Following the Drive for work launched earlier this year, Google has announced Drive for Education students. The service is available to those schools that use Google Apps for Education.
The company has described the storage as infinitely large and ultra-secure. Besides the unlimited storage, each file size can be as large as 5TB with access to Google Apps Vault for message archiving.
It also comes to light that Google Apps Vault for business will be made available and that it is planned to enhance features like auditing, archiving emails and chats aimed at educational users. It is however not known when the rollout will be completed.
Currently Google Apps for Education restricts free storage space to 30GB for the account. It is widely believed that the decision to do away with space restriction will encourage students to order the $10-a-month Drive after graduation.
About the free service, Ben Schrom, PM Google Apps for Education, wrote in a blog post, “No more worrying about how much space you have left or about which user needs more gigabytes.”
Google underlined the security features of the Drive saying that every file uploaded will be encrypted even as it travels to the data centre and in the Google’s servers as well.
The objective of the service is to enable students to put their focus on learning experience and not the technology that drives it, and it further aims to take the worry off the minds with regard to storage capacity.
