Tip of The Clouds August
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
Network World, Ben Kepes — “New Gartner Magic Quadrant shakes up the file sharing world” Magic Quadrant Leaders include Box, Dropbox, Egnyte & Sharefile. Others dropped from leaders and magic quadrant
CIO, Andy Patrizio — “Think older workers struggle with technology? Think again” Conventional thinking assumes that older workers have trouble adapting to new technologies. Research by Dropbox & Ipsos Mori revealed that older workers are less likely than their younger colleagues to find using technology in the workplace stressful.
TechTarget, Terri McClure — ”Understand enterprise file sync-and-share deployment models” Playbook for evaluating EFSS vendors
Security
Channelnomics, DH Kass — “Enterprises still not safeguarding data on mobile apps, devices — research” Research published by MobileIron on device and data protection including 58% of U.S. companies have devices out of compliance, 27% of businesses are operating with out-of-date security policies and more details
Network World, Tom Henderson — “CASB delivers must-have protection for your SaaS apps” Comparison of Netskope, Bitglass & CipherCloud
CSO Online, Maria Korolov — “New Hipaa Guidance Addresses Ransomware” The US DHS released new guidance for ransomware in healthcare organizations which includes backups, education and rights management
Computer World, John Ribeiro — “Banner Health alerts 3.7M potential victims of hack of its computers” Cyberattackers may have gained access to computers that process payment card data for patients, health plan members, healthcare providers at food and beverage outlets that include payment card and health plan data
ITProPortal, Sam Pudwell — “Q&A: Where businesses are going wrong with cloud security” Q&A with Patrick Heim, former CISO at Salesforce, Kaiser and McKesson on Data protection and security lessons learned from 2015, public perception of data privacy and what companies are still doing wrong in the cloud
Industry
Box, Citrix, Dropbox, and Egnyte represent the leaders’ section in the latest Gartner enterprise file sync and share (EFSS) Magic Quadrant
ITWorld, Blair Hanley Frank — “Dropbox Levels up its features for administrators”
VentureBeat, Ken Yeung — “Hootsuite adds support for Dropbox, Google Drive, Box, and Microsoft OneDrive”
TechRadar, Darren Allan — ”Google Apps for Work just became easier to use”
TechCrunch, Devin Coldeway — “Dropbox’s Lepton lossless image compression really uses a ‘middle-out’ algorithm”
Channelbuzz, Mark Cox — “BitTitan, Dropbox see enormous opportunities in new go-to-market alliance”
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