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Unlimit your business with Google Drive for Work
Thursday, June 26, 2014
Cross-posted from the
Google Enterprise Blog
.
The workplace is full of files that capture your best ideas or your team’s most productive collaborations. But those files aren’t useful if you’re unable to access or share them effectively. That’s why, just two years ago, we introduced Google Drive. Today more than 190 million people actively use it at home, school and work. Drive keeps all your work safe, and makes it available everywhere and easy to share. Companies around the world like Crate & Barrel, Seagate, Tory Burch, HP and Jaguar Land Rover rely on Drive to work faster and collaborate better with their coworkers and customers.
But we’ve also heard from businesses that they want more control and security, visibility into how files are shared, and a product that will grow with them. So we’ve been working to make Drive even better for business, and today at
Google I/O
we announced
Google Drive for Work
— a new premium offering for businesses that includes unlimited storage, advanced audit reporting and new security controls for $10/user/month.
More control, more visibility
Google Drive for Work combines the familiar storage, sync and share experience of Google Drive with new admin controls, advanced file audit reporting and eDiscovery services. New fine-grained controls let admins customize the Drive experience, such as which employees can install the desktop sync client. With the new audit view you can see activity like moving, deleting or sharing a file within or outside the company, and an audit API will also be available for developers.
Google Apps Vault
, our solution for search and discovery for compliance needs, is also included with Drive for Work, expanding to cover all content stored in Drive, including Docs, Sheets and Slides, as well as any other file type.
More than enough space for all your work
Every year companies create more data than the last, adding megabytes, gigabytes and terabytes. Well, today, we’re taking bytes out of the conversation. For $10/user/month, businesses get unlimited storage for all their employees and can store files up to 5 TB in size (To put that in perspective, no desktop or laptop on the market today even has a hard drive big enough to capture and store a file that size).
More security
As of today, 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.
More productivity
Some of the most common file types stored in Drive are Microsoft Word, Excel® and PowerPoint® files. We’ve now built the power of
Quickoffice
into Docs, Sheets and Slides, so you can open and edit those documents in their native format using
Office Compatibility Mode
directly on
Android
and
Chrome browser
today, and coming soon to iOS. No need to buy additional software or decide how to open your file. Editing Office files is just a click or tap away from Drive on your computer, tablet or phone.
Ready for your business, available today
Google Drive for Work includes the benefits and guarantees of Google Apps for Business, like 24x7 phone support and a 99.9% uptime guarantee. You also get access to all of Google’s productivity apps like Docs, Sheets, Slides, Sites and Hangouts, so you collaborate in even more ways. Drive for Work also offers enterprise-grade security and compliance, including a SSAE 16 / ISAE 3402 Type II, SOC 2-audit, ISO 27001 certification, adherence to the Safe Harbor Privacy Principles, and can support industry-specific requirements like HIPAA.
Drive for Work is available globally, today. If you’re a current Apps customer you can upgrade from the Admin console to get new features like unlimited storage. If you’re new to using Google at work you can
learn more
about Google Drive for Work on the web, or
contact us
for more information.
Posted by: Scott Johnston, Director of Product Management, Google Drive
What video quality do you watch your YouTube in?
Friday, June 13, 2014
Learning
how to do the perfect smokey eye
can be difficult if the YouTube makeup tutorial you’re watching keeps buffering or going fuzzy, which is why we’re always working to make videos play in the best quality possible. If you’re regularly seeing a buffering wheel when you play YouTube videos, it’s important to know why.
Starting today, Kiwis can use the
Google Video Quality Report
to better understand the video quality available from their Internet service providers.
You can also see the video quality other ISPs in your area are delivering, based on these levels:
HD Verified: Users on YouTube HD Verified networks should expect smooth playback most of the time when watching high-definition YouTube videos (720p and above).
Standard Definition: Users on networks rated as Standard Definition should expect smooth playback on standard-definition YouTube videos (360p) and may experience occasional interruptions on high-definition YouTube videos (720p and above).
Lower Definition: Users on networks rated as Lower Definition may experience fuzzy picture quality and frequent interruptions while playing YouTube videos at 360p and above.
If you’re keen to learn more about how we came up with these classifications, read more
here
, and learn how videos get from us to you with
this video
.
You can also help make sure you're getting the best video quality possible with these seven simple steps:
We hope to keep finding better ways to bring you the best video experience possible, and part of that is helping you understand the way YouTube videos play when you watch it today. If the YouTube videos you watch are constantly lagging, we want to help you better understand why.
Posted by Jay Akkad, Product Manager, YouTube
More Chromebooks for Kiwis
Tuesday, June 3, 2014
For the last two years, the kids at
Pt England school
in Auckland have been using Chromebooks to learn in a more collaborative way. Easy to use, fast and very secure, Chromebooks have proved a hit in the classroom and have even helped improve learning outcomes. Now with today’s official launch of Chromebooks in New Zealand everyone can get their hands on one.
From watching
the latest antics from Jamie
on YouTube at home, to
listening to Lorde
on the go, today we’re all spending more time online. In this increasingly connected world, computing should be fast, secure and hassle-free, so you can access your stuff and get things done from wherever you are. Chromebooks are
designed for this world, and since launching a few years back
have become the go-to laptop for many people around the world.
Now
Kiwis will have a range of Chromebooks to choose from — the Acer C720, the Acer C720P, the Toshiba Chromebook 13, the HP Chromebook or the HP Chromebook 14. All the Chromebooks are light and portable with a battery that will last the whole day. They also feature Intel’s 4th generation Celeron processor which means they’re nice and zippy. The HP Chromebook 11 comes in variety of colours too, so you can pick one that matches your wardrobe.
If you’ve been looking for a computer that makes it easier to get stuff done, pick up a Chromebook from Dick Smith, Harvey Norman, JB Hi-Fi and Noel Leeming in store or online.
Posted by Annie Baxter, Head of Communications, Google New Zealand
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