提供广泛的数据存储服务，将是潜在消费者的注意力吸引到现有谷歌服务与微软竞争的办公应用套件，其中包括word ，人生观和excel 。
谷歌已经有效地提供了存储以供消费者档案，通过网络应用程序，如它的docs文字处理，电子表格和演示应用及其gmail电子邮件。 用户可以上传照片，其picasa等网站的相册，照片托管服务，其中规定之一，技嘉的免费存储空间。他们可以购买从10千兆字节到400千兆字节的额外储存为20元至500元左右。这种存储可以分享用户gmail和picasa公司账户，不久便与档案docs 。
谷歌是希望新的存储服务，将有助配合连同它的一些其他服务，通过单一的搜索框说，其中一个最熟悉的人与事。因此，用户可能无法进行单一关键词搜索，以寻找自己的私人储存档案，而不论他们是否正在通过picasa时， docs或一个软件程序运行在用户的计算机上。
微软公司副总裁克里斯capossela说，该公司相信，用户需要的软件都在他们的电脑和基于因特网的服务。他说，一类消费者的不信任，这种基于互联网的储存方案，并认为谷歌将无法使用储存，以引导用户到其他服务，如果这些服务不是很大首先。 "我们已经花了这么多时间和精力，了解如何为顾客提供最大的保证，他们的隐私权， "先生capossela说。
就其本身而言，微软提供了一个测试版的服务，所谓的windows live skydrive与技嘉的免费存储空间。
目前还不清楚是否谷歌计划，以显示广告作为部分的储存服务。 如果它选择了包括广告的内容基础上的用户文件-它与用户的g mail电子邮件讯息-这将有可能提高红旗隐私团体和一些消费者。
许多企业都有自己的政策，对存储数据在线。消费者还可以享受较低程度的法律保护的隐私，他们的个人资料时，它是基于因特网的文件存储服务，为反对只是在自己的个人电脑，根据律师kevin bankston在电子边疆基金会。
谷歌说，这是知道的隐私担忧。"这肯定是怀着极其敏感，我们的目的，说： "谷歌发言人。"我们有广泛的保障到位，目前，以保护我们的用户数据和我们有一个非常强烈的轨道在这方面的记录" 。
此外，谷歌将可能有解决版权问题。要让消费者分享不同类型的档案，如音乐与其他用户可能会引发类似著作权的投诉，该公司已经面临超过录影带其youtube视频分享网站。一个人熟悉此事说谷歌正在讨论与著作权人如何看待这个问题，并进行一些初步的解决办法。
该公司一直在处理技术问题，包括如何让存储服务无缝工作与软件对用户的计算机，所以，似乎想只是另一个硬碟人员说，熟悉内情人士的有关事宜。
一份文件谷歌不经意地公布于网站，在2006年3月说，这是走向"能储存100 ％的用户数据， "两市"的电子邮件，网络历史，图片，书签"作为几个例子。该文件中提及了什么似乎是未经宣布谷歌举措，其中包括一名代号为" gdrive " ，并表示，他们可以帮助与微软竞争。
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http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB119612660573504716.html

附E文原文：
Google Plans Service to Store Users' Data
By KEVIN J. DELANEY and VAUHINI VARA
November 27, 2007; Page B1

Google Inc. wants to offer consumers a new way to store their files on its hard drives, in a strategy that could accelerate a shift to Web-based computing and intensify the Internet company's competition with Microsoft Corp.

Google is preparing a service that would let users store on its computers essentially all of the files they might keep on their personal-computer hard drives -- such as word-processing documents, digital music, video clips and images, say people familiar with the matter. The service could let users access their files via the Internet from different computers and mobile devices when they sign on with a password, and share them online with friends. It could be released as early as a few months from now, one of the people said.

The Mountain View, Calif., company plans to provide some free storage, with additional storage allotments available for a fee, say the people familiar with the matter. Planned pricing isn't known.

A Google spokeswoman declined to comment on any specific online storage plans beyond what it already offers as part of its email and other services. But she said in a statement that "storage is an important component of making Web [applications] fit easily into consumers' and business users' lives."

Google's push underlines a shift in how businesses and consumers approach computing. They are increasingly using the Web to access applications and files stored in massive computer data centers operated by tech companies such as Salesforce.com Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Google. Such arrangements, made possible by high-speed Internet connections between homes, offices and data centers, aim to ease users' technology headaches and, in some cases, cut their costs.

Other companies offer various Internet-based file storage services, but most have been slow to catch on with businesses and consumers. Some offerings, such as Yahoo Inc.'s Briefcase Web-based storage service, require users to go to a Web page and click through a few screens to upload a new file and set various limits. Other more sophisticated services have remained niche products.

Google's market power and focus on providing easy-to-use services heighten its chances of having an impact. Google is hoping to distinguish itself from existing online storage services partly by simplifying the process for transferring and opening files. Along with a Web-based interface, Google is trying to let users upload and access files directly from their PC desktops and have the file storage behave for consumers more like another hard drive that is handy at all times, say the people familiar with the matter.

Google faces hurdles on issues such as data privacy, copyright, the economics of adding storage capacity and the technical challenges of offering service without interruption. It is still possible that new developments could lead Google to shift tack or shelve plans for the storage offering in the coming months.

The effort -- at one point known internally at Google as "My Stuff" -- could add to the challenges facing Microsoft's core Windows operating system and Office productivity software businesses by speeding a shift toward Web-based computing. It also has the potential to affect the economics and usage of home computers, lessening consumers' need to buy big hard drives to store and back up all of their files, for example.

One limitation of such an Internet-based storage service is that it isn't accessible when a person's computer or phone is offline, such as when one is in an airplane, though he could still copy required files to the laptop or other device before disconnecting from the Internet.

For Google, one advantage of offering a broad data-storage service would be to potentially draw consumers to existing Google services that compete with Microsoft's Office applications suite, which includes Word, Outlook and Excel.

Google already effectively offers storage for consumers' files through Web applications such as its Docs word-processing, spreadsheet and presentation applications and its Gmail email. Users can upload photos to its Picasa Web Albums photo-hosting service, which provides one gigabyte of free storage. They can purchase from 10 gigabytes to 400 gigabytes additional storage for $20 to $500 per year. This storage can be shared by users' Gmail and Picasa accounts and soon with files for Docs.

Google is hoping the new storage service will help tie together some of its other services through a single search box, says one of the people familiar with the matter. So a user might be able to conduct a single search by keywords to find his own privately stored files, regardless of whether they're accessed through Picasa, Docs or a software program running on the user's computer.

Microsoft Corporate Vice President Chris Capossela says the company believes users want both software on their computers and Internet-based services. He said a class of consumers doesn't trust such Web-based storage options, and that Google wouldn't be able to use storage to steer users to its other services if those services aren't great to begin with. "We've spent so much time and energy understanding how to give customers the utmost assurance of their privacy," Mr. Capossela said.

For its part, Microsoft offers a test version of a service called Windows Live SkyDrive with one gigabyte of free storage.