March Tip of the Clouds Biweekly i
Collaboration & Storage
Andreessen Horowitz blog, Martin Casado — Infrastructure… is everything Former CEO of Nicira discusses how some of the most exciting technology innovations are now happening at the infrastructure level in this podcast
Medium, Samuel Hulick — Slack I’m Breaking Up with You The author discusses how the popular messaging service splits his attention, real time versus asynchronous and “frankenmeetings”
Forbes, Alex Konrad — Google And Intuit CIOs: ‘To Engage IT Talent, Move Them Closer To Your Product’ The author discusses collaboration between IT and Product
Andreessen Horowitz blog, Anu Hariharan — All about Network Effects A series of slides to help you understand network effects and it’s impact
Security
ESG, Daniel Conde — RSA Recap, Part One
Re/code, Walt Mossberg — “Mossberg: The Cloud Loophole” Commentary on the “GovtOS” regarding Apple’s encryption and privacy stance
The New York Times, Nick Wingfield and Mike Isaac — ”Apple Gets Tech Industry Backing in iPhone Dispute, Despite Misgivings”
CMSWire, Scott M. Fulton III — “When Worlds Collide: Digital Identities vs. Privacy Rights #RSAC” The author talks about the convergence of personal identity and business identity
Techcrunch, Mahendra Ramsinghani — How the tiny startup Phantom Cyber scored big at RSA Patrick Heim, Head of Trust at Dropbox was one of the judges at RSA Sandbox 2016 and he points out the three challenges that make security automation appealing leading to Phantom’s
Industry
Dropbox Blog, Thomas Hansen — Forrester names Dropbox a leader in enterprise file sync and share
Google joins Open Compute Project to drive standards in IT infrastructure
Twitter, Highlights from #ForbesCIOSummit
Forbes, Miguel Helft — “Amid Mounting Questions, Dropbox Tops 500 Million Users And Says Growth Continues”
Bloomberg, Dina Bass — “Box Jumps After Sales Forecast Tops Analysts’ Estimates”