April Tip of The Clouds Biweekly
This is Tip of the Clouds, a publication focused on cloud storage & communication between systems and people. It will serve as a resource for enterprise IT professionals.
Storage & Collaboration
CMS Wire, Alister Webb — Collaboration Is Not an Outcome Why do so many collaboration initiatives fail to meet expectations? One of the most common mistakes strategists make is to assume that collaboration is an outcome; An end state.
Linkedin, Jesse Maddex — The What, When, How, and Why of Program Models and Business Process Analysis When considering software and new workflows, program models are foundational to leveraging data and information to understand impact. The author provides a framework to think about transforming Business Processes
Medium, Rob Lai — Composability in the IT Stack. From historical infrastructure debt through an era of software integrating commoditized hardware, the primary challenges have moved past base compute, storage and networking needs to the secondary efforts: data management, retrieval, tagging, compliance, analysis and others
The Next Web, Don Basile — “5 huge trends in big data and storage” From emotional robots to driverless cars and hybrid / public clouds, Don shares 5 mega trends
CMS Wire, Emily Colvitz — What Makes a Good Metadata Schema? The author discusses effective metadata schema design and implementation and how it can mean the difference between adoption or rejection of digital systems housing & accessing important assets for an organization
Security
CIO Dive, Justine Brown — ”The risks and rewards of shadow IT” It’s important for CIOs to focus on the technologies employees need to be productive, as well as understanding what technologies IT and security teams can deploy that give them the visibility into where data lives, when and where it moves, and who may have moved it — all while having the confidence that their data is continuously protected and recoverable in real-time
Google Cloud Platform Blog, Joe Kava, VP, Data Center Operations — Google shares data center security and design best practices Joe Kava, VP of data center operations and Niels Provos, distinguished engineer for security and privacy share details on how the company designs, builds, operates and secures its data centers globally
The New York Times, Eric Lichtbau — ”In Apple Debate on Digital Privacy and the iPhone, Questions Still Remain” Technology firms could claim some measure of victory because Apple was able to hold to its position without giving in to the government
The Inquirer, Dave Neal — Nasty new ransomware threat wins FBI attention A new breed of malware concerned the FBI enough to ask for assistance from the security industry
Industry
Computer Weekly, Warwick Ashford - Dropbox gears up for new EU data protection rules
TechTarget, Esther Shein — “Dropbox partner ecosystem helps with security, shadow IT”
TechCrunch, Ron Miller — ”Okta expands partnership with Box to include enterprise mobility management”
InfoWorld, Matt Asay — “Google’s biggest cloud challenge? Serving enterprises”
Thurrott, Brad Sams — “First Look: Microsoft’s New OneDrive UWP App”
CIO, Matt Kapko — Box CIO says IT needs to loosen its grip CIOs can change the way companies operate, but to do so IT needs to shift from the role of build-and-manage to orchestrate-and-assemble. When you look at most IT budgets, unfortunately over the years it’s been built up to the point where a significant portion of that budget is tied up with non-controllable expense, so IT just becomes the checkbook for writing out checks to those non-discretionary, non-controllable costs
Adobe Blog, Jon Perera, VP of Product — Dropbox Integration Now Available for Acrobat Reader on Android Millions of people have connected Acrobat Reader mobile to their Dropbox account, and over one million PDF files stored in Dropbox are being opened in Acrobat Reader mobile each month
CMS Wire, David Roe — Office 365 Groups Gets Connectors, But Slack It Ain’t
