{"id":50130,"date":"2017-11-02T05:25:43","date_gmt":"2017-11-02T05:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=50130"},"modified":"2017-11-02T05:27:23","modified_gmt":"2017-11-02T05:27:23","slug":"google-cloud-debuts-hangouts-hardware-kit-for-enterprise-customers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/technology\/google-cloud-debuts-hangouts-hardware-kit-for-enterprise-customers.html","title":{"rendered":"Google Cloud debuts Hangouts hardware kit for enterprise customers"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Google Cloud debuts Hangouts hardware kit for enterprise customers<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">Google Cloud debuts Hangouts hardware kit for enterprise customers:- G Suite Enterprise customers may be interested in this new hardware offering.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">With a large number of teams relying on both in-house and remote workers to keep businesses running, as well as the ever-growing global economic landscape, more and more businesses are investing in enterprise-level solutions to keep up a healthy level of communication.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">One such offering is the recent debut of Hangouts Meet, an evolution of Google Hangouts specifically geared towards businesses. Google also recently launched Jamboard, a collaborative brainstorming tool that can be used within meetings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Hangouts Meet hardware<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">Launched yesterday (31 October), the Hangouts Meet hardware is a kit that can ostensibly help businesses take advantage of video-meeting benefits.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">The kit consists of four components: a touchscreen controller, speaker mic, 4K sensor Ultra HD camera and ASUS Chromebox.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">The new controller can allow people to join scheduled events in Google Calendar or view meeting details with a tap, and it can also pin or mute team members and control the camera. Using a HDMI cable, you can present using the remote with a laptop and can dial participants in to meetings. If you\u2019re already a G Suite Enterprise edition customer, your meetings can be recorded directly to Google Drive.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">Up to five of the speaker mics can be daisy-chained together with a single wire, and the camera is built with machine-learning technology to intelligently detect participants, automatically cropping and zooming to frame them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">The Chromebox can automatically push updates to other components in the hardware kit, and remote device monitoring and management is a positive for IT managers who want to stay in control of remote meetings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Software updates<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">As well as the new hardware, updates include the ability to record meetings to Drive and let your team members catch up on what they missed; the option to host meetings with up to 50 participants; and global dial-in that will automatically update your listing to another phone number if you have to travel for work.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">The new offerings from Google are an example of the continued push towards cloud or hybrid-cloud based products and services that companies are increasingly looking at as the future for their business practices.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 8pt\">Source:-\u00a0http:\/\/gearsofbiz.com\/google-cloud-debuts-hangouts-hardware-kit-for-enterprise-customers\/167652<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/technology\/google-cloud-debuts-hangouts-hardware-kit-for-enterprise-customers.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Cloud debuts Hangouts hardware kit for enterprise customers Google Cloud debuts Hangouts hardware kit for enterprise customers:- G Suite Enterprise customers may be interested in this new hardware offering. 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