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Google Cloud SQL takes on Amazon Aurora Google’s first attempt at MySQL as a service, Cloud SQL, launched in 2011, was somewhat of a disappointment from the standpoint of performance and scalability. Cloud SQL Second Generation, which was released on Aug. 16 of this year, has no such problems. In fact, it outperforms Amazon Aurora for some load profiles. In essence, Cloud SQL Second Generation is an implementation of MySQL 5.7 on top of Google’s Compute Engine and Persistent Disk. According to Google, Cloud SQL Second Generation runs seven times faster and has 20 times more storage capacity than its predecessor -- with lower costs, higher scalability, automated backups that can restore your database from any point in time, and 99.95 percent availability, anywhere in the world. Cloud SQL features Cloud SQL Second Generation a fully managed database service, taking the knob-twiddling out of MySQL configuration. As you can see in the figure below, when you configure ...

Google says its databases are enterprise ready The company announces GA for Cloud SQL, Cloud Datastore and Cloud Bigtable Google is continuing its campaign to entice enterprises to its public cloud platform by rolling out database services stable enough to serve businesses' production workloads.   To that end, the company announced the general availability of three database-focused products: the second generation of Cloud SQL, its managed database service; Cloud Datastore, its NoSQL document database; and Cloud Bigtable, its NoSQL database service that powers products like Gmail. Each of those products has a service level agreement associated with it, guaranteeing a certain amount of availability.  ...

How to get Office 365 document sharing to actually work You know how in the movies the monster lopes along yet always somehow catches the screaming girl who's running away from it? That's been the story of Office 365, Microsoft Office, and OneDrive, the three pillars of Microsoft's attempt to move its productivity suite into a collaboration tool, both across users and across devices. But now, after years of progress and piecemeal rollouts, Microsoft has finally pulled together the pieces into a cohesive package and delivered on the original collaboration promise. Well, mostly -- the tools still have gaps, but the main issue is deadly practical: It's not obvious how to use them together, so many users can't capitalize on the collaboration promise, though they now have the tools to do it. Office 365 Document Sharing Guide How to get Office 365 document sharing to actually work How to get and set up all the Office 365 c...

8 awesome (and sometimes free) conference call services   Conference call services want your business — even those that offer free plans — and their feature sets are getting better all the time.   Conference calls are a big part of work life today — sometimes too big. Because we spend so much time in meetings, we want conference-calling systems that that launch quickly and work flawlessly so we can get the information we need and move on to other pressing matters. The capability to browse a post-meeting transcript or zoom through an audio recording would be big bonuses, especially for fastidious note-takers who don't always catch everything in real time. The good news is that the leading conference call services are full of features that take the sting out of group calls and online meetings. Standard f...

How to Search by Date in Gmail   If you're looking for an email or chat from a certain date in your Gmail archives, follow this simple search technique. If that's not enough, we've thrown in a few more advanced search terms to help you out.     1 Open Gmail search.   On a computer browser, the search bar is visible at the top of the screen from any Gmail page. On a mobile device, you may need to touch a magnifying glass icon to open the search bar.       2 Search for emails after a certain date.   To search for emails after a certain date, type   after:YYYY/MM/DD   into the search bar, replacing those letters with an actual date. For example, write   after:2015/03/29   to search for emails written after March 29th, 2015. You can use the word   newer   instead of "after."     3 Search before a certain date.   You can probably guess this already, but the search "before:YYY...