...Google Drive vs. Dropbox Inc. ENGL101-1402A-03 April 23, 2014 Google Drive vs. Dropbox Inc. Being in college or any higher learning institute is a task all in itself. It doesn’t really matter what level we're at whether it’s undergraduate or going for our masters or doctorate. Being a student of any sort usually consumes our life and most of our time. Take for example, the essay. Whether it’s for research, compare and contrast, problem and solution or your standard narrative essay, we often are utilizing various files and resources to complete our required tasks. Many of us already have jobs and families that consume our lives, and that can take away from our academic responsibilities. This can be a difficult thing to juggle, but what if you could have your files, content, personal documents, movies, and etc. everywhere and accessible all the time. I am talking about cloud storage and its limitless potential to make our lives as seamless as possible. There are two really big names in the cloud storage industry such as Google’s Drive, and Dropbox file storage but which one is for you? Both Google Drive and Dropbox make excellent choices for cloud storage, but deciding which is best depends on your lifestyle, your finances, and your preference in features. Of the many services and apps that Google provides, Drive is arguably the best service it provides, well outside of Gmail. Having a Google account automatically gives you 15GB of free cloud storage. All of Google’s services...
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...Web or Mobile Applications- Google Drive Jonie Bonfield IT/205 Saturday, July 26, 2014 Karen Diggs Web or Mobile Applications-GOOGLE DRIVE Google.com is not only a top search engine on its own, but the majority of Google’s web applications are highly ranked as well. Google’s mission statement says a lot about what it offers- “Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.” This is not surprising, as on a regular basis we can find information on how other Google web applications- Google Forms, Google Drive, Google Docs, and Google Calendar have been groundbreaking for millions. For the sake of this assignment, Google Drive is the main subject of this paper. We can go into any office building throughout the world and find numerous technology devices and tools used to save and share information between other people and computers. These devices and tools can include USB flash drives, portable harddrives, memory sticks, data CDs, etc. However, all of these are disposable. Meaning they can be ruined, destroyed, erased, and stolen. How is that a benefit to our work environment? So say we saved an incredibly important research project on a USB drive, a couple of USB drives actually, just in case. What are our options if those USB drives were to disappear or get ruined somehow? How could, as they say, “the show go on”? Seriously, what are the options for us to present those barrier breaking research results to the major...
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...the wheel. That's according to a new report by Google about its self-driving car project, a document that tallies every accident since it began testing its 32 vehicles on the roads in 2009. That sounds like it could be a massive dataset, considering the tens of thousands of accidents that happen on American roadways each year. It actually isn’t: “In the six years of our project, we’ve been involved in 12 minor accidents during more than 1.8 million miles of autonomous and manual driving combined,” Google wrote. “Not once was the self-driving car the cause of the accident.” Not once! In the case of the fender bender four summers ago, a Google employee—yes, a human—was to blame. He had borrowed the car to run a quick errand and ended up rear-ending another car. (“He was not using the vehicle to test our autonomous technology,” Google wrote, and the car ended up sustaining “some damage.”) So what ended up being probably a pretty bad day for that Google employee—imagine telling your boss you crashed the driverless car—turns out to be a tidy example of the key difference between human drivers and algorithmic ones. Namely: Robots are much, much better drivers than humans. Google’s descriptions of the other accidents involving its self-driving cars reiterates that point. Its cars were rear-ended eight times, merged into once, and struck from the side once. One other collision that didn't cause any damage involved a non-Google car’s mirror grazing the side sensor of an automated...
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...Google is an innovative company typically known for their Internet search browser. However, the organization has multiple side projects which are all in different phases of research and development or production. Google’s home automated Nest product is on selves now, and Google Fiber services are available in limited locations. Moreover, Google’s automated vehicle, the Waymo, has been captured in the media’s spotlight anticipating any news about a potential release date. Additionally, Google’s Project Loon is still in the research and development phase. All these products have the potential to change the world, by automating technologies, and providing essential services to people who have lacked the means of connecting to the Internet. However, these ventures all share some public concern, but ultimately assist in creating technology designed to simplify and enhance individual’s lives. Self-Driving Automobile Waymo is the name Google has given to their self-automated vehicle. The vehicle which is capable of transporting people on the streets of any city or on long...
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...Organizing Paper; Google MGT/330 Management Theory, Practice, and Application Preface Google is one of largest search engine organizations in the world. What began as a small search engine within Stanford University grew into the multi-million dollar company Google. The company began as the brainchild of two Stanford Computer Science student, Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Originally, the search engine was named Backrub (Google, 2011). After graduating, the pair changed the company name to Google. In 1998 the first Google website went live. Aside from the relatively quick rise of the company, the organizational structure of the company is impressive. Google is number four on Fortune’s “100 Best Companies to Work For” in 2010 (CNN, 2010). Two areas in which Google’s leadership has succeeded are technology and human resources. The following is an in-depth look at how Google has organized the human resources aspect and how this organization has affected the company’s culture and employees. In addition, the company’s use of technology is analyzed and how this use has contributed to the success of the organization. Organizing People There are four functions of management: Planning, organizing, leading, and controlling (Bateman and Snell, 2009). The way an organization organizes the people it employs and how the company’s human resource department deals with the employees is a huge portion of the organizing function of management. Without people there would likely not be a company...
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...enabling faultless access to the organization data and with services, applications and features that are vibrant and updatable immediately. User interface As most of the employees have better understanding on using Windows more than Ubuntu. This is because Windows’s reputation is far higher than Ubuntu at the outside world. But when come inside to IT field, the result is opposite. This is because Ubuntu has ability to customize the OS and make it more even better. By referring to appendix, from figure 1to figure 10 is mentioning about Windows vs Ubuntu of the OS interface. From here, you will know the differences between Windows and Ubuntu. Nowadays there are a lot of applications provide cloud computing like Skydrive from Outlook, Google Drive, Dropbox, Youtube, Ubuntu One and etc. These applications are easy to use and most of the applications are free, hence it is friendly user. Users who use Ubuntu as Operating...
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...companies that come to mind first have to be Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo. Two years ago they ranked as the most visited sites in the world. Google was number one with 147 million visits a month. Facebook was second with 132 million, and Yahoo was close behind with 130 million. The Search industry is a true conundrum in and of itself because of the dynamic among that top three I spoke of. Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft are each other’s competition, but at one point or another they have actually worked together. Granted the only reason for this was for individual benefit, NOT for brotherhood or solidarity. Even so, that is still pretty much unheard of on any other industry. Early on in Google’s infancy, Yahoo actually was a customer of its search engines. Of course when Yahoo broke away from them, there was some legal wrangling over patents, and Microsoft actually tried to actually takeover Yahoo some years ago. Well, eventually Yahoo reached an agreement with Google to host their search ads. This alliance gained Yahoo nearly one billion dollars in revenue. But, like every time any of these companies try to play nice it failed again. Google pulled out after receiving a warning from the U.S. Justice Department that their partnership could possibly violate antitrust statutes. Essentially, over the course of their existence Google and Microsoft have been showing growth while Yahoo has struggled. Without Google and Microsoft helping Yahoo probably would not still be...
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...specially pertaining to security and privacy. The system should have the capability to protect the privacy and confidentiality of information. Cloud storage has emerged as the optimal solution to meet the requirements of cost containment, pervasive access and real time availability of service with a scalability web based architecture for accessing data and providing to meet the growing demand. An education system support based on cloud storage will eventually help in efficiently managing the education system in an institution. This study explores the capabilities of cloud storage as a cost effective solution for implementing an education support system. To prove the point, a web based storage system called Google Drive was selected as the best...
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...Introduction Google is a company that specializes in internet search and online advertising, and an important player in the knowledge-based services industry. Since its very beginnings, this company has focused on innovation and new ways of doing things more efficiently and effectively, and it has paid off for it. Its Human Resources (HR) practices are no exception either. Under the motif “best place to work for”, Google has become one of the best employers to work for, and has won numerous awards and listings from the best industry analysts. It attracts people from diverse backgrounds with its unorthodox methods of rewards and benefits, and using its innovative methods of evaluation, Google recruits employees with the best “innovative potential”, as the company says. Knowledge-based industries are dependent on its inputs of technology and human capital, so they face some serious HR challenges. Here recruitment and retaining employees are crucial and a major challenge as employees demand a different type of challenges and work environment than other industries, and also fitting the perfect people according to their jobs is also a major challenge here. So, intensive training and development of employees is important. Because employees are highly skilled and knowledgeable, they enjoy a high bargaining power unlike many other industries. So maintaining them requires a lot effort from the HR departments of the companies to retain and motivate them to be loyal, as they know many...
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...Cloud Computing 1) Komputasi Awan (Cloud Computing) Komputasi awan (cloud computing) adalah gabungan pemanfaatan teknologi komputer ('komputasi') dan pengembangan berbasis Internet ('awan'). Awan (cloud) adalah metafora dari internet, sebagaimana awan yang sering digambarkan di diagram jaringan komputer. Komputasi awan adalah suatu konsep umum yang mencakup SaaS, Web 2.0, dan tren teknologi terbaru lain yang dikenal luas, dengan tema umum berupa ketergantungan terhadap Internet untuk memberikan kebutuhan komputasi pengguna. Sebagai contoh, Google Apps menyediakan aplikasi bisnis umum secara daring yang diakses melalui suatu penjelajah web dengan perangkat lunak dan data yang tersimpan di server. Teknologi komputer berbasis sistem Cloud ini merupakan sebuah teknologi yang menjadikan internet sebagai pusat server untuk mengelola data dan juga aplikasi pengguna. Teknologi ini mengizinkan para pengguna untuk menjalankan program tanpa instalasi dan mengizinkan pengguna untuk mengakses data pribadi mereka melalui komputer dengan akses internet. Komputasi awan saat ini merupakan trend teknologi terbaru, dan contoh bentuk pengembangan dari teknologi Cloud Computing ini adalah iCloud. 2) Manfaat Cloud Computing 1. Skalabilitas, yaitu dengan cloud computing kita bisa menambah kapasitas penyimpanan data kita tanpa harus membeli peralatan tambahan, misalnya hardisk dll. Kita cukup menambah kapasitas yang disediakan oleh penyedia layanan cloud computing. 2. Aksesibilitas...
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...Cloud Usage Risk Report November 2014 1 Executive summary The Adallom Cloud Risk Report is published annually, detailing actionable insights and information mined from the Adallom subscriber base. This specific report incorporates analysis of cloud application usage for over one million enterprise SaaS enabled users traversing four dominant SaaS platforms: Salesforce, Box, Google Apps, and Office 365 between October 2013 and October 2014. This report is the first of its kind to detail application usage patterns and risky behaviors for the top SaaS applications used by businesses. The key findings in this report reaffirm the need for a new approach to data governance, risk management, and security in the context of cloud adoption. Perimeter and endpoint security solutions provide minimal protection against new, emerging, and largely unknown risks. Therefore, enterprises need to proactively invest in new controls like Identity and Access Management (IAM) solutions and Cloud Access Security Brokers. Key findings include: • In the cloud zombies are real: 11% of all enterprise SaaS accounts are “zombies,” inactive assigned users that are at best eating up the cost of a license, and at worst increase the attack surface of the organization. • More admins, more problems: Every administrative account represents a real and present risk to the enterprise. In some SaaS applications Adallom recorded an average of 7 administrators out of every 100 users. •...
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... recognize that bringing a variety of backgrounds and perspectives to the table generates the best ideas and innovation. These diverse qualities enable, deliver and drive high performance at Accenture. Their approach to inclusion and diversity stems from a two-fold desire: * To live and work in one world, free from the constraints of geographical barriers or cultural perceptions, and * To seek innovative practices that help employees achieve work-life balance. Accenture, therefore, seeks to recruit, retain and advance women globally as they continue to focus on multi-culturalism and embedding flexibility into their culture and business operations worldwide. Accenture globally has women’s networking forums operating for years, run by and for their women employees largely as an empowerment forum. In India, our women’s networking platform is called "Vaahini," meaning "stream" or "flow." With their women employees we recently opened up Vaahini to the women in their wider community to enable them to benefit from the empowerment and enrichment that their own employees gain from being part of this powerful network. The Accenture Vaahini Network will be both an online and in-person network. Source: http://www.accenture.com/in-en/company/people/Pages/best-people.aspx CULTURE AT GOOGLE Google has come a long way since Sergey Brine and Larry Page networked a few computers together at Stanford. What started as a modest project is now a multibillion-dollar global...
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...company. A SWOT approach should not only result in the identification of a corporation distinction competencies - the particular capabilities and resources that a firm possesses and the superior way in which they are used – but also in the identification of opportunities that the firm is not currently able to take advantage of due to a lack of appropriate resources (Wheelen, Hunger, Hoffman, and Bamford, 2015). I chose to conduct my SWOT analysis on Google. STRENGHTS Perhaps the biggest strength of Google is that it is the undisputed leader in search engines, which means that it has a domineering and lion’s share of the internet searches worldwide. It has more than 68% of the market share for internet searches and the competitors do not even come close to anywhere that it does (Tower, 2014). Google has become a household brand in the world, just like McDonalds, Apple, and Facebook. Its ability to drive internet user traffic is legendary and this has helped it become one of the most powerful brands in the world. Indeed, Google averages more than 1.2 Billion hits a month in terms of the unique searches that users perform on the site. This gives it an unrivalled and unparalleled edge over its competitors in the market. Its revenue model wherein it garners humungous profits through partnerships with third party sites has held the company in good stead as far as its ability to mop up resources and increase both its top-line as well as bottom-line is concerned. This is another...
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...Google Self-Driving Car Pranaw Kumar 500639475 MB8103 Submitted to Dr. Dale Carl 2nd October 2014 Ryerson University Toronto, Ontario, 2014 Table of Contents Executive Summary 3 Introduction 4 Macro Environmental Analysis 5 PESTEL 5 Political 5 Economic 5 Social 5 Technological 6 Environmental 6 Legal 6 Summary 7 Micro Environmental Analysis 7 Porter’s Five Forces 7 Bargaining Power of supplier 7 Threat of substitutes 8 Bargaining power of customers 8 Threat of New entrants 8 Competitive rivalry 8 Summary 9 Conclusion 10 References 11 Executive Summary With continuous change in technology there is always continuous advancement in life style, and Google Self-drive car is going to be one of the biggest changes among them. This type of autonomous system always leaves long and prominent impact on the society and the environment. The whole world is moving towards more and more robotic systems where people just provide voice command or just a program and robotic system does the task automatically. This car can be a stepping stone towards such autonomous enhancement. There are many big players in auto industry who are trying to come into this futuristic field like BMW, Mercedes, Audi and many more, however Google’s self drive car stands apart in terms of completely autonomous car ‘no human interference’. This actually has some implication where human psychology interferes. Human by nature tries to keep control in their...
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...E-Commerce Marketing Plan | August 21 2011 | Internet marketing strategy for Tesla Tech | At Tesla Tech they offer a variety of computer related services. Services offered include standard computer repair, upgrades, custom gaming personal computers, accessories, and much more. Tesla Tech’s Marketing niche will be fairly pinpointed, set to cater to the older generation that needs and wants to learn how to use modern day computers and do not have the means to learn. This strategy will bring new business and keep customers returning to our website to learn about different applications and functions of the new computer that they purchased from Tesla Tech. This market is fairly untapped in the online and even onsite marketplace. Tesla Tech plans to offer this online service free of charge to customers that buy custom made or brand new desktop or laptop computers from our online e-commerce website. This will allow the company to generate many new customers within the age rages of 45+ who may be timid or reluctant to buy a new pc because of their perception that they do not have the necessary tools or knowledge to complete basic computer related tasks. Sales of new computer will increase since our entire strategy will thrive on the fact that consumers will know that they will be able to log-in to our video tutorial database and educate themselves on whatever subject they need help with. Our main demographic will be single or married woman age 45 and up. This demographic was...
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