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I’m Vivian Leung and I work at Google.Today we’re here to talk about Google Apps, which, if you’re not familiar withit, is our online suite1 of communication and collaboration2 tools. I think here atGoogle we have been looking at ways people work with each other, communicatewith each other. We’ve found that most of the time we’re pretty attached to ourown computers or hard drives, and being an Internet company we figured theremust be a better way.
And one of these ways is what we called Cloud
Computing3. I know it sounds, itsounds a little big geeky, but it’s really not that complicated. Basically allof your files and all of your information, even all of those programs that youuse are all stored, you know, online or in the cloud as we call it. That meansyou’re not attached to any single computer or hard drive. All you have to do isbe connect to the Internet and you can access these programs and files from anywherein the world.
Let’s use an example. So, I’m in New York and my coworker is in San Franciscoand we need to work on a presentation together. In the old way we would’vecreated a presentation, emailed as an
attachment4 and sent it back and
forth5,back and forth until we were done. But with Google Docs for example, I cancreate a presentation online, share it with my colleague and we can actuallyboth edit it and make changes at the same time. And we’re working on the sameactual doc so there is no version control and there is no
attachments6. There isonly one copy of any file that you work on. That means you can be accessingyour information and working with other people from any computer.
In fact you can actually connect to it from any devices connected to theInternet. So smart phones, netbooks, laptops you name it, and there is nothingto download or install. You just get online and off you go.
I hope this video has been helpful. If you have any ideas on how we can makeApps better, please let us know at this link.
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