Google Drive to hit 1 billion users mark this week
What's the story
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.
Google Drive
Google has been expanding Drive's functionalities of late
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.
Data
Google Drive had already crossed 800 million users last year
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.
Crown jewels
Drive to take a place among Google's crown jewels
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.