For Google, 'forever' ends next July. That's when the end of unlimited cloud storage for educational users is slated to end. The actual announcement was made a year ago, but as this article notes, there is increasing angst in the educational community as the date approaches. I think the major issue here isn't so much that Google is charging for storage - when you get to 100 terabytes, it seems pretty reasonable to charge real money - but that it started as free to attract data and then became something you had to pay for. Customers who don't pay face a lot of work. As Mike Barker of the University of Arizona commented, "I have been migrating TBs of data off Google for months now. SLOW."
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