The Cloud Storage Price War Begins, As Google Drive Gets A Massive Discount

March 13, 2014
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says that this due to a number of recent infrastructure improvements. Your move, Microsoft. Now while this is good news for consumers, the going will surely get tough for other (read smaller) cloud storage services like Dropbox, Box and more. If this price war goes on for a while, they will have trouble competing with companies like Microsoft and Google, with nearly unlimited pockets. It will all come down to the feature set they offer, then. Which is not such a bad thing, after all, when you think about it.]]>

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Mike Johnson is a writer for The Redmond Cloud - the most comprehensive source of news and information about Microsoft Azure and the Microsoft Cloud. He enjoys writing about Azure Security, IOT and the Blockchain.

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  • Competition is great for consumers. The one thing about Google is they can afford to price things cheaper than they could because of all the money and power they have.

    Jason Claven March 13, 2014 3:39 pm Reply
  • Wow! That’s a significant price cut. It doesn’t look like google is playing around.

    Bill Franklin March 13, 2014 5:03 pm Reply
  • This is interesting. I wonder if Microsoft is going to respond, and if they do, how quickly it’ll be. I’ll keep checking back to see if they do.

    Jake Phillips March 13, 2014 5:09 pm Reply
    • It will certainly be intriguing to see what Microsoft does. I must say, the price for 1TB of data a month now is ridiculously low. I’m shocked.

      Wayne Scott March 13, 2014 5:26 pm Reply
  • After seeing those prices, I wonder if it’s even feasible or worth it for Microsoft to go lower than those prices. Pretty extreme move from Google.

    Sally Black March 13, 2014 5:27 pm Reply

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