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Google Drive to hit 1 billion users mark this week
Last updated on Jul 28, 2018, 09:41 pm
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Google just can't stop growing.
Now, the tech giant has announced that its cloud-based storage platform, Google Drive, is set to hit the 1 billion users benchmark fairly soon.
The announcement came at the Google Cloud Next conference in San Francisco a couple of days back wherein Google said that Drive would hit the 1 billion mark "later this week".
Here's more.
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Google Drive
Google has been expanding Drive's functionalities of late
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Google Drive was launched six years back, in 2012, and its meteoric rise is perhaps a testament to cloud-based services being the next big thing.
Of late, in a bid to appeal more to its business-oriented customers, Google has been adding services like Team Drive and File Stream.
Additionally, Google has also launched a Drive-based backup and sync feature for all PCs and Macs.
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Data
Google Drive had already crossed 800 million users last year
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Last year, at Google's annual developers conference, I/O 2017, it was announced that Google Drive had reached the 800 million user mark, and had seen over 2 trillion file additions.
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Crown jewels
Drive to take a place among Google's crown jewels
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Notably, after crossing the 1 billion users mark, Drive will take a place among Google's crown jewels.
Several Google products, namely, Gmail, Chrome, Android, YouTube, Maps, and PlayStore, already have over 1 billion users, and Drive is soon set to join them.
Among them, Android, which became the biggest mobile OS last year, is perhaps the most successful, with over 2 billion users.
