July Tip of The Clouds Biweekly
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
Storage & Collaboration
CMSWire, Virginia Backaitis — “EMC’s Hidden Gem — and Why No One Is Talking About It” While some may argue that indexing, protecting and migrating data in content management, secondary databases or flat files to lower-cost storage for policy-based retention isn’t very compelling, here’s what is: mining insights from that data
Medium, Rob Lai — “How to Leverage Network Effects in Enterprise Collaboration” Collaboration is the central truth behind civilization’s success. To capture the network effects of collaboration, companies have to shift the mindsent to platform thinking reducing friction and providing shared space.
GeekWire, Dan Richman — ”Azure rising: Microsoft will be largest Infrastructure as a Service vendor by 2019, says new Morgan Stanley survey” Survey of 100 CIOs shows growth in Public Cloud PaaS, IaaS
CMSWire, David Roe — “You Won’t Have PDFs to Kick Around Anymore” Adobe, Nuance and Foxit have all upgraded their PDF offerings to make them easier, safer and more secure
ITProPortal, Andrew Filev — “Why cloud collaboration is becoming a serious competitor to email” Cloud technology has become normalized to the extent that people who resist its deployment of traditional enterprise collaboration tools are viewed as old-fashioned. Consider the “5 second test,” deployment and maintenance costs before refreshing legacy solutions
Security
eWeek, Chris Preimesberger — “How Modern Information-Rights Management Improves Security, Compliance” There’s No ‘One Tool” for collaboration and security shouldn’t hinder it. Permissions should be more dynamic and adoption is the key to success. Security must be invisible for users inside and outside the organization.
ZDNet, Aimee Chanthadavong — ”Data over device: Why encrypting data will help secure the mobile enterprise” Accenture’s MD of Asia Pacific Security Practice, told ZDNet that while enterprises are rightly concerned about staying in control with a mixture of company-owned devices and BYOD within the network, there’s a greater risk if users are not given a choice, as they are then likely take shortcuts
CIO Dive, Randy Lilleston — “Symantec, Norton security products have ‘critical vulnerabilities,’ Homeland Security says” Popular security suites from Symantec and Norton “contain critical vulnerabilities,” the Department of Homeland Security said Tuesday
Industry
CloudPro, Clare Hopping — ”The new features offer Syncplicity’s users Microsoft’s Office suite of apps”
V3, Daniel Robinson — ”Amazon rounds out AWS cloud storage offerings with Elastic File System”
PCWorld, Blair Hanley Frank — ”Box Shuttle makes it easier to fitch on-prem file storage”
The Verge, Nick Statt — “Dropbox adds new sharing features and a nifty document scanner”
