10 best features of Google Workspace for small business

Given the increasing prevalence of remote working and the ever-changing nature of office life, many small businesses are quickly adapting to the challenges of having as many employees working away from the office as on the premises. The good news is that Google Workspace provides a cloud-based service, which comes with a range of features suited to small businesses with …

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Google is having second thoughts about the hybrid working revolution

Google has mixed feelings about the prospect of hybrid working, whereby employees divide their time between home and the office, the firm’s latest 10-K report suggests. The new report explains the company is still experimenting with the model and that it expects its competitiveness and “corporate culture” to take a hit as a result. “As we prepare to return our …

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Google Cloud has the ‘best performing cloud’, but AWS the most cost-efficient

Among the big three cloud providers – Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and the Google Cloud Platform (GPC) – the latter is the best performer in terms of throughput. AWS, on the other hand, has lowest network latency. This is according to the third annual Cloud Report, published recently by commercial database management firm Cockroach Labs. As per a …

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Google wants AI scientists to be more positive

When it comes to AI research, Google has put in place measures designed to help the firm navigate potentially sensitive topics (e.g. race and religion) more effectively. But some have suggested the level of caution exercised by the company could amount to censorship. According to a Reuters report, Google has added an extra layer of checks for all the research …

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Google wants cloud services to be more open and transparent

Google wants businesses to be able to manoeuvre easily between public clouds, using the infrastructure they want, when they want it – and without getting locked into a single vendor or having trouble accessing data elsewhere. The firm calls this the “open cloud” approach.   According to Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian, the company has been working open cloud for …

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Google is making big changes to your online storage

Google has announced a series of important changes to the free cloud storage service available to Google Workspace (formerly G Suite) users. Announcing the changes in a blog post, the firm explained that high-resolution images, as well as Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, Drawings, Forms and Jamboard content, will start to contribute towards each user’s cloud storage capacity as of  June …

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Google Cloud is going 100 percent carbon free

Google wants to demonstrate that a carbon-free economy is entirely possible, and it’s going to use its cloud business as an example. Urs Hölzle, Google Cloud SVP for Technical Infrastructure, has announced a pledge to run the entirety of the company’s operations on solar and wind energy by 2030. “Today, we set our most ambitious energy goal yet: to run …

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AWS and Google Cloud help push cloud revenues to new highs

The global shift towards remote working has led to another bumper quarter for the world’s top cloud computing companies. Amazon Web Services (AWS) has revealed it saw a 29% growth in revenues for its Q2 as demand for cloud computing around the world continued to increase. However this was overshadowed by rival Google Cloud, which revealed its Q2 revenues grew …

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