Google Revamps Workspace against Microsoft Teams
Google has revamped its Workspace productivity suite with slew of updates, including new features for free users, a paid plan for entrepreneurs and fresh capabilities for its Meet video-conferencing system in an effort to better compete with Microsoft Teams.
One of the moves, dubbed Workspace for Everyone, will extend the collaboration tools that corporate users receive to non-paying consumers. Google will also offer a tier called Workspace Individual designed for entrepreneurs, which extends premium features of the software to small businesses, and it has upgraded Meet for a hybrid work future, in which some employees attend meetings in the office and others from home.
Google has long sought ways to diversify its revenue, 80% of which came from advertising in 2020. The lion’s share of sales is generated by its popular online services, including search, Maps and YouTube. The company is trying to translate its popularity among free Workspace users into more subscription revenue from small businesses and large enterprises.
Google will let everyone use Chat, its alternative to Teams and Slack, which had been available only for paying customers. While the app is currently subdivided into ‘Rooms’ where individuals message one another, they will be replaced by ‘Spaces.’ Spaces will become a communications hub, where groups of users can email, instant message, begin a Meet call and collaborate on documents and spreadsheets.
Quick Heal’s Seqrite Launches Cloud-based Centralized Cybersecurity Platform
Seqrite, the enterprise cybersecurity products and solutions arm of Quick Heal, has introduced ‘Seqrite Hawkk,’ a premium suite of next-generation cybersecurity solutions aimed at empowering enterprises to secure their digital transformation journey.
In the first phase, Seqrite Hawkk will offer – ‘Seqrite HawkkEye’ – a cloud-based centralized security management platform that will empower enterprises to manage multiple security products from a single console. Seqrite will continue to invest and add more products under the Hawkk umbrella that will also mark the brand’s foray into endpoint detection and response (EDR), zero trust, data privacy and cloud-based network security products.
‘Seqrite Hawkk’ has been designed to empower CISOs and IT leaders to get comprehensive visibility into their organization’s security posture, generate actionable insights, ensure compliance and boost their organization’s defense against the next wave of cyber-attacks across endpoints and mobile devices, enterprise data infrastructure, and enterprise applications. Powered by AI, Cloud and Patented technologies, the new range of solutions are easy to use, lightweight and can be deployed within minutes.
Intel Unveils Infrastructure Processing Unit to Improve Datacenter Efficiency, Manageability
Intel has unveiled its vision for the infrastructure processing unit (IPU), a programmable networking device designed to enable cloud and communication service providers to reduce overhead and free up performance for central processing units (CPUs). With an IPU, customers will better utilize resources with a secure, programmable, stable solution that enables them to balance processing and storage.
The IPU is a programmable network device that intelligently manages system-level infrastructure resources by securely accelerating those functions in a data center. It allows cloud operators to shift to a fully virtualized storage and network architecture while maintaining high performance and predictability, as well as a high degree of control.
The IPU has dedicated functionality to accelerate modern applications that are built using a microservice-based architecture in the data center. Research from Google and Facebook has shown 22 percent to 80 percent of CPU cycles can be consumed by microservices communication overhead. With the IPU, a cloud provider can securely manage infrastructure functions while enabling its customer to entirely control the functions of the CPU and system memory.
