When you try to edit it, it takes you directly to the web site to edit it. For example, if you make a spreadsheet with Google Docs, you can't then open that spreadsheet in Excel or Numbers. It tries to act like Dropbox, synchronizing 'files' to your system, but anything created with Google Documents can't be edited with a local editor. He explains: 'Google Drive doesn't actually add any value to the existing Google App ecosystem. While Shelly warns against relying on a single-point of failure to store and protect your information currency, Newstex Vice President of Technology Chris Moyer adds another layer of consideration - added value. Of course the things that can go wrong are completely out of your control, just like financial investments – you have no say over new regulations, lawsuits, market conditions, you’re just hoping that your investment advisor picked the right investments.' - Shelly Palmer, You could make a profit, but if anything goes wrong, you lose. 'Single threading your business through a single point of failure is like putting all of your money in one pretty good investment and hoping for the best. So, what would possess me to put all of my InfoCurrency in one place? What is the upside? There is none. I’ve got information, the currency of my business, stored in all kinds of places – some safer than others. And right now, my business information is in my version of an Information Hedge Fund.

Shelly explains: 'I consider Information 'the' currency of the Information Age. Or, as I like to think of it, business with a single point of failure.'In other words, in Google's quest to make people Google-dependent, there is an added element of risk that most people won't even realize they're taking. However, not everyone was impressed by the Google Drive announcement and a question began brewing: 'What is the value of Google Drive?'Newstex Authoritative Content Publisher Shelly Palmer points out that, 'Google Drive is so integrated with Google Apps for Business, Google Docs and Google that it is destined to become the seminal point of 'the' paradigm shift to business in the cloud. Last week, the web was buzzing with news about Google Drive, the new tool from Google that is being positioned as the alternative to Dropbox, Box, SugarSync, and other cloud storage systems.

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