Tip of the Clouds Bi-Weekly Inaugural Edition

Published in

Tip of the Clouds

3 min readJan 5, 2016

Tip of the Clouds a hand-curated newsletter compiled bi-weekly to bring you news from the enterprise IT ecosystem focusing on collaboration, security and industry insights. If you enjoy what you read here, please consider forwarding it to spread the word.

Collaboration

CMS Wire, By Jamie Hunt — Don’t Let Silos Destroy the Customer Experience. How to develop a digital and platform strategy, set up a governance model for direction and collaboration across business units.

CMS Wire, Angela Ashenden — Grab the Collaboration Bull by the Horns. The promises of collaboration entices many organizations, but there are some really common mistakes that organizations make and some key tricks to avoiding this risk.

Medium, Rob Lai — The Enterprise Chasm. There is an organizational, operational and financial delta between the idea and the execution of an integrated application ecosystem. The future of the enterprise will be transformed by application software networks as they break down those silos

Linkedin, Thomas Hansen 2016 Cloud Predictions. Dropbox SVP & former Microsoft Worldwide VP of Sales makes predictions about the cloud of clouds and with it, the increased opportunities and complexities to master.

Tech Crunch, Aaron Levie — Enterprise IT’s Trillion Dollar Opportunity Companies are saddled with legacy cultures, business processes, and technology is stuck in the past. How are enterprises to think about the next billion information workers and how Every Job is Software-enabled?

Security

CSO, Anthony Caruana — ”They will get in — Detect and Respond”. Almost every month, some large company sees tens of millions of confidential records exfiltrated from their databases. How do you understand, detect and respond to the invisible?

TechCrunch, Natasha Lomas — “EFF’s 2015 Data Privacy Report Lauds Apple, Dropbox, Slams Verizon.” Digital rights organization the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has published its fifth annual Who has your back? report into online service providers’ transparency and privacy practices when it comes to government requests for accessing user data.

Forbes, Ajay Arora, Vera CEO — Why 71B wasn’t enough to fix enterprise security. Data security has emerged as one of the top technology/business stories of the year. With the purchase and deployment of $71 Billion in security solutions. Why is there a growing list of companies, people and even nations suffering the loss of private, confidential and ultimately valuable information?

Business Cloud News, Chanel Chambers — “Preparing for ‘Bring Your Own Cloud.’” In 2015, experts expect to see more sync and sharing platforms like Google Drive, SharePoint and Dropbox offer unlimited storage to users at no cost. Whether they are sanctioned by IT or not, there is a ‘Bring Your Own Cloud’ free-for-alls. How can IT leaders prepare for this trend in enterprise?

CSO Online, David Geer — Q&A feature with Patrick Heim. Patrick Heim, Heim has 20+ years in the information security field & leads Trust & Security at Dropbox. He was Formerly Chief Trust Officer at Salesforce and has served as CISO at Kaiser Permanente and McKesson Corporation. Heim discusses security and privacy in the arena of consumerized cloud-based tools like those that employees select for business use.