Tip of The Clouds June ii
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
Medium, Stowe Boyd — Documents are the new Email — IT ought to think of file sync-and-share apps as fixing a flaw in our operating systems, notably Mac OS X and Windows. They are still configured as if there is no Internet, users only use a single device and businesses operate in a single player environment
Gigaom, Stowe Boyd — ‘Work Processing’ and the decline of the (Wordish) Document The big shift underlying these work processing’ tools is creation, management, and sharing of these assemblages of information for increasingly digital businesses, is real time access and leveraged in digital-first use cases.
CloudPro, Clare Hopping — Collaboration makes flexible workers happier Research findings from a survey of over 4,000 information workers regarding the relationship between flexibility at work, collaboration tools, creativity, and happiness.
Security
Diginomica, Stuart Lauchlan — Brexit’s not the only EU issue — 75% of cloud apps don’t meet new data protection requirements The new General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) come into force on 4 May 2018 and will have serious implications for both EU and non-EU companies
Threatpost, Michael Mimoso — Password Autocorrect Without Compromising Security Team of academics from Cornell University, MIT and a Dropbox security engineer say that the degradation of security from the introduction of such an authentication mechanism is negligible
CSO, David Braue — Over half of CISOs now think cloud is as secure as on-premises apps Fully 35 percent of the 2200 CISOs surveyed in the latest Bitglass Cloud Security Report said they believe cloud apps had matched on-premises applications in security terms, while 17 percent said cloud apps were more secure than on-premises apps
CMSWire, Robert Cruz– Future-Proof Your Data Governance for Changing Privacy Laws Efficient data-governance strategies will enable organizations to maintain privacy compliance even as the patchwork legislature changes. Those that do not adapt their strategies to prepare for future changes will incur high costs during e-discovery processes, risk future sanctions and lose customer trust
Politico, Tim Starks — Morning Cybersecurity The newest Online Trust Alliance audit of 1,000 consumer websites out this morning finds that the Top 10 for privacy and security are Twitter HealthCare.gov, Pinterest, the White House, Dropbox, FileYourTaxes, LifeLock, Instagram, 1040.com and The Gap
Industry
Venture Beat, Jordan Novet — Dropbox won’t remove kernel access from upcoming Project Infinite feature
Cloud Computing, James Bourne — Egnyte focuses on data governance and reshapes EFSS strategy with Protect release
Bloomberg Technology, Eric Newcomer — Dropbox CEO Pushes Toward Profitability in a ‘Post-Unicorn Era’
ComputerWorld, Blair Hanley Frank — Google goes after SharePoint with new enterprise tools
