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- [G] A customizable approach to administrative privileges
- [G] Security First: Google at the Cyber Security Strategies Summit
- [G] Google Data Center Efficiency Summit 2011
- [G] Blogger is back
- [G] New Books API for Developers
- [G] From Alaska: Old Harbor Books, the 250th indie bookseller of Google eBooks
| [G] A customizable approach to administrative privileges Posted: 16 May 2011 04:21 AM PDT Official Google Enterprise Blog: A customizable approach to administrative privilegesManaging Google Apps for an entire organization is not always a one-size-fits-all job. Google Apps Administrators often need to securely share management responsibilities with others. These users may need to have access to certain administrative privileges like user creation, password resets or managing groups, but not to all of them. To address theses needs, we're launching Delegated Admin to our Business and Edu customers. With this new feature, your primary administrators or "Super Admins" can now offer other users specific administration controls.Lukas Karlsson of the the Broad Institute summed it up, "I like the fact that I can create additional administrator accounts and grant them access to certain administrative functions without having to make them full-fledged administrators. Our organization is growing quite large and, as that happens, we want to grant more folks access to specific tabs in the control panel, so this is very useful." Joseph Dellano of Tempus Nova, Inc. believes, "this will be well-used by enterprises that have specific people in charge of of responsibilities like mailing list administration." Specifically, a Super Admin can create a help desk for your organization by granting other administrators the minimal access necessary to do their jobs. Consider an example: Collin is an IT Associate at your company who is responsible for helping employees who have lost their password or username. You can now give Collin the ability to access the "Organization & Users" tab in the Control Panel, so that he can manage user access to Google Apps. You can also further control which actions he has the right to perform. For example, you may give Collin the right to reset passwords, but not to create new user accounts.  With these customizable privileges, Delegated Administration is another way you can tailor Google Apps to your business needs. To get started today:
We look forward to continuing to make it easier to help Google Apps administrators share tasks across teams and Help Desks. Posted by Jaideep Mirchandani, Product Manager, Google Apps  URL: http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2011/05/customizable-approach-to-administrative.html       |
| [G] Security First: Google at the Cyber Security Strategies Summit Posted: 16 May 2011 04:21 AM PDT Official Google Enterprise Blog: Security First: Google at the Cyber Security Strategies SummitPosted by Adam Swidler, Sr. Manager, Google Enterprise TeamThis week the Google Enterprise team is excited to be participating in the Cyber Security Strategies Summit (CSSS) in Washington DC on May 10th-12th. At the summit later today, I'll be presenting a session on cloud security at scale and the data protections that are in place for our Google Apps customers. If you're not able to attend the conference, you can visit our Google Apps Trust site and find more information on the security and data protection measures in Google Apps. Many of them are highlighted in our security white paper and data center video tour. We take extreme measures protect our users data and we are constantly innovating to develop new features and capabilities in these areas.  URL: http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2011/05/security-first-google-at-cyber-security.html   |
| [G] Google Data Center Efficiency Summit 2011 Posted: 16 May 2011 04:21 AM PDT Official Google Enterprise Blog: Google Data Center Efficiency Summit 2011Posted by Joe Kava, Data Center Construction & Operations TeamBack in 2009, we hosted our first conference on data center efficiency at the Google campus in Mountain View, CA. Colleagues from the industry joined us in sharing best practices and laying out the path to improved efficiency in large-scale computing infrastructure. In the past two years we've continued to work hard at improving our own efficiency, and we've been impressed by the advances others in the industry have made as well. Leaders in the tech sector have managed to achieve and surpass what seemed like stretch goals at the time. Data center efficiency isn't just for the big guys. Improving the energy efficiency of your facility – large or small – reduces your organization's total environmental impact. It also makes financial sense for computing infrastructures at any scale, as the most effective efficiency best practices are actually quite straightforward. Whether you run a facility of a hundred kW or a multi-MW data center, there are simple, immediate steps you can take to deliver rapid environmental and economic returns. We're happy to announce that we're hosting a second data center efficiency conference, this time in Zurich, Switzerland, on May 24th. We'll be gathering industry leaders together again to share and discuss the latest energy efficiency best practices. The agenda includes:
Limited space is still available. Find out more and register to attend here.  URL: http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2011/05/google-data-center-efficiency-summit.html   |
| Posted: 15 May 2011 04:30 PM PDT Blogger Buzz: Blogger is backUpdate (5/14 5:37 PM PST): We're making progress restoring comments, some blogs with a lot of content are taking a little more time. Thanks for bearing with us. Update (5/13 7:46PM PST): Nearly all posts since Wednesday are restored, now bringing back comments from last couple days. We expect the comments to be back this weekend or sooner. What a frustrating day. We're very sorry that you've been unable to publish to Blogger for the past 20.5 hours. We're nearly back to normal — you can publish again, and in the coming hours posts and comments that were temporarily removed should be restored. Thank you for your patience while we fix this situation. We use Blogger for our own blogs, so we've also felt your pain. Here's what happened: during scheduled maintenance work Wednesday night, we experienced some data corruption that impacted Blogger's behavior. Since then, bloggers and readers may have experienced a variety of anomalies including intermittent outages, disappearing posts, and arriving at unintended blogs or error pages. A small subset of Blogger users (we estimate 0.16%) may have encountered additional problems specific to their accounts. Yesterday we returned Blogger to a pre-maintenance state and placed the service in read-only mode while we worked on restoring all content: that's why you haven't been able to publish. We rolled back to a version of Blogger as of Wednesday May 11th, so your posts since then were temporarily removed. Those are the posts that we're in the progress of restoring. Again, we are very sorry for the impact to our authors and readers. We try hard to ensure Blogger is always available for you to share your thoughts and opinions with the world, and we'll do our best to prevent this from happening again. Posted by Eddie Kessler, Tech Lead/Manager, Blogger  URL: http://buzz.blogger.com/2011/05/blogger-is-back.html   |
| [G] New Books API for Developers Posted: 15 May 2011 07:26 AM PDT Inside Google Books: New Books API for DevelopersPosted by Kevin Landry, Google Books API TeamToday, we are releasing a new Google Books API in Code Labs. The new Books API will help you write applications to query for the more than 15 million books that are searchable on books.google.com including book metadata, pricing and more. This API replaces the Google Book Search Data and Javascript APIs. The previous GData API and Javascript API will still be available, but ongoing development work will be focused on the new Google Books API so we encourage you to make the transition to take advantage of new features including:
 URL: http://booksearch.blogspot.com/2011/05/new-books-api-for-developers.html   |
| [G] From Alaska: Old Harbor Books, the 250th indie bookseller of Google eBooks Posted: 15 May 2011 07:26 AM PDT Inside Google Books: From Alaska: Old Harbor Books, the 250th indie bookseller of Google eBooksFrom time to time we invite guests to post about topics of interest and we're pleased to have Don Muller join us from Old Harbor Books. Don is a co-founder of Old Harbor Books, an independent bookstore where he has worked for 35 years in Sitka, Alaska. Through our partnership with the American Booksellers Association and its IndieCommerce e-commerce platform for booksellers, Old Harbor Books is now able to sell Google eBooks from its website. In this post, Don talks about the significance of this milestone to his bookstore and—most importantly—his customers. - Ed. Based in Sitka, Alaska, Old Harbor Books was opened 35 years ago last week by a group of devoted book lovers including myself. Old Harbor is an independent bookstore specializing in Alaskana, Native American and Alaska Native, children's, ecology, travel, natural history, philosophy and, of course, nautical books. And starting today, we also sell Google eBooks on our website. In fact, we're the 250th independent bookseller to start selling Google eBooks since the service launched last December. In a town with a population of less than 9,000, we're proud to provide personal service to the readers and explorers who visit our store. We wanted to give our customers a way to buy books from us in whatever format they want—including ebooks. So whether you want to read books on your computer, tablet, smartphone or e-reader, you can now choose from hundreds of thousands of Google eBooks titles we offer. Some of my current favorites are are Freedom by Jonathan Franzen, A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan and Confession of a Buddhist Atheist by Stephen Batchelor. Searching by title, subject or author in our online ebookstore, you can find just about anything you're looking for—and you can buy from us no matter where in the U.S. you are.  Old Harbor Books customer and manager with me in the middle We're deeply grateful to Google eBooks and the American Booksellers Association for making this possible by connecting our IndieCommerce-powered website to the Google eBooks platform that lets us focus on merchandising books, rather than building the technology on our own. Posted by Don Muller, co-founder, Old Harbor Books  URL: http://booksearch.blogspot.com/2011/05/from-alaska-old-harbor-books-250th.html   |
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