Yandex.Disk Takes On Dropbox, Google Drive & iCloud

Russia's biggest search engine, Yandex is taking popular cloud storage services like Dropbox, Google Drive and iCloud heads on. The company announced that '#-Link-Snipped-#' - the service that offers cloud storage will be preinstalled on Samsung's Ultrabooks in Russia. Yandex now plans on world dominance and has already added English language support. Expect Yandex.Disk to go international in near future. Partnering with Samsung is a big move for the Russian search giant and we think it's a win-win too. The company is offering 250 Gb of free storage to the customers of Samsung Ultrabooks before December 31. Yandex.Disk launched back in April and the service had capped the free storage capacity to 10 Gb.

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At present, Yandex seems to be the only cloud storage service that offers this much free space to its users. There is rumor that Google is also planning to launch a similar offer via Google Drive to its customers who buy Chromebook. Files stored on Yandex.Disk will be accessible from all devices and not just the Ultrabook. By enabling English language support in its service, Yandex will step out of Russia for the first time.

Cloud storage providers teaming up with handset makers isn't a new thing. We expect Yandex to find more partners as it expands its business worldwide. In fact, Samsung may just offer more of its hardware to Yandex to pre-install the Yandex.Disk.

Expect the cloud storage markets get very competitive in near future.

Via: Dropbox-Rival Yandex.Disk Now Preloaded On Samsung Ultrabooks In Russia; Next Stop: The World • TechCrunch

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