One of the most frequently common questions we receive are concerns about Chrome OS printing. My answer is although Google Cloud Printing is easy to use and rather handy, it isn’t perfect.

Normally, the configuration of your printing network to enable Chrome OS printing would involve a lot of work, but Google Cloud Print allows you to do it within just a few minutes.

Probably the biggest benefit of Google Cloud printing is that it simplifies enterprise printing structures and also the complex coordination of hardware across a wide network of computers.

Serverless computing is now trending in the world of software architecture.

Google, Amazon, and Microsoft, the world’s leading cloud providers, have all invested a large chunk of their resources in developing state-of-the-art Serverless computing technology.

But what is serverless computing?

What is the makeup of serverless computing, and what has lead to its rapid uptake and adoption among enterprises across the world? This blog will explore these issues and more!

As more companies experience security breaches, the wave of compromised data is on the rise. According to IBM’s “Cost of a Data Breach Report 2021”, remote work during COVID-19 increased data breach costs in the United States by $137,000.

Organizations need a better way to ensure that all access requests are continuously being monitored and controlled as the threats and user attributes are changing consistently. Organizations are adopting a newer Zero-trust model as a part of their business security strategy to add an extra layer of security.

Printing and Sustainability – Mutually Exclusive?

These days you’d be hard-pressed not to find someone in the upper tiers of management not concerned with sustainability. Either from an ethical point of view, as in it’s the right thing to do or a strictly financial – reducing waste is good for the bottom line.

You may not have thought about it, but printing can consume a lot of resources – financial and natural. With a quick Google search, the consensus seems to be that the average employee prints about 10K pages per year, costing somewhere around $700 and using up a little over three per year! In addition, for each print server you have, the cost is somewhere around $4000 per year to maintain that and on average, could consume 7500 kWh per year.

When it comes to choosing between cloud-based printing services and cloud-hosted printing services, many businesses have a hard time distinguishing the differences between them.  

By properly understanding how each solution works and what benefits they provide can help you make the right decision that is based on your business needs. Let’s first start with the definition of cloud-based and cloud-hosted services as a whole.