February Tip of the Clouds Biweekly ii
Tip of the Clouds a hand-curated newsletter compiled bi-weekly to bring you news from the enterprise IT ecosystem focusing on Storage, collaboration, security and industry insights. If you enjoy what you read here, please consider forwarding it to spread the word.
Storage & Collaboration
Economist, The Collaboration Curse Helping people to collaborate is a wonderful thing. Giving them the time to think is even better.
Wall Street Journal, JP Morgan Lays out its Technology Plans — Largest bank shares it’s strategy on it’s $9.4 billion annual technology budget including location strategy, reducing legacy applications and consistency
Cloud Computing Intelligence, Marcus — The Cloud is driving the transformation of traditional customer engagement According to the latest research issued on the UK Cloud landscape, 86% reported a number of intangible benefits with their migration to the Cloud, with over 60% seeing improvements to their customer and employee propositions
InfoWorld, Serdar Yegulalp — ”Developers: APIs are crucial to business, but tough to get right” API ‘s offer a crucial audience are difficult to get right because of unintegrated tooling, security issues, and the difficulty of iterating and resolving problems quickly.
Computing, Mark Van der Linden — Growing your business: the power of the network
Security
Wall Street Journal, Barack Obama — Protecting U.S. Innovation From Cyberthreats President Obama authors an op-ed on one of the most urgent dangers to America’s economic and national security
Wall Street Journal, Paresh Dave — CIOs Stand With Apple The standoff between Apple and the FBI may divide the general public, but chief information officers and other IT leaders side squarely with Apple, according to exclusive research from CIO Journal. Almost 60% of 706 CIOs and other readers polled say Apple CEO Tim Cook should refuse to provide the government with software to unlock an iPhone
Softpedia, Catalin Cimpanu — “Over 1,600 Users Fall Victim to Zika Virus Spam Campaign”
Computing, Graeme Burton — “Shadow IT? Blame the IT department for lack of support for new ways of working” Shadow IT is the new way of doing IT. It’s the new way of provisioning fast, lightweight, agile solutions for people to collaborate and work
Industry Updates
CMS Wire, Adam Levithan — Reading into Microsoft’s Roadmap
CMS Wire, David Roe — Microsoft Preps For SharePoint 2016 Microsoft announced improvements in auditing, reporting and storage in SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business
Wired, Cade Metz — Spotify moves itself onto Google’s Cloud
TechCrunch, Katie Roof — ”Box’s Aaron Levie Defends Apple Amid FBI Controversy”
