January 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. If you enjoy what you read here, please consider forwarding it to spread the word.
Storage & Collaboration
Information Age, Ben Rossi — Why the Future of Storage is Software Defined details how data management & traditional storage systems are outdated & lays out how software is transforming storage by enabling petabyte & exabyte scale
Business Insider Enterprise, Julie Bort — Netflix, Juniper, and Intuit explain how Amazon is eating the $3.5 trillion IT industry. Case studies on how Intuit, Netflix & Juniper are moving to the cloud
Wall Street Journal, Steve Rosenbush — Equinix CIO Brian Lillie Says Integration Is Now the Defining Principle of IT Lillie discusses how cloud forces people to rethink their basic assumptions about corporate IT
Redmond Magazine, Scott Bekker — 2016 IT Marching Orders Brian LaMacchia, director of security and cryptography for Microsoft Research makes 3 predictions around cryptographic technology, corralling cloud apps & dev ops.
InfoWorld, David Linthicum, Picking a public cloud? Think beyond AWS, Google, and Microsoft. He frames the primary considerations in evaluating 2,000+ application cloud landscape
Security
Linkedin, Doug Meier Information Security Director, Pandora — 2015 Wrapped discusses his 2015 takeaways including, “Never trust, always verify,” “Individualization of IT,” application level security and much more
Techcrunch, Mahendra Ramsinghani — Coackroaches versus Unicorns: The Golden Age of Cybersecurity Startups. Highlights the state security technology, investment budget & challenges.
Enterprise Strategy Group, — 2016 Cybersecurity Radar Screen. Instead of predictions ESG lists what’s on their radar for 2016: The need for Unifying Security Controls, Containers and Consolidation
CircleID, Konstantinos Komaitis — Trust and Collaboration — Key Features for the Internet’s Future. The key elements that occupy or should occupy the attention of policy makers, technologists and users, two were especially highlighted: trust and collaboration.
Industry Updates
Fortune, Barb Darrow — Google’s Secret Plan to Catch Up to Amazon and Microsoft in Cloud Google has 70 data caching stations around the world that caches data closer to their likely audiences to speed their delivery.
Platoformnomics, Charles Fitzgerald — A Dispatch from Cloud City — State of the Union 2016. the former Microsoft GM of Platform says Cloud has moved past critical inflection points and he details the state AWS, MSFT, GOOG, Dell, Docker, Devops, Git, Open stack and more
Skype Blog, The Skype Team — Skype integration for Slack now available for preview
Cloud Computing Intelligence, Nigel Moulton — 2016 Year of the Hyperconverged.Nigel Moulton puts the case for 2016 being a the year converged and hyper-converged infrastructure becomes mainstream
Digital Journal, James Walker — Cisco finds most companies now use over 1,000 cloud services Cisco today announced a new tool, Cisco Cloud Consumption as a Service
