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Sometimes practically and other times with wild, <a href="//www.google.com/loon/" target="_blank">imaginative</a>—or even <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=driverless+cars+google&espv=2&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=24_-U8_pJNGXyASW44GYCg&ved=0CEAQsAQ&biw=1913&bih=982" target="_blank">highly unexpected</a>—ideas. These ideas are born through education, when curiosity meets access to information. That’s why we have a vested interest in, and commitment to, learning in all forms. It’s also why we’re starting the <a href="http://googleforeducation.blogspot.com/">Google for Education Blog</a>: a new destination to share our work that’s happening across education, from products to programs, from the practical to the unimaginable.<br /><br />One of our goals is to help more students feel engaged and love learning, to encourage their curiosity, to let them work together, to try something new, to make stuff, and to always try again. Through Programs like <a href="https://www.madewithcode.com/" target="_blank">Made with Code</a>, <a href="//www.google.com/doodle4google" target="_blank">Doodle 4 Google</a>, and the <a href="https://www.googlesciencefair.com/en/" target="_blank">Google Science Fair</a>, we strive to help students discover the problems they are passionate about solving. Time and time again youth prove that you don’t always have to be a grown-up to bring forward extraordinary solutions. This blog will be a place to hear about those programs and talented young people.<br /><br />Since behind every student are great teachers, we also focus on building products and tools designed for the classroom that help educators do what they do best, even better. Collaborative tools like <a href="//www.google.com/edu/apps/" target="_blank">Google Apps for Education</a> with <a href="//www.google.com/intl/en/edu/classroom/" target="_blank">Classroom</a>, easy-to-manage affordable devices like <a href="//www.google.com/edu/chromebooks/" target="_blank">Chromebooks</a> and <a href="//www.google.com/edu/tablets/" target="_blank">tablets</a>, and limitless educational content in <a href="//www.google.com/edu/play/" target="_blank">Google Play for Education</a> and <a href="//www.youtube.com/" target="_blank">YouTube</a> help make learning possible—and fun—outside the four walls of the classroom.<br /><br />The future is upon us, which is so apparent when working on learning. As former U.S. Secretary of Education Richard Riley says, “We are currently preparing students for jobs that don’t yet exist, using technologies that haven’t been invented, in order to solve problems we don’t even know are problems yet.” We hope you’ll find this blog useful—along with our <a href="https://plus.google.com/+GoogleforEducation" target="_blank">Google+</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/GoogleForEdu" target="_blank">Twitter</a> channels—as we continue to share more updates and stories from across Google for Education, our dedicated partners, innovative teachers, and inspiring students.</div><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/FXDTlJ3j9eo" width="640"></iframe></div> </script> <noscript> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="byline-author">Posted by Megan Smith, Vice President, Google[x]</span><br /><br /><i>(Cross-posted on the <a href="http://googleforeducation.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Google for Education Blog</a>)</i><br /><br />We love to focus on solving problems. Sometimes practically and other times with wild, <a href="//www.google.com/loon/" target="_blank">imaginative</a>—or even <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=driverless+cars+google&espv=2&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=24_-U8_pJNGXyASW44GYCg&ved=0CEAQsAQ&biw=1913&bih=982" target="_blank">highly unexpected</a>—ideas. These ideas are born through education, when curiosity meets access to information. That’s why we have a vested interest in, and commitment to, learning in all forms. It’s also why we’re starting the <a href="http://googleforeducation.blogspot.com/">Google for Education Blog</a>: a new destination to share our work that’s happening across education, from products to programs, from the practical to the unimaginable.<br /><br />One of our goals is to help more students feel engaged and love learning, to encourage their curiosity, to let them work together, to try something new, to make stuff, and to always try again. Through Programs like <a href="https://www.madewithcode.com/" target="_blank">Made with Code</a>, <a href="//www.google.com/doodle4google" target="_blank">Doodle 4 Google</a>, and the <a href="https://www.googlesciencefair.com/en/" target="_blank">Google Science Fair</a>, we strive to help students discover the problems they are passionate about solving. Time and time again youth prove that you don’t always have to be a grown-up to bring forward extraordinary solutions. This blog will be a place to hear about those programs and talented young people.<br /><br />Since behind every student are great teachers, we also focus on building products and tools designed for the classroom that help educators do what they do best, even better. Collaborative tools like <a href="//www.google.com/edu/apps/" target="_blank">Google Apps for Education</a> with <a href="//www.google.com/intl/en/edu/classroom/" target="_blank">Classroom</a>, easy-to-manage affordable devices like <a href="//www.google.com/edu/chromebooks/" target="_blank">Chromebooks</a> and <a href="//www.google.com/edu/tablets/" target="_blank">tablets</a>, and limitless educational content in <a href="//www.google.com/edu/play/" target="_blank">Google Play for Education</a> and <a href="//www.youtube.com/" target="_blank">YouTube</a> help make learning possible—and fun—outside the four walls of the classroom.<br /><br />The future is upon us, which is so apparent when working on learning. As former U.S. Secretary of Education Richard Riley says, “We are currently preparing students for jobs that don’t yet exist, using technologies that haven’t been invented, in order to solve problems we don’t even know are problems yet.” We hope you’ll find this blog useful—along with our <a href="https://plus.google.com/+GoogleforEducation" target="_blank">Google+</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/GoogleForEdu" target="_blank">Twitter</a> channels—as we continue to share more updates and stories from across Google for Education, our dedicated partners, innovative teachers, and inspiring students.</div><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/FXDTlJ3j9eo" width="640"></iframe></div> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='gplus-share social-wrapper' data-href='https://plus.google.com/share?url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2014/08/welcome-to-google-for-education-blog.html'> <img alt='Share on Google+' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/branding/google_plus/2x/ic_w_post_gplus_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Google Cloud Blog:Welcome to the Google for Education Blog&url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2014/08/welcome-to-google-for-education-blog.html&via=gsuite'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2014/08/welcome-to-google-for-education-blog.html'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> <div class='comment-container'> <i class='comment-img material-icons'>  </i> <span class='cmt_count_iframe_holder' data-count='1' data-onclick='' data-post-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2014/08/welcome-to-google-for-education-blog.html' data-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2014/08/welcome-to-google-for-education-blog.html' style='color: #4184F3;'></span> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='cmt_iframe_holder' data-href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2014/08/welcome-to-google-for-education-blog.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> <span class='labels-caption'> Labels: </span> <span class='labels'> <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Google%20for%20Education' rel='tag'> Google for Education </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='5319437179198507630' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2014/08/google-cloud-is-secure-but-you-don-have.html' itemprop='url' title='Google's cloud is secure. But you don't have to take our word for it.'> Google's cloud is secure. But you don't have to take our word for it. </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Wednesday, August 27, 2014 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="byline-author">Posted by Eran Feigenbaum, Director of Security, Google Apps</span> <br /><br />No matter how you slice it, mobile and cloud are essential for future business growth and productivity. This is driving increases in security spending as organizations wrestle with threats and regulatory compliance — <a href="http://www.csoonline.com/article/2597611/security-leadership/security-spending-gets-boost-from-mobile-social-and-cloud-says-gartner.html" target="_blank">according to Gartner</a>, the computer security industry will reach $71 billion this year, which is a 7.9 percent increase over 2013. <br /><br />To help organizations spend their money wisely, it’s essential that cloud companies are transparent about their security capabilities. Since we see transparency as a crucial way to earn and maintain our customers’ confidence, we ask independent auditors to examine the controls in our systems and operations on a regular basis. The audits are rigorous, and customers can use these reports to make sure Google meets their compliance and data protection needs.<br /><br />We’re proud to announce we have received an updated <a href="https://services.google.com/fh/files/blogs/btd-sec-op-2014-grey.pdf" target="_blank">ISO 27001 certificate</a> and <a href="https://services.google.com/fh/files/blogs/btd-sec-op-2014-grey.pdf" target="_blank">SOC 2 and SOC 3 Type II audit report</a>, which are the most widely recognized, internationally accepted independent security compliance reports. These audits refresh our coverage for Google Apps for Business and Education, as well Google Cloud Platform, and we’ve expanded the scope to include Google+ and Hangouts. To make it easier for everyone to verify our security, we’re now publishing our updated <a href="https://services.google.com/fh/files/blogs/google-iso27001-certificate-2014.pdf" target="_blank">ISO 27001 certificate</a> and new SOC3 audit <a href="https://support.google.com/enterprisehelp/answer/6056694" target="_blank">report</a> for the first time, on our Google Enterprise <a href="https://www.google.com/enterprise/whygoogle.html" target="_blank">security page</a>. <br /><br />Keeping your data safe is at the core of what we do. That’s why we hire the world’s foremost experts in security—the team is now comprised of over 450 full-time engineers—to keep customers’ data secure from imminent and evolving threats. These certifications, along with our existing offerings of FISMA for Google Apps for Government, support for FERPA and COPPA compliance in Google Apps for Education, model contract clauses for Google Apps customers who operate within Europe, and HIPAA business associate agreements for organizations with protected health information, help assure our customers and their regulators that we’re committed to keeping their data and that of their users secure, private and compliant. </div> </script> <noscript> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="byline-author">Posted by Eran Feigenbaum, Director of Security, Google Apps</span> <br /><br />No matter how you slice it, mobile and cloud are essential for future business growth and productivity. This is driving increases in security spending as organizations wrestle with threats and regulatory compliance — <a href="http://www.csoonline.com/article/2597611/security-leadership/security-spending-gets-boost-from-mobile-social-and-cloud-says-gartner.html" target="_blank">according to Gartner</a>, the computer security industry will reach $71 billion this year, which is a 7.9 percent increase over 2013. <br /><br />To help organizations spend their money wisely, it’s essential that cloud companies are transparent about their security capabilities. Since we see transparency as a crucial way to earn and maintain our customers’ confidence, we ask independent auditors to examine the controls in our systems and operations on a regular basis. The audits are rigorous, and customers can use these reports to make sure Google meets their compliance and data protection needs.<br /><br />We’re proud to announce we have received an updated <a href="https://services.google.com/fh/files/blogs/btd-sec-op-2014-grey.pdf" target="_blank">ISO 27001 certificate</a> and <a href="https://services.google.com/fh/files/blogs/btd-sec-op-2014-grey.pdf" target="_blank">SOC 2 and SOC 3 Type II audit report</a>, which are the most widely recognized, internationally accepted independent security compliance reports. These audits refresh our coverage for Google Apps for Business and Education, as well Google Cloud Platform, and we’ve expanded the scope to include Google+ and Hangouts. To make it easier for everyone to verify our security, we’re now publishing our updated <a href="https://services.google.com/fh/files/blogs/google-iso27001-certificate-2014.pdf" target="_blank">ISO 27001 certificate</a> and new SOC3 audit <a href="https://support.google.com/enterprisehelp/answer/6056694" target="_blank">report</a> for the first time, on our Google Enterprise <a href="https://www.google.com/enterprise/whygoogle.html" target="_blank">security page</a>. <br /><br />Keeping your data safe is at the core of what we do. That’s why we hire the world’s foremost experts in security—the team is now comprised of over 450 full-time engineers—to keep customers’ data secure from imminent and evolving threats. These certifications, along with our existing offerings of FISMA for Google Apps for Government, support for FERPA and COPPA compliance in Google Apps for Education, model contract clauses for Google Apps customers who operate within Europe, and HIPAA business associate agreements for organizations with protected health information, help assure our customers and their regulators that we’re committed to keeping their data and that of their users secure, private and compliant. </div> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='gplus-share social-wrapper' data-href='https://plus.google.com/share?url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2014/08/google-cloud-is-secure-but-you-don-have.html'> <img alt='Share on Google+' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/branding/google_plus/2x/ic_w_post_gplus_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Google Cloud Blog:Google's cloud is secure. 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Map visualization tools help organizations share facts and brand stories with all of their stakeholders — in real time — better than ever before. Read more about the six ways <a href="https://seefurther.withgoogle.com/?utm_source=blog&utm_medium=&utm_campaign=NA-LCS-2014-GEO-HZL-MapsGG-Intro-Blog--Online&utm_content=" target="_blank">Maps are Going Google</a>.</i> <br /><br />People around the world are taking an interest in where their food originates and the quality of ingredients, especially in France, where the food and wine are sources of national pride. That’s why French yogurt company <a href="http://www.les2vaches.com/" target="_blank">Les 2 Vaches</a> (The Two Cows) is committed to producing the best quality yogurt possible, with organic dairy from farmers who use ethical, sustainable labor practices.<br /><br />But it isn’t enough for the company to say it uses the highest quality ingredients — it wants the public to know the locations of the farms that provide its ingredients. “Les 2 Vaches believes in organic food. We’re here to help change things, to develop a business that creates value across the food chain,” says Aude Gamberini, Marketing and Communications Manager, Les 2 Vaches.<br /><br />To address this, in early 2014, the company launched the <a href="http://www.les2vaches.com/savoircequonmange/" target="_blank">Know What You Eat</a> website that uses <a href="http://www.les2vaches.com/savoircequonmange/" target="_blank">Google Maps</a> to reveal the geographical origin of each ingredient, including organic milk from France, sugarcane from Brazil, vanilla from Germany and wild blueberries harvested in Poland. The map also shows where its products are stored and prepared, with information about the suppliers and partner businesses related to the brand. The maps can be accessed through supermarket displays, QR codes on advertising materials and through the company’s social networks.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDuLDHN0POP9x6aVvA7Y0qpVKyE-OOlVDZ6Z-10B754zqijfuNRC5jLcFJy4Gds75Ok0vQXhmB20KiNnyRVQMj06mAnu0RvxXFoqLEVC39DdfC9C81CbTJteh87xg-zEud2Z6-VmJw6pY/s1600/les2vaches.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="341" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDuLDHN0POP9x6aVvA7Y0qpVKyE-OOlVDZ6Z-10B754zqijfuNRC5jLcFJy4Gds75Ok0vQXhmB20KiNnyRVQMj06mAnu0RvxXFoqLEVC39DdfC9C81CbTJteh87xg-zEud2Z6-VmJw6pY/s1600/les2vaches.png" width="640" /></a></div>Customers are eating it up: an initial media campaign brought thousands of visitors to the new site. With relevant details overlayed on a map of the entire ingredient supply chain, Les 2 Vaches achieved greater brand transparency and enhanced its reputation. Plus, the company doesn’t need to spend as much time on PR and can focus more on sourcing the best ingredients.<br /><br />As the company’s website says, “we’re not telling you we’re perfect, but we’re telling you what we’re doing.” The French have a high standard for their food, so knowing the origin of ingredients provides greater insight into the quality of food. Plus, consumers feel better supporting a company whose practices they respect and stand behind.<br /><br />View our <a href="https://seefurther.withgoogle.com/inform-stakeholders?utm_source=blog&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=NA-LCS-2014-GEO-HZL-MapsGG-Inform-Blog--Online&utm_content=organic" target="_blank">website</a> to learn more about how forward-thinking organizations are mapping the way to brand loyalty and more informed communities. For information about how maps can help your organization inform stakeholders quickly and reliably, <a href="https://seefurther.withgoogle.com/inform-stakeholders?utm_source=blog&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=NA-LCS-2014-GEO-HZL-MapsGG-Inform-Blog--Online&utm_content=organic" target="_blank">sign up</a> for our “Maps are going Google” series.</div> </script> <noscript> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="byline-author">Posted by Veronique Lafargue, Senior Marketing Manager, Google Maps for Business<br /></span> <br /><br /><i><b>Editor's note:</b> Every organization is charged with keeping stakeholders informed. Map visualization tools help organizations share facts and brand stories with all of their stakeholders — in real time — better than ever before. Read more about the six ways <a href="https://seefurther.withgoogle.com/?utm_source=blog&utm_medium=&utm_campaign=NA-LCS-2014-GEO-HZL-MapsGG-Intro-Blog--Online&utm_content=" target="_blank">Maps are Going Google</a>.</i> <br /><br />People around the world are taking an interest in where their food originates and the quality of ingredients, especially in France, where the food and wine are sources of national pride. That’s why French yogurt company <a href="http://www.les2vaches.com/" target="_blank">Les 2 Vaches</a> (The Two Cows) is committed to producing the best quality yogurt possible, with organic dairy from farmers who use ethical, sustainable labor practices.<br /><br />But it isn’t enough for the company to say it uses the highest quality ingredients — it wants the public to know the locations of the farms that provide its ingredients. “Les 2 Vaches believes in organic food. We’re here to help change things, to develop a business that creates value across the food chain,” says Aude Gamberini, Marketing and Communications Manager, Les 2 Vaches.<br /><br />To address this, in early 2014, the company launched the <a href="http://www.les2vaches.com/savoircequonmange/" target="_blank">Know What You Eat</a> website that uses <a href="http://www.les2vaches.com/savoircequonmange/" target="_blank">Google Maps</a> to reveal the geographical origin of each ingredient, including organic milk from France, sugarcane from Brazil, vanilla from Germany and wild blueberries harvested in Poland. The map also shows where its products are stored and prepared, with information about the suppliers and partner businesses related to the brand. The maps can be accessed through supermarket displays, QR codes on advertising materials and through the company’s social networks.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDuLDHN0POP9x6aVvA7Y0qpVKyE-OOlVDZ6Z-10B754zqijfuNRC5jLcFJy4Gds75Ok0vQXhmB20KiNnyRVQMj06mAnu0RvxXFoqLEVC39DdfC9C81CbTJteh87xg-zEud2Z6-VmJw6pY/s1600/les2vaches.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="341" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDuLDHN0POP9x6aVvA7Y0qpVKyE-OOlVDZ6Z-10B754zqijfuNRC5jLcFJy4Gds75Ok0vQXhmB20KiNnyRVQMj06mAnu0RvxXFoqLEVC39DdfC9C81CbTJteh87xg-zEud2Z6-VmJw6pY/s1600/les2vaches.png" width="640" /></a></div>Customers are eating it up: an initial media campaign brought thousands of visitors to the new site. With relevant details overlayed on a map of the entire ingredient supply chain, Les 2 Vaches achieved greater brand transparency and enhanced its reputation. Plus, the company doesn’t need to spend as much time on PR and can focus more on sourcing the best ingredients.<br /><br />As the company’s website says, “we’re not telling you we’re perfect, but we’re telling you what we’re doing.” The French have a high standard for their food, so knowing the origin of ingredients provides greater insight into the quality of food. Plus, consumers feel better supporting a company whose practices they respect and stand behind.<br /><br />View our <a href="https://seefurther.withgoogle.com/inform-stakeholders?utm_source=blog&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=NA-LCS-2014-GEO-HZL-MapsGG-Inform-Blog--Online&utm_content=organic" target="_blank">website</a> to learn more about how forward-thinking organizations are mapping the way to brand loyalty and more informed communities. For information about how maps can help your organization inform stakeholders quickly and reliably, <a href="https://seefurther.withgoogle.com/inform-stakeholders?utm_source=blog&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=NA-LCS-2014-GEO-HZL-MapsGG-Inform-Blog--Online&utm_content=organic" target="_blank">sign up</a> for our “Maps are going Google” series.</div> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='gplus-share social-wrapper' data-href='https://plus.google.com/share?url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2014/08/maps-are-going-google-inform.html'> <img alt='Share on Google+' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/branding/google_plus/2x/ic_w_post_gplus_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Google Cloud Blog:Maps are Going Google: Inform Stakeholders Quickly and Reliably&url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2014/08/maps-are-going-google-inform.html&via=gsuite'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2014/08/maps-are-going-google-inform.html'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> <div class='comment-container'> <i class='comment-img material-icons'>  </i> <span class='cmt_count_iframe_holder' data-count='6' data-onclick='' data-post-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2014/08/maps-are-going-google-inform.html' data-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2014/08/maps-are-going-google-inform.html' style='color: #4184F3;'></span> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='cmt_iframe_holder' data-href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2014/08/maps-are-going-google-inform.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> <span class='labels-caption'> Labels: </span> <span class='labels'> <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Google%20Maps%20for%20Business' rel='tag'> Google Maps for Business </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='4278772759090473324' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2014/08/getting-things-done-office-editing-on.html' itemprop='url' title='Getting things done: Office editing on iOS'> Getting things done: Office editing on iOS </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Monday, August 25, 2014 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="byline-author">Posted by Li-Wei Lee, Software Engineer</span><br /><br />Our phones and tablets help us get things done at work, but sometimes, you’re on the subway with no reception and need to update your spreadsheet before you get to the client’s office. Or you desperately need to make edits to your marketing strategy PowerPoint before you present, but you only brought your iPad to the meeting. We’ve all been there, but now there’s a way out.<br /><br />With today’s launch of the new <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/app/id879478102" target="_blank">Slides</a> app on iOS and updates to the <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/app/id842842640" target="_blank">Docs</a> and <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/app/id842849113" target="_blank">Sheets</a> apps, we’re delivering on our <a href="http://googledrive.blogspot.com/2014/06/newdocssheetsslides.html" target="_blank">promise</a> to make it possible for you to work with any file, on any device, any time. Now you can use the Google Docs, Sheets and Slides apps on your iPad or iPhone and all other devices (your Chromebook, laptop, Android phone or tablet), to complete the same tasks—online or offline. In addition, you can open, create and edit native Microsoft Office files with the Google Docs suite on iOS.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaEMiJcHbaLKwmajRaLPFcm0HOy5x-Iezb7KXs3oQfXbLeRMM6KrJ39RStJWOHG1Cp0qTveQRc6KB7_Fdz01TOaIL22qY72tUDgG7JP2PKciF6-AlfxjTHj-j76XpkIJ7-TXSVMCufMv4/s1600/iOS_shots_forBlog+(1).png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="458" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaEMiJcHbaLKwmajRaLPFcm0HOy5x-Iezb7KXs3oQfXbLeRMM6KrJ39RStJWOHG1Cp0qTveQRc6KB7_Fdz01TOaIL22qY72tUDgG7JP2PKciF6-AlfxjTHj-j76XpkIJ7-TXSVMCufMv4/s1600/iOS_shots_forBlog+(1).png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><a href="http://media.wix.com/ugd/f2b43d_dd01ebd3fe364461ad357fbd6e35ca3f.pdf" target="_blank">According to SoftWatch</a> about 80 percent of Office licenses are only lightly used, with many employees only working with Office for a handful of minutes a day or not at all. If you still have the occasional need, Google has you covered. Use Docs, Sheets and Slides to open up a contract that’s been saved in Word without converting the file, and copy over the crucial figures to an Excel spreadsheet from the client to do some number-crunching on your iPad. Then quickly pop those calculations over to the PowerPoint deck before you walk into a sales meeting, all from whichever device is most convenient. And if you want to collaborate in real-time with your colleagues, you can simply convert these old Office files into Docs, Sheets or Slides and start working together immediately. You’ll even be able to <a href="https://support.google.com/docs/answer/2375012?hl=en" target="_blank">make edits when you’re offline</a>, whether you’re using the app on your phone or tablet, or <a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/office-editing-for-docs-s/gbkeegbaiigmenfmjfclcdgdpimamgkj" target="_blank">Chrome on your laptop</a>.<br /><br />No one wants to worry about what format their documents are in or whether they have the right app on their phone or tablet. Whether you’re working on a file originally created in Microsoft Office, or one created in <a href="//www.google.com/enterprise/apps/business/products/docs/" target="_blank">Docs</a>, <a href="//www.google.com/enterprise/apps/business/products/sheets/" target="_blank">Sheets</a> or <a href="//www.google.com/enterprise/apps/business/products/slides/" target="_blank">Slides</a> on an Android phone, tablet, iPhone, iPad, Chromebook or laptop, with or without an internet connection, you can do all this and more with <a href="//www.google.com/enterprise/apps/business/products.html" target="_blank">Google Apps</a>.<br /><br /></div> </script> <noscript> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="byline-author">Posted by Li-Wei Lee, Software Engineer</span><br /><br />Our phones and tablets help us get things done at work, but sometimes, you’re on the subway with no reception and need to update your spreadsheet before you get to the client’s office. Or you desperately need to make edits to your marketing strategy PowerPoint before you present, but you only brought your iPad to the meeting. We’ve all been there, but now there’s a way out.<br /><br />With today’s launch of the new <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/app/id879478102" target="_blank">Slides</a> app on iOS and updates to the <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/app/id842842640" target="_blank">Docs</a> and <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/app/id842849113" target="_blank">Sheets</a> apps, we’re delivering on our <a href="http://googledrive.blogspot.com/2014/06/newdocssheetsslides.html" target="_blank">promise</a> to make it possible for you to work with any file, on any device, any time. Now you can use the Google Docs, Sheets and Slides apps on your iPad or iPhone and all other devices (your Chromebook, laptop, Android phone or tablet), to complete the same tasks—online or offline. In addition, you can open, create and edit native Microsoft Office files with the Google Docs suite on iOS.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaEMiJcHbaLKwmajRaLPFcm0HOy5x-Iezb7KXs3oQfXbLeRMM6KrJ39RStJWOHG1Cp0qTveQRc6KB7_Fdz01TOaIL22qY72tUDgG7JP2PKciF6-AlfxjTHj-j76XpkIJ7-TXSVMCufMv4/s1600/iOS_shots_forBlog+(1).png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="458" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaEMiJcHbaLKwmajRaLPFcm0HOy5x-Iezb7KXs3oQfXbLeRMM6KrJ39RStJWOHG1Cp0qTveQRc6KB7_Fdz01TOaIL22qY72tUDgG7JP2PKciF6-AlfxjTHj-j76XpkIJ7-TXSVMCufMv4/s1600/iOS_shots_forBlog+(1).png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><a href="http://media.wix.com/ugd/f2b43d_dd01ebd3fe364461ad357fbd6e35ca3f.pdf" target="_blank">According to SoftWatch</a> about 80 percent of Office licenses are only lightly used, with many employees only working with Office for a handful of minutes a day or not at all. If you still have the occasional need, Google has you covered. Use Docs, Sheets and Slides to open up a contract that’s been saved in Word without converting the file, and copy over the crucial figures to an Excel spreadsheet from the client to do some number-crunching on your iPad. Then quickly pop those calculations over to the PowerPoint deck before you walk into a sales meeting, all from whichever device is most convenient. And if you want to collaborate in real-time with your colleagues, you can simply convert these old Office files into Docs, Sheets or Slides and start working together immediately. You’ll even be able to <a href="https://support.google.com/docs/answer/2375012?hl=en" target="_blank">make edits when you’re offline</a>, whether you’re using the app on your phone or tablet, or <a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/office-editing-for-docs-s/gbkeegbaiigmenfmjfclcdgdpimamgkj" target="_blank">Chrome on your laptop</a>.<br /><br />No one wants to worry about what format their documents are in or whether they have the right app on their phone or tablet. Whether you’re working on a file originally created in Microsoft Office, or one created in <a href="//www.google.com/enterprise/apps/business/products/docs/" target="_blank">Docs</a>, <a href="//www.google.com/enterprise/apps/business/products/sheets/" target="_blank">Sheets</a> or <a href="//www.google.com/enterprise/apps/business/products/slides/" target="_blank">Slides</a> on an Android phone, tablet, iPhone, iPad, Chromebook or laptop, with or without an internet connection, you can do all this and more with <a href="//www.google.com/enterprise/apps/business/products.html" target="_blank">Google Apps</a>.<br /><br /></div> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='gplus-share social-wrapper' data-href='https://plus.google.com/share?url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2014/08/getting-things-done-office-editing-on.html'> <img alt='Share on Google+' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/branding/google_plus/2x/ic_w_post_gplus_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Google Cloud Blog:Getting things done: Office editing on iOS&url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2014/08/getting-things-done-office-editing-on.html&via=gsuite'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2014/08/getting-things-done-office-editing-on.html'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> <div class='comment-container'> <i class='comment-img material-icons'>  </i> <span class='cmt_count_iframe_holder' data-count='2' data-onclick='' data-post-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2014/08/getting-things-done-office-editing-on.html' data-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2014/08/getting-things-done-office-editing-on.html' style='color: #4184F3;'></span> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='cmt_iframe_holder' data-href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2014/08/getting-things-done-office-editing-on.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> <span class='labels-caption'> Labels: </span> <span class='labels'> <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Google%20Sheets' rel='tag'> Google Sheets </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Google%20Slides%20API' rel='tag'> Google Slides API </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='3011722410732505918' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2014/08/hotter-than-your-morning-coffee-google.html' itemprop='url' title='Hotter than your morning coffee: Google Drive for Work'> Hotter than your morning coffee: Google Drive for Work </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Thursday, August 21, 2014 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="byline-author">Posted by Scott Johnston, Director of Product Management, Google Drive</span> <br /><br />People want tools that are both powerful and easy to use. For employees, that means they should be able to access their work wherever they are, on their favorite device or share their work securely with their colleagues, even if they’re in different offices, cities or countries. For IT managers, that means never worrying about storage quotas again, or being able to track access and sharing across users and files. We realize how important this is, so earlier this summer we <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2014/06/unlimit-your-business-with-google-drive.html" target="_blank">introduced Google Drive for Work</a>, a package that wraps all of this together for just $10 per user per month. Here’s a look at what’s been brewing with Drive for Work over the past two months.<br /><br /><b>Helping employees collaborate on the go</b><br /><br />Before we introduced Drive for Work, businesses like retailer <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2013/11/chicos-cuts-costs-and-goes-global-with.html" target="_blank">Chico’s</a> and aerospace and defense company <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2014/06/aerospace-and-defense-company-rockwell_18.html" target="_blank">Rockwell Collins</a> were using Drive to increase collaboration across distributed teams. <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2014/07/travis-perkins-plc-builds-powerful.html" target="_blank">Travis Perkins</a> relies on Google Drive to store and share more than 1.3 million documents across thousands of physical locations, to help reduce employee travel and save time. <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2014/07/posted-by-marco-grieco-business.html" target="_blank">OVS</a> uses Google Drive to streamline its supply chain by sharing and syncing their files across desktops, tablets and smartphones so people have the information they need, no matter where they are or what device they’re using.<br /><br />Today more than 1,800 businesses sign up for Drive for Work each week. Customers like <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2014/02/weddingwire-helps-millions-of-engaged.html" target="_blank">WeddingWire</a> are taking advantage of the full capabilities of Drive for Work to help provide their employees with the collaboration and file sharing tools they need on any device, whether they’re in the office or on the road.<br /><br /><b>Extending the Drive ecosystem</b><br /><b><br /></b>Drive for Work includes everything you need to keep all your work safe, easy to share and available anywhere. A growing number of partners are building tools on top of the Drive platform to meet the particular needs of our customers. In addition to the new <a href="https://support.google.com/a/answer/4579696?hl=en" target="_blank">Audit view</a> built into the admin console, Drive for Work also includes an Audit API that partners have used to build <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2014/07/advanced-security-for-google-drive-for.html" target="_blank">advanced insight and security extensions</a> like Data Loss Prevention (DLP). Other partners have built tools to help <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2014/08/how-to-move-your-files-to-google-drive.html" target="_blank">move business content into Drive</a> from any location, including old file servers, local hard drives or other cloud storage products.<br /><br /><b>Keeping your work safe and available</b><br /><br />To help keep your work safe, all files uploaded to Google Drive will be encrypted, not only from your device to Google and in transit between Google data centers, but also at rest on Google servers. Our reliability engineers monitor Google’s systems 24x7 in order to quickly identify and address any issues that might arise. Last year, Google Drive achieved 99.985% availability, which averages to less than 90 minutes of disruption per year (our SLA guarantees 99.9%). If there’s ever an issue, you can read up-to-date status information on the <a href="//google.com/appsstatus" target="_blank">Status Dashboard</a>, and if you ever need to speak to someone, <a href="https://support.google.com/a/table/3247295?hl=en" target="_blank">help is just a call away in over a dozen languages across 50 countries</a>.<br /><br />If you’d like to join the more than 190 million people actively using Drive, you can <a href="//www.google.com/drive/work" target="_blank">learn more</a> about Drive for Work online or <a href="//www.google.com/enterprise/apps/business/driveforwork/index.html#display=cs-dialog-form" target="_blank">contact us</a> for more information. If you’re already a Google Apps customer, you can upgrade with just a couple of clicks in the <a href="https://support.google.com/a/answer/6048423" target="_blank">Admin console</a>. <br /><br />Collaborating should be easy. Let technology do the hard work and help you get back to what’s most important — your business.</div> </script> <noscript> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="byline-author">Posted by Scott Johnston, Director of Product Management, Google Drive</span> <br /><br />People want tools that are both powerful and easy to use. For employees, that means they should be able to access their work wherever they are, on their favorite device or share their work securely with their colleagues, even if they’re in different offices, cities or countries. For IT managers, that means never worrying about storage quotas again, or being able to track access and sharing across users and files. We realize how important this is, so earlier this summer we <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2014/06/unlimit-your-business-with-google-drive.html" target="_blank">introduced Google Drive for Work</a>, a package that wraps all of this together for just $10 per user per month. Here’s a look at what’s been brewing with Drive for Work over the past two months.<br /><br /><b>Helping employees collaborate on the go</b><br /><br />Before we introduced Drive for Work, businesses like retailer <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2013/11/chicos-cuts-costs-and-goes-global-with.html" target="_blank">Chico’s</a> and aerospace and defense company <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2014/06/aerospace-and-defense-company-rockwell_18.html" target="_blank">Rockwell Collins</a> were using Drive to increase collaboration across distributed teams. <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2014/07/travis-perkins-plc-builds-powerful.html" target="_blank">Travis Perkins</a> relies on Google Drive to store and share more than 1.3 million documents across thousands of physical locations, to help reduce employee travel and save time. <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2014/07/posted-by-marco-grieco-business.html" target="_blank">OVS</a> uses Google Drive to streamline its supply chain by sharing and syncing their files across desktops, tablets and smartphones so people have the information they need, no matter where they are or what device they’re using.<br /><br />Today more than 1,800 businesses sign up for Drive for Work each week. Customers like <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2014/02/weddingwire-helps-millions-of-engaged.html" target="_blank">WeddingWire</a> are taking advantage of the full capabilities of Drive for Work to help provide their employees with the collaboration and file sharing tools they need on any device, whether they’re in the office or on the road.<br /><br /><b>Extending the Drive ecosystem</b><br /><b><br /></b>Drive for Work includes everything you need to keep all your work safe, easy to share and available anywhere. A growing number of partners are building tools on top of the Drive platform to meet the particular needs of our customers. In addition to the new <a href="https://support.google.com/a/answer/4579696?hl=en" target="_blank">Audit view</a> built into the admin console, Drive for Work also includes an Audit API that partners have used to build <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2014/07/advanced-security-for-google-drive-for.html" target="_blank">advanced insight and security extensions</a> like Data Loss Prevention (DLP). Other partners have built tools to help <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2014/08/how-to-move-your-files-to-google-drive.html" target="_blank">move business content into Drive</a> from any location, including old file servers, local hard drives or other cloud storage products.<br /><br /><b>Keeping your work safe and available</b><br /><br />To help keep your work safe, all files uploaded to Google Drive will be encrypted, not only from your device to Google and in transit between Google data centers, but also at rest on Google servers. Our reliability engineers monitor Google’s systems 24x7 in order to quickly identify and address any issues that might arise. Last year, Google Drive achieved 99.985% availability, which averages to less than 90 minutes of disruption per year (our SLA guarantees 99.9%). If there’s ever an issue, you can read up-to-date status information on the <a href="//google.com/appsstatus" target="_blank">Status Dashboard</a>, and if you ever need to speak to someone, <a href="https://support.google.com/a/table/3247295?hl=en" target="_blank">help is just a call away in over a dozen languages across 50 countries</a>.<br /><br />If you’d like to join the more than 190 million people actively using Drive, you can <a href="//www.google.com/drive/work" target="_blank">learn more</a> about Drive for Work online or <a href="//www.google.com/enterprise/apps/business/driveforwork/index.html#display=cs-dialog-form" target="_blank">contact us</a> for more information. If you’re already a Google Apps customer, you can upgrade with just a couple of clicks in the <a href="https://support.google.com/a/answer/6048423" target="_blank">Admin console</a>. <br /><br />Collaborating should be easy. Let technology do the hard work and help you get back to what’s most important — your business.</div> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='gplus-share social-wrapper' data-href='https://plus.google.com/share?url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2014/08/hotter-than-your-morning-coffee-google.html'> <img alt='Share on Google+' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/branding/google_plus/2x/ic_w_post_gplus_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Google Cloud Blog:Hotter than your morning coffee: Google Drive for Work&url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2014/08/hotter-than-your-morning-coffee-google.html&via=gsuite'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2014/08/hotter-than-your-morning-coffee-google.html'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> <div class='comment-container'> <i class='comment-img material-icons'>  </i> <span class='cmt_count_iframe_holder' data-count='1' data-onclick='' data-post-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2014/08/hotter-than-your-morning-coffee-google.html' data-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2014/08/hotter-than-your-morning-coffee-google.html' style='color: #4184F3;'></span> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='cmt_iframe_holder' data-href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2014/08/hotter-than-your-morning-coffee-google.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> <span class='labels-caption'> Labels: </span> <span class='labels'> <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/customer%20love' rel='tag'> customer love </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Google%20Apps' rel='tag'> Google Apps </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Google%20Drive%20for%20Work' rel='tag'> Google Drive for Work </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='6605378678435219939' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2014/08/chromebooks-give-back-time-to-chapters.html' itemprop='url' title='Chromebooks give back time to Chapters Health System’s patients and caregivers'> Chromebooks give back time to Chapters Health System’s patients and caregivers </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Thursday, August 21, 2014 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="byline-author">Posted by Chris Williams, Director of IT and Support Services, Chapters Health System</span> <br /><br /><i><b>Editor's note: </b>Today’s guest blogger is Chris Williams, Director of IT and Support Services for <a href="http://www.chaptershealth.org/" target="_blank">Chapters Health System</a>, which provides post-acute, palliative, and hospice care to patients in west-central Florida. See what other organizations that have gone Google <a href="//www.google.com/enterprise/apps/business/customers.html?utm_campaign=entblog&utm_source=Fred05292014&utm_medium=blog" target="_blank">have to say</a>.</i> <br /><br />At Chapters Health System, the role of IT is to provide software, connectivity and hardware to caregivers so they can spend less time wrestling with technology, and more time caring for patients. Our goal is to make the IT portion transparent to providing superior patient care. Most of our nurses and caregivers are mobile – they visit patients in hospitals, nursing homes, assisted living facilities or in their homes. <br /><br />To best support them, we virtualized our clinical and business software applications, and provide access to them via <a href="http://www.citrix.com/products/xenapp/overview.html?posit=glnav" target="_blank">Citrix XenApp via Receiver</a>. We also make sure our caregivers can stay connected through a Verizon 4G Mifi device. As for hardware, caregivers were using Windows notebooks but boot-up delays, long setup times for new machines, and the bulkiness of the devices were slowing down and frustrating our caregivers. In addition, the devices were hard to manage by the IT support staff. <br /><br />To find a solution, we took a democratic approach and asked caregivers to evaluate four devices: the <a href="https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/business/devices/chromebooks.html#hp-cb-14" target="_blank">HP Chromebook 14 for Busines</a>s, Apple iPad, a Windows thin client, and a traditional Windows notebook. Caregivers rated the HP Chromebook 14 higher than any other device in all areas, including form factor, battery life, ease of use, speed and performance of virtualized applications like Microsoft Outlook and clinical applications, as well as web applications. Ninety-two out of 139 caregivers who participated in our study voted the Chromebook as their favorite device for work.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdtcvtxcvrzhGDvi0oksW9-BwvC7zX7BVPbXAZfrGjEIvNU3tpkk08pyWRxt_VZ2YNYZCfUDL-IVP69pwQNkURbd3oeoY-29WA4qZAw8kcGLmioTnBoSzaoWtOeTm4cICLLS4_7-rwH2U/s1600/080514-Google-chromebooks-preferred_v8.jes.tk-01.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="568" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdtcvtxcvrzhGDvi0oksW9-BwvC7zX7BVPbXAZfrGjEIvNU3tpkk08pyWRxt_VZ2YNYZCfUDL-IVP69pwQNkURbd3oeoY-29WA4qZAw8kcGLmioTnBoSzaoWtOeTm4cICLLS4_7-rwH2U/s1600/080514-Google-chromebooks-preferred_v8.jes.tk-01.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>Luckily for us in IT, <a href="https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/business/devices/features.html" target="_blank">Chromebooks for Business</a> are also the easiest devices to deploy and manage, freeing up our own time for other projects. The biggest change we’ve heard about so far is improved speed. With a traditional Windows notebook, caregivers faced three to four minute boot times, plus multiple logins to Windows, their VPN, and then finally Citrix and the applications. With Chromebooks, boot time shrank dramatically and Chromebooks start up right at the Citrix login screen, so caregivers can access clinical data right away.<br /><br />Speed benefits extend to setup time as well. Some of our supplemental and weekend caregivers borrow from a pool of shared devices, and it took 40 minutes to set up each Windows notebook. With Chromebooks for Business, we can hop into the <a href="https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/business/devices/features-management-console.html" target="_blank">management console</a> and set up a new Chromebook in under five minutes. Even better, we use the management console to configure access for users so that if they need to borrow a machine we don’t have to get involved at all—they just pick up a Chromebook and log in. Since each caregiver can get his or her specific user experience on any Chromebook, it's easy for the devices to be shared.<br /><br />For additional security and simplicity, we use Chromebook for Business’s <a href="https://support.google.com/chromebook/answer/3134673?hl=en" target="_blank">Kiosk mode</a> to offer one single application, the Citrix login screen, but we’ll be extending it other web applications soon. We also use the management console to mandate the proxy server for Internet access—a feature that’s built-in to each Chromebook for Business.<br /><br />Chromebooks are giving back precious time to caregivers and their patients. In fact, we’re looking at purchasing many more Chromebooks in the near future so we can extend the benefits to even more Chapters Health employees.</div> </script> <noscript> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="byline-author">Posted by Chris Williams, Director of IT and Support Services, Chapters Health System</span> <br /><br /><i><b>Editor's note: </b>Today’s guest blogger is Chris Williams, Director of IT and Support Services for <a href="http://www.chaptershealth.org/" target="_blank">Chapters Health System</a>, which provides post-acute, palliative, and hospice care to patients in west-central Florida. See what other organizations that have gone Google <a href="//www.google.com/enterprise/apps/business/customers.html?utm_campaign=entblog&utm_source=Fred05292014&utm_medium=blog" target="_blank">have to say</a>.</i> <br /><br />At Chapters Health System, the role of IT is to provide software, connectivity and hardware to caregivers so they can spend less time wrestling with technology, and more time caring for patients. Our goal is to make the IT portion transparent to providing superior patient care. Most of our nurses and caregivers are mobile – they visit patients in hospitals, nursing homes, assisted living facilities or in their homes. <br /><br />To best support them, we virtualized our clinical and business software applications, and provide access to them via <a href="http://www.citrix.com/products/xenapp/overview.html?posit=glnav" target="_blank">Citrix XenApp via Receiver</a>. We also make sure our caregivers can stay connected through a Verizon 4G Mifi device. As for hardware, caregivers were using Windows notebooks but boot-up delays, long setup times for new machines, and the bulkiness of the devices were slowing down and frustrating our caregivers. In addition, the devices were hard to manage by the IT support staff. <br /><br />To find a solution, we took a democratic approach and asked caregivers to evaluate four devices: the <a href="https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/business/devices/chromebooks.html#hp-cb-14" target="_blank">HP Chromebook 14 for Busines</a>s, Apple iPad, a Windows thin client, and a traditional Windows notebook. Caregivers rated the HP Chromebook 14 higher than any other device in all areas, including form factor, battery life, ease of use, speed and performance of virtualized applications like Microsoft Outlook and clinical applications, as well as web applications. Ninety-two out of 139 caregivers who participated in our study voted the Chromebook as their favorite device for work.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdtcvtxcvrzhGDvi0oksW9-BwvC7zX7BVPbXAZfrGjEIvNU3tpkk08pyWRxt_VZ2YNYZCfUDL-IVP69pwQNkURbd3oeoY-29WA4qZAw8kcGLmioTnBoSzaoWtOeTm4cICLLS4_7-rwH2U/s1600/080514-Google-chromebooks-preferred_v8.jes.tk-01.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="568" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdtcvtxcvrzhGDvi0oksW9-BwvC7zX7BVPbXAZfrGjEIvNU3tpkk08pyWRxt_VZ2YNYZCfUDL-IVP69pwQNkURbd3oeoY-29WA4qZAw8kcGLmioTnBoSzaoWtOeTm4cICLLS4_7-rwH2U/s1600/080514-Google-chromebooks-preferred_v8.jes.tk-01.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>Luckily for us in IT, <a href="https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/business/devices/features.html" target="_blank">Chromebooks for Business</a> are also the easiest devices to deploy and manage, freeing up our own time for other projects. The biggest change we’ve heard about so far is improved speed. With a traditional Windows notebook, caregivers faced three to four minute boot times, plus multiple logins to Windows, their VPN, and then finally Citrix and the applications. With Chromebooks, boot time shrank dramatically and Chromebooks start up right at the Citrix login screen, so caregivers can access clinical data right away.<br /><br />Speed benefits extend to setup time as well. Some of our supplemental and weekend caregivers borrow from a pool of shared devices, and it took 40 minutes to set up each Windows notebook. With Chromebooks for Business, we can hop into the <a href="https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/business/devices/features-management-console.html" target="_blank">management console</a> and set up a new Chromebook in under five minutes. Even better, we use the management console to configure access for users so that if they need to borrow a machine we don’t have to get involved at all—they just pick up a Chromebook and log in. Since each caregiver can get his or her specific user experience on any Chromebook, it's easy for the devices to be shared.<br /><br />For additional security and simplicity, we use Chromebook for Business’s <a href="https://support.google.com/chromebook/answer/3134673?hl=en" target="_blank">Kiosk mode</a> to offer one single application, the Citrix login screen, but we’ll be extending it other web applications soon. We also use the management console to mandate the proxy server for Internet access—a feature that’s built-in to each Chromebook for Business.<br /><br />Chromebooks are giving back precious time to caregivers and their patients. In fact, we’re looking at purchasing many more Chromebooks in the near future so we can extend the benefits to even more Chapters Health employees.</div> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='gplus-share social-wrapper' data-href='https://plus.google.com/share?url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2014/08/chromebooks-give-back-time-to-chapters.html'> <img alt='Share on Google+' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/branding/google_plus/2x/ic_w_post_gplus_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Google Cloud Blog:Chromebooks give back time to Chapters Health System’s patients and caregivers&url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2014/08/chromebooks-give-back-time-to-chapters.html&via=gsuite'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2014/08/chromebooks-give-back-time-to-chapters.html'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> <div class='comment-container'> <i class='comment-img material-icons'>  </i> <span class='cmt_count_iframe_holder' data-count='0' data-onclick='' data-post-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2014/08/chromebooks-give-back-time-to-chapters.html' data-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2014/08/chromebooks-give-back-time-to-chapters.html' style='color: #4184F3;'></span> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='cmt_iframe_holder' data-href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2014/08/chromebooks-give-back-time-to-chapters.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> <span class='labels-caption'> Labels: </span> <span class='labels'> <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Chromebooks%20for%20Business' rel='tag'> Chromebooks for Business </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/customer%20love' rel='tag'> customer love </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Gone%20Google' rel='tag'> Gone Google </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='8124473841537692839' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2014/08/kfc-philippines-boosts-productivity-and.html' itemprop='url' title='KFC Philippines boosts productivity and collaboration with Google Drive and Apps'> KFC Philippines boosts productivity and collaboration with Google Drive and Apps </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Monday, August 18, 2014 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <span class="byline-author">Posted by Arvin Reyes, Chief Information Officer, KFC Philippines</span><br /> <br /> <i><b>Editor's note:</b> A few weeks ago, we <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2014/06/unlimit-your-business-with-google-drive.html" target="_blank">announced Google Drive for Work</a>, a new premium offering for businesses that includes unlimited storage, advanced audit reporting and new security controls. To celebrate the announcement and show how Drive helps businesses around the world, we’re sharing a few stories from a handful of customers using Drive (and the rest of the Google Apps suite) in innovative ways. Today’s guest blogger is Arvin Reyes, Chief Information Officer for <a href="http://www.kfc.com.ph/" target="_blank">KFC Philippines</a>, which operates 230 restaurants and six plants in that country. To learn more, read the full <a href="http://services.google.com/fh/files/misc/kfc-philippines-google-apps-english.pdf" target="_blank">case study</a>, or see what other organizations that use Google Drive <a href="//www.google.com/enterprise/apps/business/products/drive/" target="_blank">have to say</a>. </i> <br /> <br /> KFC has been on a steady growth path since being introduced to the Philippines in 1967. With restaurants, plants, and offices across the country, fast and easy communication and information sharing are vital to our success. This means tools like file storage, email, calendaring, and document creation need to be user-friendly for employees and relatively trouble-free for our IT team. But until recently, our mix of email and document management software caused more problems than it solved – with server over-capacity and slow response time, they just slowed down our business growth.<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHHgSyjRZyJaT39fmOeSPE_9tavoYkNwtfo79tf6TA_Zygebk1PaBpkNcihENWq1VDo_BZeJoPv4SFnlxSxPUjwyILpcdN-gj0Ac7lRET-3VVkFKFJ7tLRTCZoXee9AIydDTmCUkqvs_g/s1600/COLN_4C_125X1_KFC.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="343" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHHgSyjRZyJaT39fmOeSPE_9tavoYkNwtfo79tf6TA_Zygebk1PaBpkNcihENWq1VDo_BZeJoPv4SFnlxSxPUjwyILpcdN-gj0Ac7lRET-3VVkFKFJ7tLRTCZoXee9AIydDTmCUkqvs_g/s1600/COLN_4C_125X1_KFC.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> We decided that a single communications platform with everything from storage to email to document creation was the necessary solution, and <a href="//www.google.com/enterprise/apps/business/" target="_blank">Google Apps</a> was our answer. Not only did Apps meet all our requirements for cost-effectiveness, reliability and ease-of-use, but in <a href="//www.google.com/enterprise/apps/business/products/drive/" target="_blank">Drive</a> we saw a way to help our increasingly mobile workforce, which needs access to documents while out of the office.<br /> <br /> We’ve boosted our productivity on creative work by 15% by switching from snail mail to Google Drive. Before we made the move, we sent creative materials back and forth between our home office and our advertising agency through messengers and the postal service, racking up costs and taking time away from other tasks. Now, with Drive, we can share large files like high-resolution images and merchandise artwork through the cloud, so material gets to our agency (and back to us) faster and at a significantly lower cost. And with a single location to store everything we’re working on, we’ve dramatically improved our ability to collaborate on projects. <br /> <br /> <a href="https://www.google.com/work/apps/business/products/gmail/" target="_blank">Gmail</a> makes us better at communicating: Now that everyone has 30GB of mail storage available, they don’t need to waste time constantly cleaning out their inboxes to make room for new emails, or asking colleagues to re-send emails because they can’t find them. Our IT team loves Gmail because complaints about email services have decreased to zero since we began using it – in fact, IT’s support work for communication tools has gone down by 25% since we started using Google Apps. That gives our team more time to focus on activities that are more directly tied to the bottom line.<br /> <br /> Google Apps makes everyday problems like scheduling meetings disappear. Our old decision making process used to require the scheduling of several meetings and calls, with various reports and documents emailed back and forth among different teams. Now we schedule meetings on Google Calendar, where we can see everyone’s availability. For these meetings, we use a single shared document in Google Docs that serves as a running update on progress. This new workflow fundamentally changed the way we work with one another. What used to take days to decide is now possible within hours. <br /> <br /> Google Apps not only makes it easy for us to manage storage and bandwidth, it keeps our employees happy. After six months on the platform, 95% of people told us they’re satisfied with Google Apps, which means they can enjoy their work of serving and helping our customers.</div> </script> <noscript> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <span class="byline-author">Posted by Arvin Reyes, Chief Information Officer, KFC Philippines</span><br /> <br /> <i><b>Editor's note:</b> A few weeks ago, we <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2014/06/unlimit-your-business-with-google-drive.html" target="_blank">announced Google Drive for Work</a>, a new premium offering for businesses that includes unlimited storage, advanced audit reporting and new security controls. To celebrate the announcement and show how Drive helps businesses around the world, we’re sharing a few stories from a handful of customers using Drive (and the rest of the Google Apps suite) in innovative ways. Today’s guest blogger is Arvin Reyes, Chief Information Officer for <a href="http://www.kfc.com.ph/" target="_blank">KFC Philippines</a>, which operates 230 restaurants and six plants in that country. To learn more, read the full <a href="http://services.google.com/fh/files/misc/kfc-philippines-google-apps-english.pdf" target="_blank">case study</a>, or see what other organizations that use Google Drive <a href="//www.google.com/enterprise/apps/business/products/drive/" target="_blank">have to say</a>. </i> <br /> <br /> KFC has been on a steady growth path since being introduced to the Philippines in 1967. With restaurants, plants, and offices across the country, fast and easy communication and information sharing are vital to our success. This means tools like file storage, email, calendaring, and document creation need to be user-friendly for employees and relatively trouble-free for our IT team. But until recently, our mix of email and document management software caused more problems than it solved – with server over-capacity and slow response time, they just slowed down our business growth.<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHHgSyjRZyJaT39fmOeSPE_9tavoYkNwtfo79tf6TA_Zygebk1PaBpkNcihENWq1VDo_BZeJoPv4SFnlxSxPUjwyILpcdN-gj0Ac7lRET-3VVkFKFJ7tLRTCZoXee9AIydDTmCUkqvs_g/s1600/COLN_4C_125X1_KFC.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="343" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHHgSyjRZyJaT39fmOeSPE_9tavoYkNwtfo79tf6TA_Zygebk1PaBpkNcihENWq1VDo_BZeJoPv4SFnlxSxPUjwyILpcdN-gj0Ac7lRET-3VVkFKFJ7tLRTCZoXee9AIydDTmCUkqvs_g/s1600/COLN_4C_125X1_KFC.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> We decided that a single communications platform with everything from storage to email to document creation was the necessary solution, and <a href="//www.google.com/enterprise/apps/business/" target="_blank">Google Apps</a> was our answer. Not only did Apps meet all our requirements for cost-effectiveness, reliability and ease-of-use, but in <a href="//www.google.com/enterprise/apps/business/products/drive/" target="_blank">Drive</a> we saw a way to help our increasingly mobile workforce, which needs access to documents while out of the office.<br /> <br /> We’ve boosted our productivity on creative work by 15% by switching from snail mail to Google Drive. Before we made the move, we sent creative materials back and forth between our home office and our advertising agency through messengers and the postal service, racking up costs and taking time away from other tasks. Now, with Drive, we can share large files like high-resolution images and merchandise artwork through the cloud, so material gets to our agency (and back to us) faster and at a significantly lower cost. And with a single location to store everything we’re working on, we’ve dramatically improved our ability to collaborate on projects. <br /> <br /> <a href="https://www.google.com/work/apps/business/products/gmail/" target="_blank">Gmail</a> makes us better at communicating: Now that everyone has 30GB of mail storage available, they don’t need to waste time constantly cleaning out their inboxes to make room for new emails, or asking colleagues to re-send emails because they can’t find them. Our IT team loves Gmail because complaints about email services have decreased to zero since we began using it – in fact, IT’s support work for communication tools has gone down by 25% since we started using Google Apps. That gives our team more time to focus on activities that are more directly tied to the bottom line.<br /> <br /> Google Apps makes everyday problems like scheduling meetings disappear. Our old decision making process used to require the scheduling of several meetings and calls, with various reports and documents emailed back and forth among different teams. Now we schedule meetings on Google Calendar, where we can see everyone’s availability. For these meetings, we use a single shared document in Google Docs that serves as a running update on progress. This new workflow fundamentally changed the way we work with one another. What used to take days to decide is now possible within hours. <br /> <br /> Google Apps not only makes it easy for us to manage storage and bandwidth, it keeps our employees happy. After six months on the platform, 95% of people told us they’re satisfied with Google Apps, which means they can enjoy their work of serving and helping our customers.</div> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='gplus-share social-wrapper' data-href='https://plus.google.com/share?url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2014/08/kfc-philippines-boosts-productivity-and.html'> <img alt='Share on Google+' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/branding/google_plus/2x/ic_w_post_gplus_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Google Cloud Blog:KFC Philippines boosts productivity and collaboration with Google Drive and Apps&url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2014/08/kfc-philippines-boosts-productivity-and.html&via=gsuite'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2014/08/kfc-philippines-boosts-productivity-and.html'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> <div class='comment-container'> <i class='comment-img material-icons'>  </i> <span class='cmt_count_iframe_holder' data-count='0' data-onclick='' data-post-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2014/08/kfc-philippines-boosts-productivity-and.html' data-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2014/08/kfc-philippines-boosts-productivity-and.html' style='color: #4184F3;'></span> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='cmt_iframe_holder' data-href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2014/08/kfc-philippines-boosts-productivity-and.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> <span class='labels-caption'> Labels: </span> <span class='labels'> <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/customer%20love' rel='tag'> customer love </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Gone%20Google' rel='tag'> Gone Google </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Google%20Apps' rel='tag'> Google Apps </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Google%20Drive%20for%20Work' rel='tag'> Google Drive for Work </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='304964221366717457' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2014/08/how-to-move-your-files-to-google-drive.html' itemprop='url' title='How to move your files to Google Drive'> How to move your files to Google Drive </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Monday, August 18, 2014 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="byline-author">Posted by Chuck Coulson, Drive Technology Partnerships, Google</span><br /><br /><a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2014/06/unlimit-your-business-with-google-drive.html" target="_blank">Google Drive for Work</a> is a new premium offering for businesses that includes unlimited storage, advanced audit reporting and new security controls and features, such as encryption at rest.<br /><br />If you're getting ready to move your company to Drive, one of the first things on your mind is how to migrate all your existing files with as little hassle as possible. It's easy to migrate your files by uploading them directly to Drive or using the Drive Sync client. But, what if you have files stored elsewhere that you want to consolidate? Or what if you want to migrate multiple users at once? Many independent software vendors (ISVs) have built solutions to help organizations migrate their files from different File Sync and Share (FSS) solutions, local hard drives and other data sources. Here are some of the options available for you to use:<br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><b>Cloud Migrator</b>, by Cloud Technology Solutions, migrates user accounts and files to Google Drive and other Google Apps services. (<a href="http://www.cloudsolutions.co.uk/go-google.html" target="_blank">website</a>, <a href="http://www.cloudsolutions.co.uk/news-and-events/file-server-migration-to-google-drive-with-cloudmigrator/" target="_blank">blogpost</a>)</li><li><b>Cloudsfer</b>, by Tzunami, transfers files from Box, Dropbox and Microsoft OneDrive to Google Drive. (<a href="http://www.cloudsfer.com/supported-systems/google-drive/" target="_blank">website</a>)</li><li><b>Migrator for Google Apps</b>, by Backupify, migrates and consolidates personal Google Drive or other Google Apps for Business accounts into a single domain. (<a href="https://www.backupify.com/free-tools/migrator-google-apps" target="_blank">website</a>, <a href="http://blog.backupify.com/2014/08/18/google-apps-data-migration" target="_blank">blogpost</a>)</li><li><b>Mover</b> migrates data from 23 cloud services providers, web services, and databases into Google Drive. (<a href="https://mover.io/connectors/google-drive/" target="_blank">website</a>, <a href="https://blog.mover.io/2014/08/18/migrating-to-google-drive/" target="_blank">blogpost</a>)</li><li><b>Nava Certus</b>, by LinkGard, provides a migration and synchronization solution for on-premise and cloud-based storage platforms, including Dropbox, Microsoft OneDrive, Amazon S3, as well as local file systems. (<a href="http://www.linkgard.com/products/nava-certus.html" target="_blank">website</a>, <a href="http://www.linkgard.com/blog/google-apps/google-drive-migration-isv-solution.html" target="_blank">blogpost</a>)</li><li><b>SkySync,</b> by Portal Architects, integrates existing on-site storage systems as well as other cloud storage providers to Google Drive. (<a href="http://skysync.com/default.aspx" target="_blank">website</a>, <a href="http://www.skysync.com/blog/googledrive/" target="_blank">blogpost</a>)</li></ul>These are just a few companies that offer migration solutions. Please visit the <a href="//www.google.com/enterprise/marketplace/" target="_blank">Google Apps Marketplace</a> for a complete listing of tools and offerings that add value to the Google Apps platform.<br /><br /><br /><br /></div> </script> <noscript> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="byline-author">Posted by Chuck Coulson, Drive Technology Partnerships, Google</span><br /><br /><a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2014/06/unlimit-your-business-with-google-drive.html" target="_blank">Google Drive for Work</a> is a new premium offering for businesses that includes unlimited storage, advanced audit reporting and new security controls and features, such as encryption at rest.<br /><br />If you're getting ready to move your company to Drive, one of the first things on your mind is how to migrate all your existing files with as little hassle as possible. It's easy to migrate your files by uploading them directly to Drive or using the Drive Sync client. But, what if you have files stored elsewhere that you want to consolidate? Or what if you want to migrate multiple users at once? Many independent software vendors (ISVs) have built solutions to help organizations migrate their files from different File Sync and Share (FSS) solutions, local hard drives and other data sources. Here are some of the options available for you to use:<br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><b>Cloud Migrator</b>, by Cloud Technology Solutions, migrates user accounts and files to Google Drive and other Google Apps services. (<a href="http://www.cloudsolutions.co.uk/go-google.html" target="_blank">website</a>, <a href="http://www.cloudsolutions.co.uk/news-and-events/file-server-migration-to-google-drive-with-cloudmigrator/" target="_blank">blogpost</a>)</li><li><b>Cloudsfer</b>, by Tzunami, transfers files from Box, Dropbox and Microsoft OneDrive to Google Drive. (<a href="http://www.cloudsfer.com/supported-systems/google-drive/" target="_blank">website</a>)</li><li><b>Migrator for Google Apps</b>, by Backupify, migrates and consolidates personal Google Drive or other Google Apps for Business accounts into a single domain. (<a href="https://www.backupify.com/free-tools/migrator-google-apps" target="_blank">website</a>, <a href="http://blog.backupify.com/2014/08/18/google-apps-data-migration" target="_blank">blogpost</a>)</li><li><b>Mover</b> migrates data from 23 cloud services providers, web services, and databases into Google Drive. (<a href="https://mover.io/connectors/google-drive/" target="_blank">website</a>, <a href="https://blog.mover.io/2014/08/18/migrating-to-google-drive/" target="_blank">blogpost</a>)</li><li><b>Nava Certus</b>, by LinkGard, provides a migration and synchronization solution for on-premise and cloud-based storage platforms, including Dropbox, Microsoft OneDrive, Amazon S3, as well as local file systems. (<a href="http://www.linkgard.com/products/nava-certus.html" target="_blank">website</a>, <a href="http://www.linkgard.com/blog/google-apps/google-drive-migration-isv-solution.html" target="_blank">blogpost</a>)</li><li><b>SkySync,</b> by Portal Architects, integrates existing on-site storage systems as well as other cloud storage providers to Google Drive. (<a href="http://skysync.com/default.aspx" target="_blank">website</a>, <a href="http://www.skysync.com/blog/googledrive/" target="_blank">blogpost</a>)</li></ul>These are just a few companies that offer migration solutions. Please visit the <a href="//www.google.com/enterprise/marketplace/" target="_blank">Google Apps Marketplace</a> for a complete listing of tools and offerings that add value to the Google Apps platform.<br /><br /><br /><br /></div> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='gplus-share social-wrapper' data-href='https://plus.google.com/share?url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2014/08/how-to-move-your-files-to-google-drive.html'> <img alt='Share on Google+' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/branding/google_plus/2x/ic_w_post_gplus_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Google Cloud Blog:How to move your files to Google Drive&url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2014/08/how-to-move-your-files-to-google-drive.html&via=gsuite'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2014/08/how-to-move-your-files-to-google-drive.html'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> <div class='comment-container'> <i class='comment-img material-icons'>  </i> <span class='cmt_count_iframe_holder' data-count='18' data-onclick='' data-post-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2014/08/how-to-move-your-files-to-google-drive.html' data-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2014/08/how-to-move-your-files-to-google-drive.html' style='color: #4184F3;'></span> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='cmt_iframe_holder' data-href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2014/08/how-to-move-your-files-to-google-drive.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> <span class='labels-caption'> Labels: </span> <span class='labels'> <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Google%20Drive%20for%20Work' rel='tag'> Google Drive for Work </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='6148126904175581014' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2014/08/protecting-gmail-in-global-world.html' itemprop='url' title='Protecting Gmail in a global world'> Protecting Gmail in a global world </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Tuesday, August 12, 2014 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <span class="byline-author">Posted by Mark Risher, Spam & Abuse Team</span> <br /> <br /> <i><b>Editor's note:</b> Businesses rely on email to communicate, and on Google to ensure that their email communication is secure. Today, we’re adding to our <a href="https://support.google.com/a/topic/2683828?hl=en&ref_topic=14867" target="_blank">spam filtering support in Gmail</a> to handle duplicitous “Unicode Homoglyphs.” This release strengthens our ongoing commitment to keeping our customers safe and protected from scams, phishing attacks and spammers.</i> <br /> <br /> Last week <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2014/08/a-first-step-toward-more-global-email.html" target="_blank">we announced support</a> for non-Latin characters in Gmail — think δοκιμή.com and 测试@example.net and みんな — as a first step towards more global email. We’re really excited about these new capabilities. We also want to ensure they aren't abused by spammers or scammers trying to send misleading or harmful messages.<br /> <br /> Scammers can exploit the fact that <span style="color: red;">ဝ</span>, <span style="color: red;">૦</span>, and <span style="color: red;">ο</span> look nearly identical to the letter <span style="color: red;">o</span>, and by mixing and matching them, they can hoodwink unsuspecting victims. Can you imagine the risk of clicking “Sh<span style="color: red;">ဝ</span>ppingSite” vs. “ShoppingSite” or “MyBank” vs. “MyB<span style="color: red;">ɑ</span>nk”?<br /> <br /> To stay one step ahead of spammers, the Unicode community has identified suspicious combinations of letters that could be misleading, and <a href="https://www.google.com/work/apps/business/products/gmail/" target="_blank">Gmail</a> will now begin rejecting email with such combinations. We're using an open standard—the <a href="http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr39/#Restriction_Level_Detection" target="_blank">Unicode Consortium's “Highly Restricted” designation</a>—which we believe strikes a healthy balance between legitimate uses of these new domains and those likely to be abused. <br /> <br /> We’re rolling out the <a href="https://support.google.com/mail/answer/81126#format" target="_blank">changes</a> today, and hope that others across the industry will follow suit. Together, we can help ensure that international domains continue to flourish, allowing both users and businesses to have a tête-à-tête in the language of their choosing.<br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoQRfFu_UByKrp5_4iwGS1TtmCQO3RzeD5aTyCySdxl8lRwAPikedHxdi4ROixA-RAZO2YAE58JThylFU5zRB8C2yaQMpw53-zKADjAg9s4b1u00sGPMoSYwTwq8dEtu2V93N21aUQsI0/s1600/confusable+characters.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="376" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoQRfFu_UByKrp5_4iwGS1TtmCQO3RzeD5aTyCySdxl8lRwAPikedHxdi4ROixA-RAZO2YAE58JThylFU5zRB8C2yaQMpw53-zKADjAg9s4b1u00sGPMoSYwTwq8dEtu2V93N21aUQsI0/s1600/confusable+characters.png" width="640" /></a></div> <br /></div> </script> <noscript> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <span class="byline-author">Posted by Mark Risher, Spam & Abuse Team</span> <br /> <br /> <i><b>Editor's note:</b> Businesses rely on email to communicate, and on Google to ensure that their email communication is secure. Today, we’re adding to our <a href="https://support.google.com/a/topic/2683828?hl=en&ref_topic=14867" target="_blank">spam filtering support in Gmail</a> to handle duplicitous “Unicode Homoglyphs.” This release strengthens our ongoing commitment to keeping our customers safe and protected from scams, phishing attacks and spammers.</i> <br /> <br /> Last week <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2014/08/a-first-step-toward-more-global-email.html" target="_blank">we announced support</a> for non-Latin characters in Gmail — think δοκιμή.com and 测试@example.net and みんな — as a first step towards more global email. We’re really excited about these new capabilities. We also want to ensure they aren't abused by spammers or scammers trying to send misleading or harmful messages.<br /> <br /> Scammers can exploit the fact that <span style="color: red;">ဝ</span>, <span style="color: red;">૦</span>, and <span style="color: red;">ο</span> look nearly identical to the letter <span style="color: red;">o</span>, and by mixing and matching them, they can hoodwink unsuspecting victims. Can you imagine the risk of clicking “Sh<span style="color: red;">ဝ</span>ppingSite” vs. “ShoppingSite” or “MyBank” vs. “MyB<span style="color: red;">ɑ</span>nk”?<br /> <br /> To stay one step ahead of spammers, the Unicode community has identified suspicious combinations of letters that could be misleading, and <a href="https://www.google.com/work/apps/business/products/gmail/" target="_blank">Gmail</a> will now begin rejecting email with such combinations. We're using an open standard—the <a href="http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr39/#Restriction_Level_Detection" target="_blank">Unicode Consortium's “Highly Restricted” designation</a>—which we believe strikes a healthy balance between legitimate uses of these new domains and those likely to be abused. <br /> <br /> We’re rolling out the <a href="https://support.google.com/mail/answer/81126#format" target="_blank">changes</a> today, and hope that others across the industry will follow suit. Together, we can help ensure that international domains continue to flourish, allowing both users and businesses to have a tête-à-tête in the language of their choosing.<br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoQRfFu_UByKrp5_4iwGS1TtmCQO3RzeD5aTyCySdxl8lRwAPikedHxdi4ROixA-RAZO2YAE58JThylFU5zRB8C2yaQMpw53-zKADjAg9s4b1u00sGPMoSYwTwq8dEtu2V93N21aUQsI0/s1600/confusable+characters.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="376" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoQRfFu_UByKrp5_4iwGS1TtmCQO3RzeD5aTyCySdxl8lRwAPikedHxdi4ROixA-RAZO2YAE58JThylFU5zRB8C2yaQMpw53-zKADjAg9s4b1u00sGPMoSYwTwq8dEtu2V93N21aUQsI0/s1600/confusable+characters.png" width="640" /></a></div> <br /></div> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='gplus-share social-wrapper' data-href='https://plus.google.com/share?url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2014/08/protecting-gmail-in-global-world.html'> <img alt='Share on Google+' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/branding/google_plus/2x/ic_w_post_gplus_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Google Cloud Blog:Protecting Gmail in a global world&url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2014/08/protecting-gmail-in-global-world.html&via=gsuite'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2014/08/protecting-gmail-in-global-world.html'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> <div class='comment-container'> <i class='comment-img material-icons'>  </i> <span class='cmt_count_iframe_holder' data-count='3' data-onclick='' data-post-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2014/08/protecting-gmail-in-global-world.html' data-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2014/08/protecting-gmail-in-global-world.html' style='color: #4184F3;'></span> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='cmt_iframe_holder' data-href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2014/08/protecting-gmail-in-global-world.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> <span class='labels-caption'> Labels: </span> <span class='labels'> <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/gmail' rel='tag'> gmail </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='7211050243129542316' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2014/08/more-teaching-less-tech-ing-google.html' itemprop='url' title='More teaching, Less tech-ing: Google Classroom Launches Today'> More teaching, Less tech-ing: Google Classroom Launches Today </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Tuesday, August 12, 2014 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="byline-author">Posted by Zach Yeskel, Classroom Product Manager (and former High School Math Teacher)</span> <br /><br />When we <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2014/05/previewing-new-classroom.html" target="_blank">introduced</a> Classroom back in May, we asked educators to give it a try. The response was exciting — more than 100,000 educators from more than 45 countries signed up for a preview. Today, we’re starting to open Classroom to all Google Apps for Education users, helping teachers spend more time teaching and less time shuffling papers. <br /><br />One of the first schools to use Classroom was Fontbonne Hall Academy in Brooklyn, New York. Sister Rosemarie DeLoro, who has been teaching for more than 60 years, had never used computers with her students before Classroom was introduced at her school. Classroom made it easy for her to assign digital worksheets to students in her Italian class and provide direct feedback to help them learn. In fact, after just a few weeks, Sister Rosemarie was showing the other teachers how to use it. “You can’t stay in teaching and keep going to the old ways,” she said.<br /><br />Teachers and students have been instrumental in helping us build Classroom. For example, we heard during the preview that educators don’t want to wait until an assignment is turned in to collaborate with students. Now, with Classroom, teachers can view and comment on students’ work to help them along the way. We’ve also heard that educators want a simple place to post information and materials about their classes, so we added an “About” page for each course, as well.<br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisZo3dra2bcy0ZodJ-6SLy39aBAqzkKeui4h8z4DbmuVADzsO30gGUvF2U65MsP98MdM3_E8BYPMLi1Zmp2DhK0SFqCaNTdlV2Z2JfncLbMQKF7-yWVMHNwfKvbL00ipo8ukP6VgGaWhY/s1600/assignment+creation+narrow.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisZo3dra2bcy0ZodJ-6SLy39aBAqzkKeui4h8z4DbmuVADzsO30gGUvF2U65MsP98MdM3_E8BYPMLi1Zmp2DhK0SFqCaNTdlV2Z2JfncLbMQKF7-yWVMHNwfKvbL00ipo8ukP6VgGaWhY/s1600/assignment+creation+narrow.png" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">When teachers create assignments, they can attach files from Google Drive — including Google Docs, Microsoft Word, Keynote, Google Slides, Excel, Google Sheets, and many others — then choose to automatically make a copy for each student. </td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghCmpHOkU2VcEMtD7s-nUBnE1ee-zqd0M6khuuwHC8pwdJ89RftvQv8CHS2Kn8W3m8-uX4B_UwN_uvNcKZOXJsCFtpDjqNLojKiDYf5Vw1x-tdCz-DII53OppRqb597rzRR_Pvznqy-2Q/s1600/Grading+page+narrow.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghCmpHOkU2VcEMtD7s-nUBnE1ee-zqd0M6khuuwHC8pwdJ89RftvQv8CHS2Kn8W3m8-uX4B_UwN_uvNcKZOXJsCFtpDjqNLojKiDYf5Vw1x-tdCz-DII53OppRqb597rzRR_Pvznqy-2Q/s1600/Grading+page+narrow.png" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Teachers can review assignments from Classroom and provide feedback and grades to students all in one place. </td></tr></tbody></table>Classroom is available in 42 languages (including right-to-left ones, such as Hebrew, Arabic and Persian). It also works well on mobile devices and most popular screen readers. We’ll be rolling out to more users every day, so if you go to <a href="http://classroom.google.com/">classroom.google.com</a> with your Apps for Education account and don’t have access yet, please check back soon.<br /><br />Hopefully Classroom will help you spend a little less time at the photocopier and a little more time doing what you love—teaching.</div> </script> <noscript> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="byline-author">Posted by Zach Yeskel, Classroom Product Manager (and former High School Math Teacher)</span> <br /><br />When we <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2014/05/previewing-new-classroom.html" target="_blank">introduced</a> Classroom back in May, we asked educators to give it a try. The response was exciting — more than 100,000 educators from more than 45 countries signed up for a preview. Today, we’re starting to open Classroom to all Google Apps for Education users, helping teachers spend more time teaching and less time shuffling papers. <br /><br />One of the first schools to use Classroom was Fontbonne Hall Academy in Brooklyn, New York. Sister Rosemarie DeLoro, who has been teaching for more than 60 years, had never used computers with her students before Classroom was introduced at her school. Classroom made it easy for her to assign digital worksheets to students in her Italian class and provide direct feedback to help them learn. In fact, after just a few weeks, Sister Rosemarie was showing the other teachers how to use it. “You can’t stay in teaching and keep going to the old ways,” she said.<br /><br />Teachers and students have been instrumental in helping us build Classroom. For example, we heard during the preview that educators don’t want to wait until an assignment is turned in to collaborate with students. Now, with Classroom, teachers can view and comment on students’ work to help them along the way. We’ve also heard that educators want a simple place to post information and materials about their classes, so we added an “About” page for each course, as well.<br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisZo3dra2bcy0ZodJ-6SLy39aBAqzkKeui4h8z4DbmuVADzsO30gGUvF2U65MsP98MdM3_E8BYPMLi1Zmp2DhK0SFqCaNTdlV2Z2JfncLbMQKF7-yWVMHNwfKvbL00ipo8ukP6VgGaWhY/s1600/assignment+creation+narrow.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisZo3dra2bcy0ZodJ-6SLy39aBAqzkKeui4h8z4DbmuVADzsO30gGUvF2U65MsP98MdM3_E8BYPMLi1Zmp2DhK0SFqCaNTdlV2Z2JfncLbMQKF7-yWVMHNwfKvbL00ipo8ukP6VgGaWhY/s1600/assignment+creation+narrow.png" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">When teachers create assignments, they can attach files from Google Drive — including Google Docs, Microsoft Word, Keynote, Google Slides, Excel, Google Sheets, and many others — then choose to automatically make a copy for each student. </td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghCmpHOkU2VcEMtD7s-nUBnE1ee-zqd0M6khuuwHC8pwdJ89RftvQv8CHS2Kn8W3m8-uX4B_UwN_uvNcKZOXJsCFtpDjqNLojKiDYf5Vw1x-tdCz-DII53OppRqb597rzRR_Pvznqy-2Q/s1600/Grading+page+narrow.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghCmpHOkU2VcEMtD7s-nUBnE1ee-zqd0M6khuuwHC8pwdJ89RftvQv8CHS2Kn8W3m8-uX4B_UwN_uvNcKZOXJsCFtpDjqNLojKiDYf5Vw1x-tdCz-DII53OppRqb597rzRR_Pvznqy-2Q/s1600/Grading+page+narrow.png" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Teachers can review assignments from Classroom and provide feedback and grades to students all in one place. </td></tr></tbody></table>Classroom is available in 42 languages (including right-to-left ones, such as Hebrew, Arabic and Persian). It also works well on mobile devices and most popular screen readers. We’ll be rolling out to more users every day, so if you go to <a href="http://classroom.google.com/">classroom.google.com</a> with your Apps for Education account and don’t have access yet, please check back soon.<br /><br />Hopefully Classroom will help you spend a little less time at the photocopier and a little more time doing what you love—teaching.</div> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='gplus-share social-wrapper' data-href='https://plus.google.com/share?url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2014/08/more-teaching-less-tech-ing-google.html'> <img alt='Share on Google+' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/branding/google_plus/2x/ic_w_post_gplus_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Google Cloud Blog:More teaching, Less tech-ing: Google Classroom Launches Today&url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2014/08/more-teaching-less-tech-ing-google.html&via=gsuite'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2014/08/more-teaching-less-tech-ing-google.html'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> <div class='comment-container'> <i class='comment-img material-icons'>  </i> <span class='cmt_count_iframe_holder' data-count='156' data-onclick='' data-post-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2014/08/more-teaching-less-tech-ing-google.html' data-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2014/08/more-teaching-less-tech-ing-google.html' style='color: #4184F3;'></span> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='cmt_iframe_holder' data-href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2014/08/more-teaching-less-tech-ing-google.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> <span class='labels-caption'> Labels: </span> <span class='labels'> <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Classroom' rel='tag'> Classroom </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Google%20for%20Education' rel='tag'> Google for Education </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='7298227313490951632' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2014/08/thrillist-bridges-lifestyle-brands-with.html' itemprop='url' title='Thrillist bridges lifestyle brands with Google Apps'> Thrillist bridges lifestyle brands with Google Apps </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Monday, August 11, 2014 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="byline-author">Posted by Ben Darr, Development Manager, Thrillist Media Group</span><br /><br /><i><b>Editor's note:</b> Whether it’s taking a meeting over Hangouts from the airport before escaping to a much-deserved vacation or sending work emails from an air-conditioned neighborhood cafe, <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2014/07/celebrating-spirit-of-summer.html" target="_blank">technology should help you get your work done faster</a> so you can enjoy the summer months. To celebrate the season of sun, we’re sharing stories from customers who know all about the importance of technology when fostering a culture of mobility and flexibility. Today, we hear from Ben Darr, Product Development Manager at <a href="http://www.thrillistmediagroup.com/" target="_blank">Thrillist Media Group</a>, a digital media company based in New York that is responsible for men’s lifestyle brand Thrillist.com and popular online retailer JackThreads.</i> <br /><br />In the last four years, Thrillist Media Group (TMG) has gone from a small newsletter in a one-room office to a multi-propertied media group with more than 300 employees. We now operate within the realms of content, commerce, private label clothing, events, sales and proprietary tech platforms. We’ve worked hard to tie these unique industries together — a feat that requires high levels of communication between our offices in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Columbus, Ohio. Thrillist’s collaboration between employees would not be possible without Google Apps.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlV_igc0hfvocTfj5Lkt9otgRMDMkgxDreD0ItvxjoSrT747smYhyphenhyphenNr9V5VpoL08lFrvB1t8ST_GBdHl8AGaQetBxLuh3i4i_ExaKcsFXm1fGSUxYEIze1QahN41U9rl7DEk_3iRVy7rU/s1600/ben_darr.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlV_igc0hfvocTfj5Lkt9otgRMDMkgxDreD0ItvxjoSrT747smYhyphenhyphenNr9V5VpoL08lFrvB1t8ST_GBdHl8AGaQetBxLuh3i4i_ExaKcsFXm1fGSUxYEIze1QahN41U9rl7DEk_3iRVy7rU/s1600/ben_darr.jpg" width="213" /></a></div>Thrillist’s employees are completely plugged into the Google ecosystem and the tools we need are mere clicks away and always available. What really sets the Google platform apart is the seamless integration and intuitive user experience. If you’ve ever used Gchat in the last few years, you know how to use Hangouts. If you can write an email, it’s a tiny skip to using a Google Doc. Being able to quickly switch between Apps without having to log in or learn how to use a new tool caters to our fast-pace environment and centralizes nearly all of our day-to-day files and communication. <br /><br />Whether someone has a quick question or needs to express a more complex idea via Hangout or email, Google Apps is there to give our team what we need to finalize the designs and copy with the client. After approvals, we upload all files to Drive, which makes it easy for multiple departments across the company to refer to them throughout the campaign. On the product side, our quality assurance team can then cross reference final design specs to custom-built sales and make note of any issues or differences in Google Sheets. When the campaign is live, I review how the entire process was executed and use our product page on the Thrillist Google Site to recount best practices and we took away from the campaign.<br /><br />Take, for example, this real-life scenario from a recent campaign: A client halfway across the country sponsored a custom sale on Jackthreads driving content on Thrillist and Supercompressor, two of our e-commerce properties. To start the process, our sales and design team held a kick-off meeting with the client via Google Hangouts to understand their vision and goals for the campaign. Throughout the meeting, everyone recorded ideas, guidelines and project timelines on one Google Doc. When the meeting ended, I shared the Doc with all the different TMG departments involved — other product members, photographers at our warehouse in Brooklyn, tech leads overseeing the build, sales reps communicating with the client and that lucky colleague on vacation at the beach.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOtDxLEL1xjJnC6Tw5yr2Z3Sg9HXy5rBzSx_JtkXcHPRdIcHQCH9KtKes2iclzzccoRwc9QCRTOz_NJDGc_PjELHdw3SfltzysR1gzF7dAR9qPvbAt4OrM8G3uFPFJWQFCcN73kbFGsRY/s1600/TMG+Team+Photo+(2).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOtDxLEL1xjJnC6Tw5yr2Z3Sg9HXy5rBzSx_JtkXcHPRdIcHQCH9KtKes2iclzzccoRwc9QCRTOz_NJDGc_PjELHdw3SfltzysR1gzF7dAR9qPvbAt4OrM8G3uFPFJWQFCcN73kbFGsRY/s1600/TMG+Team+Photo+(2).jpg" style="cursor: move;" width="640" /></a>As a relatively small company, our projects are largely collaborative and everyone is juggling a large workload — and the specific example above is just a single piece in the complex TMG puzzle. Google Apps is critical to the work we do everyday; while other companies offer these services separately, none offer all of them together in one seamless, easy-to-use system.</div> </script> <noscript> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="byline-author">Posted by Ben Darr, Development Manager, Thrillist Media Group</span><br /><br /><i><b>Editor's note:</b> Whether it’s taking a meeting over Hangouts from the airport before escaping to a much-deserved vacation or sending work emails from an air-conditioned neighborhood cafe, <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2014/07/celebrating-spirit-of-summer.html" target="_blank">technology should help you get your work done faster</a> so you can enjoy the summer months. To celebrate the season of sun, we’re sharing stories from customers who know all about the importance of technology when fostering a culture of mobility and flexibility. Today, we hear from Ben Darr, Product Development Manager at <a href="http://www.thrillistmediagroup.com/" target="_blank">Thrillist Media Group</a>, a digital media company based in New York that is responsible for men’s lifestyle brand Thrillist.com and popular online retailer JackThreads.</i> <br /><br />In the last four years, Thrillist Media Group (TMG) has gone from a small newsletter in a one-room office to a multi-propertied media group with more than 300 employees. We now operate within the realms of content, commerce, private label clothing, events, sales and proprietary tech platforms. We’ve worked hard to tie these unique industries together — a feat that requires high levels of communication between our offices in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Columbus, Ohio. Thrillist’s collaboration between employees would not be possible without Google Apps.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlV_igc0hfvocTfj5Lkt9otgRMDMkgxDreD0ItvxjoSrT747smYhyphenhyphenNr9V5VpoL08lFrvB1t8ST_GBdHl8AGaQetBxLuh3i4i_ExaKcsFXm1fGSUxYEIze1QahN41U9rl7DEk_3iRVy7rU/s1600/ben_darr.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlV_igc0hfvocTfj5Lkt9otgRMDMkgxDreD0ItvxjoSrT747smYhyphenhyphenNr9V5VpoL08lFrvB1t8ST_GBdHl8AGaQetBxLuh3i4i_ExaKcsFXm1fGSUxYEIze1QahN41U9rl7DEk_3iRVy7rU/s1600/ben_darr.jpg" width="213" /></a></div>Thrillist’s employees are completely plugged into the Google ecosystem and the tools we need are mere clicks away and always available. What really sets the Google platform apart is the seamless integration and intuitive user experience. If you’ve ever used Gchat in the last few years, you know how to use Hangouts. If you can write an email, it’s a tiny skip to using a Google Doc. Being able to quickly switch between Apps without having to log in or learn how to use a new tool caters to our fast-pace environment and centralizes nearly all of our day-to-day files and communication. <br /><br />Whether someone has a quick question or needs to express a more complex idea via Hangout or email, Google Apps is there to give our team what we need to finalize the designs and copy with the client. After approvals, we upload all files to Drive, which makes it easy for multiple departments across the company to refer to them throughout the campaign. On the product side, our quality assurance team can then cross reference final design specs to custom-built sales and make note of any issues or differences in Google Sheets. When the campaign is live, I review how the entire process was executed and use our product page on the Thrillist Google Site to recount best practices and we took away from the campaign.<br /><br />Take, for example, this real-life scenario from a recent campaign: A client halfway across the country sponsored a custom sale on Jackthreads driving content on Thrillist and Supercompressor, two of our e-commerce properties. To start the process, our sales and design team held a kick-off meeting with the client via Google Hangouts to understand their vision and goals for the campaign. Throughout the meeting, everyone recorded ideas, guidelines and project timelines on one Google Doc. When the meeting ended, I shared the Doc with all the different TMG departments involved — other product members, photographers at our warehouse in Brooklyn, tech leads overseeing the build, sales reps communicating with the client and that lucky colleague on vacation at the beach.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOtDxLEL1xjJnC6Tw5yr2Z3Sg9HXy5rBzSx_JtkXcHPRdIcHQCH9KtKes2iclzzccoRwc9QCRTOz_NJDGc_PjELHdw3SfltzysR1gzF7dAR9qPvbAt4OrM8G3uFPFJWQFCcN73kbFGsRY/s1600/TMG+Team+Photo+(2).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOtDxLEL1xjJnC6Tw5yr2Z3Sg9HXy5rBzSx_JtkXcHPRdIcHQCH9KtKes2iclzzccoRwc9QCRTOz_NJDGc_PjELHdw3SfltzysR1gzF7dAR9qPvbAt4OrM8G3uFPFJWQFCcN73kbFGsRY/s1600/TMG+Team+Photo+(2).jpg" style="cursor: move;" width="640" /></a>As a relatively small company, our projects are largely collaborative and everyone is juggling a large workload — and the specific example above is just a single piece in the complex TMG puzzle. Google Apps is critical to the work we do everyday; while other companies offer these services separately, none offer all of them together in one seamless, easy-to-use system.</div> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='gplus-share social-wrapper' data-href='https://plus.google.com/share?url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2014/08/thrillist-bridges-lifestyle-brands-with.html'> <img alt='Share on Google+' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/branding/google_plus/2x/ic_w_post_gplus_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Google Cloud Blog:Thrillist bridges lifestyle brands with Google Apps&url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2014/08/thrillist-bridges-lifestyle-brands-with.html&via=gsuite'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2014/08/thrillist-bridges-lifestyle-brands-with.html'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> <div class='comment-container'> <i class='comment-img material-icons'>  </i> <span class='cmt_count_iframe_holder' data-count='2' data-onclick='' data-post-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2014/08/thrillist-bridges-lifestyle-brands-with.html' data-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2014/08/thrillist-bridges-lifestyle-brands-with.html' style='color: #4184F3;'></span> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='cmt_iframe_holder' data-href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2014/08/thrillist-bridges-lifestyle-brands-with.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> <span class='labels-caption'> Labels: </span> <span class='labels'> <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/customer%20love' rel='tag'> customer love </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Gone%20Google' rel='tag'> Gone Google </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='1584085744157749493' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2014/08/karma-offers-hotspot-data-power-to.html' itemprop='url' title='Karma offers hotspot data power to the people '> Karma offers hotspot data power to the people </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Friday, August 8, 2014 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="byline-author">Posted by Amanda Bensol, Vice President of Marketing and Sales, Karma</span> <br /><br /><i><b>Editor's note:</b> Whether it’s taking a meeting over Hangouts from the airport before escaping to a much-deserved vacation or sending work e-mails from an air-conditioned neighborhood cafe, <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2014/07/celebrating-spirit-of-summer.html" target="_blank">technology should help you get your work done faster</a> so you can enjoy the summer months. To celebrate the season of sun, we’re sharing stories from customers who know all about the importance of technology when fostering a culture of mobility and flexibility. Today’s guest blogger is Amanda Bensol, Vice President of Marketing and Sales at <a href="https://yourkarma.com/" target="_blank">Karma</a>, a New York-based startup building a sleek, portable pay-what-you-use WiFi hotspot. </i> <br /><br />Karma empowers people to work wherever they want with an elegantly designed personal portable hotspot. Our team spent years paying exorbitant hotspot data costs while traveling around the world and knew there had to be a better and cheaper way to get online at the many airports, hotels, cafes and trains that didn’t have public Internet access. We set out to solve the problem ourselves with an affordable mobile WiFi hotspot that allows people to work wherever, whenever they want. Karma isn’t just a hotspot — it’s a movement that lets people take back the power to use their data and technology how they want.<br /><br />In order to introduce new ways of working, we hold monthly Karma Outdoors gatherings and invite people to come join us in working outside this summer. Like most people, we enjoy being able to work on our own terms. That’s why <a href="//www.google.com/enterprise/apps/business/" target="_blank">Google Apps</a> has been part of our journey from the start. It’s not a stretch to say that <a href="//www.google.com/enterprise/apps/business/products/hangouts/" target="_blank">Google Hangouts</a> practically built Karma. After the company was started, visa issues caused the founders to return to Amsterdam, leaving me essentially in charge of U.S. operations. Hangouts was a lifeline that allowed us to build and grow the company, even though we were separated by an ocean. <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQkThDoscvhqVznk7HYG_7iWMAWcKFoFXJRI-64-9gX1pwLIqUcAuOGj7UgxnmZ0XDrdIZj4LoTKDa1DkczQ_gXLQBN6CXE2bdkyelRWyh_WDigujPTqZ9EdJ9vvkNPCGIy-IuN-VYKFk/s1600/DSC_0231.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="440" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQkThDoscvhqVznk7HYG_7iWMAWcKFoFXJRI-64-9gX1pwLIqUcAuOGj7UgxnmZ0XDrdIZj4LoTKDa1DkczQ_gXLQBN6CXE2bdkyelRWyh_WDigujPTqZ9EdJ9vvkNPCGIy-IuN-VYKFk/s1600/DSC_0231.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>In addition to Hangouts, <a href="//www.google.com/enterprise/apps/business/products/docs/" target="_blank">Google Docs</a> is essential to our business and our preferred way to innovate because it offers a better creative workflow than any other product. Our founders in Amsterdam exchange a lot of ideas with the company’s designers in New York as we prepare for our next-generation release of sleeker Karma models. Google Docs makes it possible for us to easily keep track of our design ideas. Docs is the place we quickly paste media to preserve of our thoughts on the fly. We refine ideas together by exchanging comments within our documents. I write down specific product specs in Docs, knowing our concepts are logged and stored for our design team to access from anywhere.<br /><br />We’re only at the beginning of our journey to liberate people in their quest for mobile connectivity, and we’ve got a lot more in store for our products and company. We’re confident in our ability to achieve our goals and truly make an impact using Google Apps, which allows for mobility and flexibility in communications and productivity — values that align with our mission, too. Between Karma and Google Apps, together we’ll get people out from the confinement of cubicles and into the sun. <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhl7cmKNQUsoRszX1QveyvDAV0YvHxfys1Vziy9vzBWkUEEQFS2O0jZX5gXJIdGT6rY01pV3tMgQO6n045hOVBBaMkVvphFuJTK4TROpKplmi3ubghlZb4lOOgw0gwyNj6s9-U1P8mzv1Y/s1600/photo+3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhl7cmKNQUsoRszX1QveyvDAV0YvHxfys1Vziy9vzBWkUEEQFS2O0jZX5gXJIdGT6rY01pV3tMgQO6n045hOVBBaMkVvphFuJTK4TROpKplmi3ubghlZb4lOOgw0gwyNj6s9-U1P8mzv1Y/s1600/photo+3.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><br /></div> </script> <noscript> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="byline-author">Posted by Amanda Bensol, Vice President of Marketing and Sales, Karma</span> <br /><br /><i><b>Editor's note:</b> Whether it’s taking a meeting over Hangouts from the airport before escaping to a much-deserved vacation or sending work e-mails from an air-conditioned neighborhood cafe, <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2014/07/celebrating-spirit-of-summer.html" target="_blank">technology should help you get your work done faster</a> so you can enjoy the summer months. To celebrate the season of sun, we’re sharing stories from customers who know all about the importance of technology when fostering a culture of mobility and flexibility. Today’s guest blogger is Amanda Bensol, Vice President of Marketing and Sales at <a href="https://yourkarma.com/" target="_blank">Karma</a>, a New York-based startup building a sleek, portable pay-what-you-use WiFi hotspot. </i> <br /><br />Karma empowers people to work wherever they want with an elegantly designed personal portable hotspot. Our team spent years paying exorbitant hotspot data costs while traveling around the world and knew there had to be a better and cheaper way to get online at the many airports, hotels, cafes and trains that didn’t have public Internet access. We set out to solve the problem ourselves with an affordable mobile WiFi hotspot that allows people to work wherever, whenever they want. Karma isn’t just a hotspot — it’s a movement that lets people take back the power to use their data and technology how they want.<br /><br />In order to introduce new ways of working, we hold monthly Karma Outdoors gatherings and invite people to come join us in working outside this summer. Like most people, we enjoy being able to work on our own terms. That’s why <a href="//www.google.com/enterprise/apps/business/" target="_blank">Google Apps</a> has been part of our journey from the start. It’s not a stretch to say that <a href="//www.google.com/enterprise/apps/business/products/hangouts/" target="_blank">Google Hangouts</a> practically built Karma. After the company was started, visa issues caused the founders to return to Amsterdam, leaving me essentially in charge of U.S. operations. Hangouts was a lifeline that allowed us to build and grow the company, even though we were separated by an ocean. <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQkThDoscvhqVznk7HYG_7iWMAWcKFoFXJRI-64-9gX1pwLIqUcAuOGj7UgxnmZ0XDrdIZj4LoTKDa1DkczQ_gXLQBN6CXE2bdkyelRWyh_WDigujPTqZ9EdJ9vvkNPCGIy-IuN-VYKFk/s1600/DSC_0231.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="440" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQkThDoscvhqVznk7HYG_7iWMAWcKFoFXJRI-64-9gX1pwLIqUcAuOGj7UgxnmZ0XDrdIZj4LoTKDa1DkczQ_gXLQBN6CXE2bdkyelRWyh_WDigujPTqZ9EdJ9vvkNPCGIy-IuN-VYKFk/s1600/DSC_0231.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>In addition to Hangouts, <a href="//www.google.com/enterprise/apps/business/products/docs/" target="_blank">Google Docs</a> is essential to our business and our preferred way to innovate because it offers a better creative workflow than any other product. Our founders in Amsterdam exchange a lot of ideas with the company’s designers in New York as we prepare for our next-generation release of sleeker Karma models. Google Docs makes it possible for us to easily keep track of our design ideas. Docs is the place we quickly paste media to preserve of our thoughts on the fly. We refine ideas together by exchanging comments within our documents. I write down specific product specs in Docs, knowing our concepts are logged and stored for our design team to access from anywhere.<br /><br />We’re only at the beginning of our journey to liberate people in their quest for mobile connectivity, and we’ve got a lot more in store for our products and company. We’re confident in our ability to achieve our goals and truly make an impact using Google Apps, which allows for mobility and flexibility in communications and productivity — values that align with our mission, too. Between Karma and Google Apps, together we’ll get people out from the confinement of cubicles and into the sun. <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhl7cmKNQUsoRszX1QveyvDAV0YvHxfys1Vziy9vzBWkUEEQFS2O0jZX5gXJIdGT6rY01pV3tMgQO6n045hOVBBaMkVvphFuJTK4TROpKplmi3ubghlZb4lOOgw0gwyNj6s9-U1P8mzv1Y/s1600/photo+3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhl7cmKNQUsoRszX1QveyvDAV0YvHxfys1Vziy9vzBWkUEEQFS2O0jZX5gXJIdGT6rY01pV3tMgQO6n045hOVBBaMkVvphFuJTK4TROpKplmi3ubghlZb4lOOgw0gwyNj6s9-U1P8mzv1Y/s1600/photo+3.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><br /></div> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='gplus-share social-wrapper' data-href='https://plus.google.com/share?url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2014/08/karma-offers-hotspot-data-power-to.html'> <img alt='Share on Google+' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/branding/google_plus/2x/ic_w_post_gplus_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Google Cloud Blog:Karma offers hotspot data power to the people &url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2014/08/karma-offers-hotspot-data-power-to.html&via=gsuite'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2014/08/karma-offers-hotspot-data-power-to.html'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> <div class='comment-container'> <i class='comment-img material-icons'>  </i> <span class='cmt_count_iframe_holder' data-count='1' data-onclick='' data-post-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2014/08/karma-offers-hotspot-data-power-to.html' data-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2014/08/karma-offers-hotspot-data-power-to.html' style='color: #4184F3;'></span> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='cmt_iframe_holder' data-href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2014/08/karma-offers-hotspot-data-power-to.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> <span class='labels-caption'> Labels: </span> <span class='labels'> <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/customer%20love' rel='tag'> customer love </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Gone%20Google' rel='tag'> Gone Google </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='3659906631111077607' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2014/08/the-climate-corporation-shrinks.html' itemprop='url' title='The Climate Corporation shrinks distance between offices using Chromebox for meetings'> The Climate Corporation shrinks distance between offices using Chromebox for meetings </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Thursday, August 7, 2014 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="byline-author">Posted by Anthony Osborne, Vice President of Marketing for The Climate Corporation</span> <br /><br /><i><b>Editor's note: </b>Today’s guest blogger is Anthony Osborne, Vice President of Marketing for <a href="http://climate.com/" target="_blank">The Climate Corporation</a>, which brings the power of data and technology to the agriculture industry with the ultimate mission of combating climate change. The Climate Corporation is one of many companies outfitting conference rooms with <a href="//www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/business/solutions/for-meetings.html" target="_blank">Chromebox for meetings</a>. To learn more, <a href="http://lp.google-mkto.com/hangout-and-cfm-hoa-aug-2014-registration.html?utm_source=blog&utm_medium=blog&utm_campaign=LCS-2014-CHR-BIZ-Hangout_and_Cfm_HoA--Webinar&utm_content=climate" target="_blank">join us for a live Hangout on Air</a> to see how companies can modernize the meeting room and reimagine collaboration.</i> <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtrvJ8udy5GXqX1bebB2op7wLbDStv0TmlCl4nVswYSkx2vwHiv-I5ZziRWrTh5DlSKkPH3feGHRpkelffRHD9DDpJcQWTiVz_ZG0CoKuJAEGPIGygBqy47d22q-ADUwAelR0tKWEQ0Es/s1600/the_climate_corporation_logo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="104" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtrvJ8udy5GXqX1bebB2op7wLbDStv0TmlCl4nVswYSkx2vwHiv-I5ZziRWrTh5DlSKkPH3feGHRpkelffRHD9DDpJcQWTiVz_ZG0CoKuJAEGPIGygBqy47d22q-ADUwAelR0tKWEQ0Es/s1600/the_climate_corporation_logo.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>You might not associate farmers with technology from the Bay Area, but at The Climate Corporation, we’re dedicated to providing tools for farmers that help maximize their crop yields and use natural resources efficiently. We believe that innovation plays a vital role in their mission; we also apply this belief to improve the way our employees work.<br /><br />Oftentimes, a culture of perpetual innovation means our days are filled back to back with meetings. With offices in San Francisco, Seattle, St. Louis, and Kansas City, coordinating meetings and catch-ups across time zones can pose a number of challenges. The San Francisco team typically gets to work at 9am but stays late; in St. Louis, we’re at work by 7am and out by 6pm. Until recently, most people worked late at the office and often missed out on quality time at home. We flew between our offices for meetings, which cost time and money. And when we weren’t traveling, we held meetings over the phone, which were typically less engaging and productive. We considered high-end video conferencing solutions, but the cost (over $70,000) limited how many conference rooms we could equip. <br /><br />Then we discovered Chromebox for meetings. At a $999 starting price, we can afford to place Chromeboxes in conference rooms across all of our offices and bring our spread-out teams together throughout the day without the travel costs or conference call grievances. Now, it’s almost like our colleagues in San Francisco are in the same room with us in St. Louis. Our IT team loved the easy setup – all they had to do was plug in the display and complete the setup wizard. And our employees love the speed and simplicity of meetings.<br /><br />Not only are Chromeboxes in our conference rooms, but some of us have them at home, too. In my case, I can spend some time with my kids, then jump onto a face-to-face meeting for a half-hour if I need to, all without being forced to stay in the office. <br /><br />Today, 80% of our meetings are now held on Hangouts using Chromebox for meetings. Coupling our new way of collaboration with Google Apps—which we’ve already been using for work, in and out of the office—I’m amazed at how technology transforms our work day. Now that we’re collaborating more efficiently, we can do a much better job of creating products that help our customers monitor the impact of climate on their businesses.</div> </script> <noscript> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="byline-author">Posted by Anthony Osborne, Vice President of Marketing for The Climate Corporation</span> <br /><br /><i><b>Editor's note: </b>Today’s guest blogger is Anthony Osborne, Vice President of Marketing for <a href="http://climate.com/" target="_blank">The Climate Corporation</a>, which brings the power of data and technology to the agriculture industry with the ultimate mission of combating climate change. The Climate Corporation is one of many companies outfitting conference rooms with <a href="//www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/business/solutions/for-meetings.html" target="_blank">Chromebox for meetings</a>. To learn more, <a href="http://lp.google-mkto.com/hangout-and-cfm-hoa-aug-2014-registration.html?utm_source=blog&utm_medium=blog&utm_campaign=LCS-2014-CHR-BIZ-Hangout_and_Cfm_HoA--Webinar&utm_content=climate" target="_blank">join us for a live Hangout on Air</a> to see how companies can modernize the meeting room and reimagine collaboration.</i> <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtrvJ8udy5GXqX1bebB2op7wLbDStv0TmlCl4nVswYSkx2vwHiv-I5ZziRWrTh5DlSKkPH3feGHRpkelffRHD9DDpJcQWTiVz_ZG0CoKuJAEGPIGygBqy47d22q-ADUwAelR0tKWEQ0Es/s1600/the_climate_corporation_logo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="104" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtrvJ8udy5GXqX1bebB2op7wLbDStv0TmlCl4nVswYSkx2vwHiv-I5ZziRWrTh5DlSKkPH3feGHRpkelffRHD9DDpJcQWTiVz_ZG0CoKuJAEGPIGygBqy47d22q-ADUwAelR0tKWEQ0Es/s1600/the_climate_corporation_logo.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>You might not associate farmers with technology from the Bay Area, but at The Climate Corporation, we’re dedicated to providing tools for farmers that help maximize their crop yields and use natural resources efficiently. We believe that innovation plays a vital role in their mission; we also apply this belief to improve the way our employees work.<br /><br />Oftentimes, a culture of perpetual innovation means our days are filled back to back with meetings. With offices in San Francisco, Seattle, St. Louis, and Kansas City, coordinating meetings and catch-ups across time zones can pose a number of challenges. The San Francisco team typically gets to work at 9am but stays late; in St. Louis, we’re at work by 7am and out by 6pm. Until recently, most people worked late at the office and often missed out on quality time at home. We flew between our offices for meetings, which cost time and money. And when we weren’t traveling, we held meetings over the phone, which were typically less engaging and productive. We considered high-end video conferencing solutions, but the cost (over $70,000) limited how many conference rooms we could equip. <br /><br />Then we discovered Chromebox for meetings. At a $999 starting price, we can afford to place Chromeboxes in conference rooms across all of our offices and bring our spread-out teams together throughout the day without the travel costs or conference call grievances. Now, it’s almost like our colleagues in San Francisco are in the same room with us in St. Louis. Our IT team loved the easy setup – all they had to do was plug in the display and complete the setup wizard. And our employees love the speed and simplicity of meetings.<br /><br />Not only are Chromeboxes in our conference rooms, but some of us have them at home, too. In my case, I can spend some time with my kids, then jump onto a face-to-face meeting for a half-hour if I need to, all without being forced to stay in the office. <br /><br />Today, 80% of our meetings are now held on Hangouts using Chromebox for meetings. Coupling our new way of collaboration with Google Apps—which we’ve already been using for work, in and out of the office—I’m amazed at how technology transforms our work day. Now that we’re collaborating more efficiently, we can do a much better job of creating products that help our customers monitor the impact of climate on their businesses.</div> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='gplus-share social-wrapper' data-href='https://plus.google.com/share?url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2014/08/the-climate-corporation-shrinks.html'> <img alt='Share on Google+' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/branding/google_plus/2x/ic_w_post_gplus_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Google Cloud Blog:The Climate Corporation shrinks distance between offices using Chromebox for meetings&url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2014/08/the-climate-corporation-shrinks.html&via=gsuite'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2014/08/the-climate-corporation-shrinks.html'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> <div class='comment-container'> <i class='comment-img material-icons'>  </i> <span class='cmt_count_iframe_holder' data-count='0' data-onclick='' data-post-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2014/08/the-climate-corporation-shrinks.html' data-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2014/08/the-climate-corporation-shrinks.html' style='color: #4184F3;'></span> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='cmt_iframe_holder' data-href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2014/08/the-climate-corporation-shrinks.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> <span class='labels-caption'> Labels: </span> <span class='labels'> <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Chromebox%20for%20meetings' rel='tag'> Chromebox for meetings </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/customer%20love' rel='tag'> customer love </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Gone%20Google' rel='tag'> Gone Google </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='8061574327925262325' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2014/08/washington-and-lee-university-speeds-up.html' itemprop='url' title='Washington and Lee University speeds up campus alerts with Chromebox for signage'> Washington and Lee University speeds up campus alerts with Chromebox for signage </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Wednesday, August 6, 2014 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="byline-author">Posted by Alicia Shires, Classroom Technology Specialist, Washington and Lee University</span> <br /><br /><i><b>Editor's note:</b> Today’s guest blogger is Alicia Shires, Classroom Technology Specialist at <a href="http://www.wlu.edu/" target="_blank">Washington and Lee University</a> in Lexington, Virginia.</i> <br /><i><br /></i>At Washington and Lee University, we pride ourselves on our clear communications to everyone on campus—and if we have to cancel or change classes or events, we want everyone to find out as soon as possible. Our 13 digital signage screens, positioned in key places across campus like the Commons building and several dorms, alert staff and students to the events at the University, along with updates on our sports teams and local weather. When we installed <a href="//www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/business/devices/chromebooks.html#asus-chromebox?utm_source=0714Washington&utm_medium=blog" target="_blank">Google Chromeboxes</a> to replace the crash-prone Windows machines running the screens, it became much easier to bring news to the campus while it’s fresh.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdgQ6KJMj_Cg7HaeLXrWUw8h-QAym_GsZH_fZ5-hP6Nopk4j6vy5Y8BRYC8o8tRvHAda6pnCs3n7LkbH_erXzCGQXxlQtFhcrmxlfajaBJZ0jnlNt-lF9Nk9n2cW1ZXK7TD_yWSjFA1PQ/s1600/300-dpi-symbol.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="145" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdgQ6KJMj_Cg7HaeLXrWUw8h-QAym_GsZH_fZ5-hP6Nopk4j6vy5Y8BRYC8o8tRvHAda6pnCs3n7LkbH_erXzCGQXxlQtFhcrmxlfajaBJZ0jnlNt-lF9Nk9n2cW1ZXK7TD_yWSjFA1PQ/s1600/300-dpi-symbol.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>The personal computers we were using to run display screens had several problems, with unreliability at the top of the list. They were slow to update, and would often crash, leaving the screens completely offline. That meant a delay in delivering information to students and staff until we could reboot the machines remotely. The machines were also slow. When we uploaded information to be displayed, it could take 30 minutes before viewers saw it.<br /><br />These delays could become a big deal if we wanted to deliver time-sensitive information to screens, like weather-related campus closings or emergency situations. Without fast notifications, students and professors could waste time traveling to classes or events that weren’t happening.We knew we needed better hardware to solve the problems of speed and instability. <br /><br /><a href="http://www.risevision.com/" target="_blank">Rise Vision</a>, the developer of the free, open-source platform we use to create and manage our display content, suggested we replace the PCs with <a href="//www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/business/devices/features-management-console.html?utm_source=0714Washington&utm_medium=blog" target="_blank">managed Chromeboxes.</a> We discovered that because Chromeboxes run Chrome OS, they update automatically, so updates don’t interfere with the displays. We can operate Chromeboxes in <a href="https://support.google.com/chromebook/answer/3134673?hl=en" target="_blank">Kiosk mode</a> so we can run the digital signage software at full-screen, which makes our displays look better. Management is largely hands off. I don’t have to touch the boxes and the reboots are fast and automatic. <br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaQd5_Ymles0anv_8RuSKMx1YepJWLHd90-j03Vbt-cjt57B5tyHkKUdf-UlQ89Ka839bdJx2RKPdFrdDA_tjGLyaqLxTzgxcjfLnyp86CokW75xIQ5Xc-NO3L8mPux5MOCQryp_0vB4M/s1600/W&LGoogleBoxAliciaShiresFullSize-11.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaQd5_Ymles0anv_8RuSKMx1YepJWLHd90-j03Vbt-cjt57B5tyHkKUdf-UlQ89Ka839bdJx2RKPdFrdDA_tjGLyaqLxTzgxcjfLnyp86CokW75xIQ5Xc-NO3L8mPux5MOCQryp_0vB4M/s1600/W&LGoogleBoxAliciaShiresFullSize-11.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>Each Chromebox is several hundred dollars less than one of the PCs we were using before, so that’s a big plus for us. They’re extremely reliable and super-fast—when I upload new content from my office, it appears almost immediately on the campus display screens. It’s hard to believe I’m not working directly on the Chromeboxes themselves. They’re also powerful enough to run rich media like HD 1080P videos without choppy playback.<br /><br />Perhaps the best thing about using Chromeboxes for our screens is that we’ve finally been able to kick our emergency notification system into high gear. If we go through another difficult winter, we can quickly push out emergency notices about schools closings, weather delays, and event cancellations. Operating our screens with fast, reliable Chromeboxes is helping us keep everyone on campus not just well-informed, but safe and sound.</div> </script> <noscript> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="byline-author">Posted by Alicia Shires, Classroom Technology Specialist, Washington and Lee University</span> <br /><br /><i><b>Editor's note:</b> Today’s guest blogger is Alicia Shires, Classroom Technology Specialist at <a href="http://www.wlu.edu/" target="_blank">Washington and Lee University</a> in Lexington, Virginia.</i> <br /><i><br /></i>At Washington and Lee University, we pride ourselves on our clear communications to everyone on campus—and if we have to cancel or change classes or events, we want everyone to find out as soon as possible. Our 13 digital signage screens, positioned in key places across campus like the Commons building and several dorms, alert staff and students to the events at the University, along with updates on our sports teams and local weather. When we installed <a href="//www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/business/devices/chromebooks.html#asus-chromebox?utm_source=0714Washington&utm_medium=blog" target="_blank">Google Chromeboxes</a> to replace the crash-prone Windows machines running the screens, it became much easier to bring news to the campus while it’s fresh.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdgQ6KJMj_Cg7HaeLXrWUw8h-QAym_GsZH_fZ5-hP6Nopk4j6vy5Y8BRYC8o8tRvHAda6pnCs3n7LkbH_erXzCGQXxlQtFhcrmxlfajaBJZ0jnlNt-lF9Nk9n2cW1ZXK7TD_yWSjFA1PQ/s1600/300-dpi-symbol.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="145" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdgQ6KJMj_Cg7HaeLXrWUw8h-QAym_GsZH_fZ5-hP6Nopk4j6vy5Y8BRYC8o8tRvHAda6pnCs3n7LkbH_erXzCGQXxlQtFhcrmxlfajaBJZ0jnlNt-lF9Nk9n2cW1ZXK7TD_yWSjFA1PQ/s1600/300-dpi-symbol.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>The personal computers we were using to run display screens had several problems, with unreliability at the top of the list. They were slow to update, and would often crash, leaving the screens completely offline. That meant a delay in delivering information to students and staff until we could reboot the machines remotely. The machines were also slow. When we uploaded information to be displayed, it could take 30 minutes before viewers saw it.<br /><br />These delays could become a big deal if we wanted to deliver time-sensitive information to screens, like weather-related campus closings or emergency situations. Without fast notifications, students and professors could waste time traveling to classes or events that weren’t happening.We knew we needed better hardware to solve the problems of speed and instability. <br /><br /><a href="http://www.risevision.com/" target="_blank">Rise Vision</a>, the developer of the free, open-source platform we use to create and manage our display content, suggested we replace the PCs with <a href="//www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/business/devices/features-management-console.html?utm_source=0714Washington&utm_medium=blog" target="_blank">managed Chromeboxes.</a> We discovered that because Chromeboxes run Chrome OS, they update automatically, so updates don’t interfere with the displays. We can operate Chromeboxes in <a href="https://support.google.com/chromebook/answer/3134673?hl=en" target="_blank">Kiosk mode</a> so we can run the digital signage software at full-screen, which makes our displays look better. Management is largely hands off. I don’t have to touch the boxes and the reboots are fast and automatic. <br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaQd5_Ymles0anv_8RuSKMx1YepJWLHd90-j03Vbt-cjt57B5tyHkKUdf-UlQ89Ka839bdJx2RKPdFrdDA_tjGLyaqLxTzgxcjfLnyp86CokW75xIQ5Xc-NO3L8mPux5MOCQryp_0vB4M/s1600/W&LGoogleBoxAliciaShiresFullSize-11.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaQd5_Ymles0anv_8RuSKMx1YepJWLHd90-j03Vbt-cjt57B5tyHkKUdf-UlQ89Ka839bdJx2RKPdFrdDA_tjGLyaqLxTzgxcjfLnyp86CokW75xIQ5Xc-NO3L8mPux5MOCQryp_0vB4M/s1600/W&LGoogleBoxAliciaShiresFullSize-11.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>Each Chromebox is several hundred dollars less than one of the PCs we were using before, so that’s a big plus for us. They’re extremely reliable and super-fast—when I upload new content from my office, it appears almost immediately on the campus display screens. It’s hard to believe I’m not working directly on the Chromeboxes themselves. They’re also powerful enough to run rich media like HD 1080P videos without choppy playback.<br /><br />Perhaps the best thing about using Chromeboxes for our screens is that we’ve finally been able to kick our emergency notification system into high gear. If we go through another difficult winter, we can quickly push out emergency notices about schools closings, weather delays, and event cancellations. Operating our screens with fast, reliable Chromeboxes is helping us keep everyone on campus not just well-informed, but safe and sound.</div> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='gplus-share social-wrapper' data-href='https://plus.google.com/share?url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2014/08/washington-and-lee-university-speeds-up.html'> <img alt='Share on Google+' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/branding/google_plus/2x/ic_w_post_gplus_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Google Cloud Blog:Washington and Lee University speeds up campus alerts with Chromebox for signage&url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2014/08/washington-and-lee-university-speeds-up.html&via=gsuite'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2014/08/washington-and-lee-university-speeds-up.html'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> <div class='comment-container'> <i class='comment-img material-icons'>  </i> <span class='cmt_count_iframe_holder' data-count='0' data-onclick='' data-post-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2014/08/washington-and-lee-university-speeds-up.html' data-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2014/08/washington-and-lee-university-speeds-up.html' style='color: #4184F3;'></span> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='cmt_iframe_holder' data-href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2014/08/washington-and-lee-university-speeds-up.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> <span class='labels-caption'> Labels: </span> <span class='labels'> <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Chromebox%20for%20signage' rel='tag'> Chromebox for signage </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/customer%20love' rel='tag'> customer love </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Gone%20Google' rel='tag'> Gone Google </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='7401090704272433235' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2014/08/flexible-it-can-unlock-japan-mobile.html' itemprop='url' title=' Flexible IT can unlock Japan's mobile potential'> Flexible IT can unlock Japan's mobile potential </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Tuesday, August 5, 2014 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="byline-author">Posted by Shinichi Abe, Enterprise Managing Director, Japan</span><br /><br />Japanese companies are facing major challenges for long-term success. The rapid graying of society is shrinking the workforce, leaving only 62% of the population in the working age. Inflexible workplace practices prevent many women from returning to their careers after childbirth. The Japan Productivity Center <a href="http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2001/11/15/business/japan-ranks-low-in-productivity/#.U9j0K2RdXC9" target="_blank">ranks</a> Japan lowest of the Group of Seven most advanced nations in productivity, despite some of the world’s longest work hours. <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBT4vfYZBjKj-a7NZ-L4DeOogRmfUk1sy-Z5taZquptRdVl6_ZC2_hcsRxHohCpZ_SBRAMD_ryiKdjtugy6s0_2yL6KIxDyKe6HSMse-a9NzQhPTiOM_ALEi_cW4cl7GArgCR-KTt43iM/s1600/0004+(1).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="425" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBT4vfYZBjKj-a7NZ-L4DeOogRmfUk1sy-Z5taZquptRdVl6_ZC2_hcsRxHohCpZ_SBRAMD_ryiKdjtugy6s0_2yL6KIxDyKe6HSMse-a9NzQhPTiOM_ALEi_cW4cl7GArgCR-KTt43iM/s1600/0004+(1).jpg" width="640" /></a></div>As pressure mounts on Japanese businesses to find new ways to be productive and to attract and retain top talent, we asked Deloitte to take a look at how mobile and digital tools might be able to help. According to their new report, <a href="http://www.tohmatsu.com/assets/Dcom-Japan/Local%20Assets/Documents/Press/Release/jp_p_press20140731_dtcdtreport310714.pdf" target="_blank">Japan’s Mobile Potential</a>, access to mobile devices for work and more flexible IT policies could help unlock almost 2 trillion yen for the Japanese economy and keep some of Japan’s most skilled people in the workforce. There are a number of additional findings from the report which may be useful for businesses including: <br /><br /><b>Japanese businesses are missing out on a massive mobile opportunity</b><br />Deloitte found that despite having one highest rates of smartphone use in the world — 75% of people between 18 and 49 own a personal smartphone — less than 9% use their smartphone for work. Of the same group, 20% of people own a tablet computer at home, but only 3% of these people have access to a tablet for their work tasks.<br /><br /><b>People want to work more flexibly with digital and mobile tools</b><br />71% of people said that they would be more productive if they had access to digital tools like smartphones, laptops and tablets for work, as it would enable them to work from home or while commuting.<br /><br /><b>Workplace IT has some catching up to do </b><br />Many people say that their home IT is better than what they’re given at work. They rate their home technology as more user friendly (51%), more up to date (45%) and said that their internet was faster (43%). Almost half of the respondents said that they are frustrated with their workplace IT, as their computers and internet speeds are too slow and their devices are outdated. <br /><br /><b>Employees with flexible workplace IT policies are more productive </b><br />Businesses that allow their employees to work from home or work remotely with digital tools said they are more productive. And none of the respondents with flexible workplace IT policies said they work overtime, while 31% of those without this approach said they regularly work overtime. <br /><br /><b>Mobile devices and flexible IT policies could unlock two trillion yen for the Japanese economy</b><br />Deloitte found that the Japanese economy could generate 2 trillion yen if businesses provided digital tools like smartphones, laptops and tablets to people who want to work, but don't have direct access to the tools they need to work from home or remotely. When you consider that they did not calculate the economic impact of giving people who are working access to digital tools and flexible workplace policies, this figure could be much higher.<br /><br />You can learn more about Japan’s mobile potential from <a href="http://www.tohmatsu.com/assets/Dcom-Japan/Local%20Assets/Documents/Press/Release/jp_p_press20140731_dtcdtreport310714.pdf" target="_blank">Deloitte’s report</a>, and to find out how Google can help your company work flexibly with mobile tools visit the <a href="//www.google.com/enterprise/" target="_blank">Google Enterprise website</a>.<br /><br /></div> </script> <noscript> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="byline-author">Posted by Shinichi Abe, Enterprise Managing Director, Japan</span><br /><br />Japanese companies are facing major challenges for long-term success. The rapid graying of society is shrinking the workforce, leaving only 62% of the population in the working age. Inflexible workplace practices prevent many women from returning to their careers after childbirth. The Japan Productivity Center <a href="http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2001/11/15/business/japan-ranks-low-in-productivity/#.U9j0K2RdXC9" target="_blank">ranks</a> Japan lowest of the Group of Seven most advanced nations in productivity, despite some of the world’s longest work hours. <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBT4vfYZBjKj-a7NZ-L4DeOogRmfUk1sy-Z5taZquptRdVl6_ZC2_hcsRxHohCpZ_SBRAMD_ryiKdjtugy6s0_2yL6KIxDyKe6HSMse-a9NzQhPTiOM_ALEi_cW4cl7GArgCR-KTt43iM/s1600/0004+(1).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="425" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBT4vfYZBjKj-a7NZ-L4DeOogRmfUk1sy-Z5taZquptRdVl6_ZC2_hcsRxHohCpZ_SBRAMD_ryiKdjtugy6s0_2yL6KIxDyKe6HSMse-a9NzQhPTiOM_ALEi_cW4cl7GArgCR-KTt43iM/s1600/0004+(1).jpg" width="640" /></a></div>As pressure mounts on Japanese businesses to find new ways to be productive and to attract and retain top talent, we asked Deloitte to take a look at how mobile and digital tools might be able to help. According to their new report, <a href="http://www.tohmatsu.com/assets/Dcom-Japan/Local%20Assets/Documents/Press/Release/jp_p_press20140731_dtcdtreport310714.pdf" target="_blank">Japan’s Mobile Potential</a>, access to mobile devices for work and more flexible IT policies could help unlock almost 2 trillion yen for the Japanese economy and keep some of Japan’s most skilled people in the workforce. There are a number of additional findings from the report which may be useful for businesses including: <br /><br /><b>Japanese businesses are missing out on a massive mobile opportunity</b><br />Deloitte found that despite having one highest rates of smartphone use in the world — 75% of people between 18 and 49 own a personal smartphone — less than 9% use their smartphone for work. Of the same group, 20% of people own a tablet computer at home, but only 3% of these people have access to a tablet for their work tasks.<br /><br /><b>People want to work more flexibly with digital and mobile tools</b><br />71% of people said that they would be more productive if they had access to digital tools like smartphones, laptops and tablets for work, as it would enable them to work from home or while commuting.<br /><br /><b>Workplace IT has some catching up to do </b><br />Many people say that their home IT is better than what they’re given at work. They rate their home technology as more user friendly (51%), more up to date (45%) and said that their internet was faster (43%). Almost half of the respondents said that they are frustrated with their workplace IT, as their computers and internet speeds are too slow and their devices are outdated. <br /><br /><b>Employees with flexible workplace IT policies are more productive </b><br />Businesses that allow their employees to work from home or work remotely with digital tools said they are more productive. And none of the respondents with flexible workplace IT policies said they work overtime, while 31% of those without this approach said they regularly work overtime. <br /><br /><b>Mobile devices and flexible IT policies could unlock two trillion yen for the Japanese economy</b><br />Deloitte found that the Japanese economy could generate 2 trillion yen if businesses provided digital tools like smartphones, laptops and tablets to people who want to work, but don't have direct access to the tools they need to work from home or remotely. When you consider that they did not calculate the economic impact of giving people who are working access to digital tools and flexible workplace policies, this figure could be much higher.<br /><br />You can learn more about Japan’s mobile potential from <a href="http://www.tohmatsu.com/assets/Dcom-Japan/Local%20Assets/Documents/Press/Release/jp_p_press20140731_dtcdtreport310714.pdf" target="_blank">Deloitte’s report</a>, and to find out how Google can help your company work flexibly with mobile tools visit the <a href="//www.google.com/enterprise/" target="_blank">Google Enterprise website</a>.<br /><br /></div> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='gplus-share social-wrapper' data-href='https://plus.google.com/share?url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2014/08/flexible-it-can-unlock-japan-mobile.html'> <img alt='Share on Google+' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/branding/google_plus/2x/ic_w_post_gplus_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Google Cloud Blog: Flexible IT can unlock Japan's mobile potential&url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2014/08/flexible-it-can-unlock-japan-mobile.html&via=gsuite'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2014/08/flexible-it-can-unlock-japan-mobile.html'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> <div class='comment-container'> <i class='comment-img material-icons'>  </i> <span class='cmt_count_iframe_holder' data-count='0' data-onclick='' data-post-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2014/08/flexible-it-can-unlock-japan-mobile.html' data-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2014/08/flexible-it-can-unlock-japan-mobile.html' style='color: #4184F3;'></span> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='cmt_iframe_holder' data-href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2014/08/flexible-it-can-unlock-japan-mobile.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> <span class='labels-caption'> Labels: </span> <span class='labels'> <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/mobile' rel='tag'> mobile </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='2265455324202503697' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2014/08/a-first-step-toward-more-global-email.html' itemprop='url' title='A first step toward more global email'> A first step toward more global email </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Tuesday, August 5, 2014 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Posted by Pedro Chaparro Monferrer, Software Engineer, Gmail<br /><i><br />Cross-posted on the <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2014/08/a-first-step-toward-more-global-email.html">Official Google Blog</a> </i><br /><br />Whether your email address is firstname.lastname@ or something more expressive like corgicrazy@, an email address says something about who you are. But from the start, email addresses have always required you to use non-accented Latin characters when signing up. Less than half of the world’s population has a mother tongue that uses the Latin alphabet. And even fewer people use only the letters A-Z. So if your name (or that of your favorite pet) contains accented characters (like “José Ramón”) or is written in another script like Chinese or Devanagari, your email address options are limited. <br /><br />But all that could change. In 2012, an organization called the <a href="https://www.ietf.org/">Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)</a> created a new email <a href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6530">standard</a> that supports addresses with non-Latin and accented Latin characters (e.g. 武＠メール.グーグル). In order for this standard to become a reality, every email provider and every website that asks you for your email address must adopt it. That’s obviously a tough hill to climb. The technology is there, but someone has to take the first step. <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikOjyPf0IlGtNGUtT09OhZvsjn46n347rOqg-uv5pwYLFEwTZ0BxoaIa2eyHs4k5WBnWikdJynj4K2fzoxCH2N5Wutk2S-8pcCl7o5Iou6lBRWXwxwabmAQZt8-Wer5m9Ni8N8H-fMGF8/s1600/internationalized_email_address2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="251" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikOjyPf0IlGtNGUtT09OhZvsjn46n347rOqg-uv5pwYLFEwTZ0BxoaIa2eyHs4k5WBnWikdJynj4K2fzoxCH2N5Wutk2S-8pcCl7o5Iou6lBRWXwxwabmAQZt8-Wer5m9Ni8N8H-fMGF8/s1600/internationalized_email_address2.png" width="640" /></a></div>Today we're ready to be that someone. Starting now, Gmail (and shortly, Calendar) will recognize addresses that contain accented or non-Latin characters. This means Gmail users can send emails to, and receive emails from, people who have these characters in their email addresses. Of course, this is just a first step and there’s still a ways to go. In the future, we want to make it possible for you to use them to create Gmail accounts. <br /><br />Last month, we <a href="http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2014/07/thirteen-new-languages-for-gmail_7.html">announced the addition of 13 new languages</a> in Gmail. Language should never be a barrier when it comes to connecting with others and with this step forward, truly global email is now even closer to becoming a reality.</div> </script> <noscript> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Posted by Pedro Chaparro Monferrer, Software Engineer, Gmail<br /><i><br />Cross-posted on the <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2014/08/a-first-step-toward-more-global-email.html">Official Google Blog</a> </i><br /><br />Whether your email address is firstname.lastname@ or something more expressive like corgicrazy@, an email address says something about who you are. But from the start, email addresses have always required you to use non-accented Latin characters when signing up. Less than half of the world’s population has a mother tongue that uses the Latin alphabet. And even fewer people use only the letters A-Z. So if your name (or that of your favorite pet) contains accented characters (like “José Ramón”) or is written in another script like Chinese or Devanagari, your email address options are limited. <br /><br />But all that could change. In 2012, an organization called the <a href="https://www.ietf.org/">Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)</a> created a new email <a href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6530">standard</a> that supports addresses with non-Latin and accented Latin characters (e.g. 武＠メール.グーグル). In order for this standard to become a reality, every email provider and every website that asks you for your email address must adopt it. That’s obviously a tough hill to climb. The technology is there, but someone has to take the first step. <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikOjyPf0IlGtNGUtT09OhZvsjn46n347rOqg-uv5pwYLFEwTZ0BxoaIa2eyHs4k5WBnWikdJynj4K2fzoxCH2N5Wutk2S-8pcCl7o5Iou6lBRWXwxwabmAQZt8-Wer5m9Ni8N8H-fMGF8/s1600/internationalized_email_address2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="251" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikOjyPf0IlGtNGUtT09OhZvsjn46n347rOqg-uv5pwYLFEwTZ0BxoaIa2eyHs4k5WBnWikdJynj4K2fzoxCH2N5Wutk2S-8pcCl7o5Iou6lBRWXwxwabmAQZt8-Wer5m9Ni8N8H-fMGF8/s1600/internationalized_email_address2.png" width="640" /></a></div>Today we're ready to be that someone. Starting now, Gmail (and shortly, Calendar) will recognize addresses that contain accented or non-Latin characters. This means Gmail users can send emails to, and receive emails from, people who have these characters in their email addresses. Of course, this is just a first step and there’s still a ways to go. In the future, we want to make it possible for you to use them to create Gmail accounts. <br /><br />Last month, we <a href="http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2014/07/thirteen-new-languages-for-gmail_7.html">announced the addition of 13 new languages</a> in Gmail. 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