>> This seems to be work in progress for Google Cloud Storage. Are   
>> there plans to support Google Drive as well?

> This thread might be interesting ;-)

> http://markmail.org/thread/auywfaukmzcwizak

Indeed it is. Thanks again!

Seems there might be something coming. I don't understand the distinction made 
between "documents" and "blobs" though. The entities uploaded to Google Drive 
can be up to 1TB (or 1TiB?) in size, so I'd think that qualifies as large. They 
certainly are binaries. I guess jclouds' "blobs" are more than the name 
suggests? All I really care for is some reasonable easily usable interface to 
ferry opaque chunks of data back and forth between the local host and the 
target "in the cloud". The Java SDK for Google's Drive is, uh,  not exactly 
intuitive (not to speak of OAuth2), so I was hoping for jclouds to make my job 
a bit easier ;-)

Looking at [1], Google Drive matches the criteria listed there for a BlobStore
•Globally addressable
•Key, value with metadata
•Accessed via HTTP
•Containers are provisioned on demand through API calls
•Unlimited scaling
•Most are billed on a usage basis
with the exception of Containers (not sure about "unlimited" scaling, but I 
believe up to 16TB per account it is limited only by your budget).But don't 
quote me on such, I'm still trying to understand the various offerings and 
explore my options.

~ Guenther


[1] http://jclouds.apache.org/start/blobstore/

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