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How the World Connects: Why Half a Million Businesses Choose Zoom

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  We help people stay connected so they can get more done together. Teams around the world use the entire Zoom platform to enable new ways of working, learning, providing healthcare, delivering services, hosting events, and empowering a hybrid workforce. Thanks to your support, we’ve grown over the past decade from a video conferencing solution to a communications platform that encompasses unified communications, developer, and event solutions. All these services provide a foundation upon which organizations can grow, innovate, and accomplish more — all while forging deep connections with the people they care about. We’re proud to play a fundamental role in how the world connects.  Half a million businesses globally  choose Zoom for their critical communications, including:  70% of the Fortune 100  Over half of the Fortune 500  85% of the Forbes Cloud 100, the world’s top private cloud companies  Every day, I’m amazed by how our customers use the Zoom ...

Choosing a network connectivity option in Google Cloud

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  The cloud is an incredible resource, but you can’t get the most out of it if you can’t interact with it efficiently. And because network connectivity is not a one-size-fits-all situation, you need options for connecting your on-premises network or another cloud provider to Google’s network. When you need to connect to Google’s network you have the following options: Connecting to Google Cloud: Cloud Interconnect and Cloud VPN Connecting two or more on-premises sites through Google Cloud: Network Connectivity Center Connecting to Google Workspace and Google APIs: Peering Connecting to CDN providers: CDN Interconnect   Connecting to Google Cloud: Cloud Interconnect and Cloud VPN If you need to encrypt traffic to Google Cloud,you need a lower throughput solution, or you are experimenting with migrating your workloads to Google Cloud, you can choose Cloud VPN. If you need an enterprise-grade connection to Google Cloud that has higher throughput, you can choose Dedicated Int...

Easily add citations in Google Docs with new search and automated entry function

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  When adding citations in Google Docs, you can now search for books and online sources, then automatically populate some attributes for those sources.  Citations are an important aspect of many types of documents. This new search and automatic addition function makes it quicker and easier to add citations. By automating part of the source creation process, and ensuring correct formatting, we hope to save you time and reduce manual errors while managing citations.  This feature will be available automatically. In every document, users can find the feature using the Tools > Citations menu item. Rapid Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on November 2, 2021  Scheduled Release domains: Full rollout (1–3 days for feature visibility) starting on November 29, 2021 Available to all Google Workspace customers, as well as G Suite Basic and Business customers  Available to users with personal Google Accounts  Google Work...

Zoom Supports Continued Access for Basic Users with Advertising Program

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  Zoom’s mission is to deliver happiness by bringing people together. As the pandemic took hold in 2020, we experienced exponential growth, and our user base expanded from primarily enterprise users to include a large volume of individual users. Today, millions of users around the world continue to access Zoom’s products and services for free. And it is important to Zoom that we can continue to provide our products and services to our users, drive innovation, and add even more value. With this in mind, today we are excited to roll out a pilot advertising program that we expect will enable us to support investment and continue providing free Basic users with access to our robust platform. For this initial program, ads will be rolled out only on the browser page users see once they end their meeting. Only free Basic users in certain countries will see these ads if they join meetings that are hosted by other free Basic users.  We have carefully and thoughtfully considered how to ...

Improved and updated security menu in the Admin Console

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  Quick launch summary  We have updated the “Security” category within the left-hand navigation of the Admin console by:  Adding navigation access to security features previously only accessible from the Security settings page.  Adding Authentication, Access & data controls, and Security center subcategories making it easier to find the features available.  Updating the name of the Security Settings page to Overview.  We hope these improvements will make it easier for admins to discover, access, and manage our suite of security tools. The updated Security navigation within the Admin console Additional details Instead of the previous single list, security features are now categorized by Authentication, Access & data controls, and Security center.  Availability of some subcategories and features will depend on your specific Google Workspace edition: Authentication  provides account and password management capabilities including: 2-step verif...

As email turns 50, the @ symbol continues to fuel collaboration

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  Like many technical breakthroughs, email began as an experiment. In 1971, Ray Tomlinson, a recent graduate of MIT, was looking for interesting problems to solve. He was hired to help build ARPANET, the precursor to the modern internet, and during his first year on the job he came up with a simple yet ingenious way to send messages between networked computers. He created an address system that put a user’s login name in front of the @ symbol and the computer hostname on the other side. Although the first successful test message traveled just 10 feet between computers, it became a technological milestone. Tomlinson, who died in 2016, could never remember exactly what was in that first message, but in interviews he speculated that it was “something like QWERTYUIOP” — the top row of letters on an English-language keyboard. Today we’re joining with Amazon, Microsoft, Yahoo Mail, The Messaging, Malware and Mobile Anti-Abuse Working Group (M3AAWG) and others in celebrating Tomlinson’s i...

Financial Services CIOs Speak to Embracing New Ways of Working

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Digital collaboration used to be a novelty for the financial services industry. Known for its traditional office culture and paper-based processes, the industry suddenly had to find a new pace for change when it was tasked with operationalizing widespread remote work and digital transformation last year. But what was once a pandemic-specific necessity soon became a competitive advantage — leading to improved employee experiences and better client engagement.  I spoke to this paradigm shift within the industry during Zoomtopia 2021, joined by Greg Driscoll, CIO at Penn Mutual; Sathish Muthukrishnan, CIO at Ally; Mona Breed, CIO at Moody’s; and Neal Sample, CIO at Northwestern Mutual, to discuss how video technology is a catalyst for change. From return to work planning to improving client experience, check out our customers’ unique insights on the impact of digital collaboration technology: Operationalizing hybrid work “At Penn Mutual, we’ve gone full flex. We surveyed our employee ...