Tip of the Clouds May
Storage & Collaboration
V3.co, Daniel Robinson — Cloud market moving to higher value services rather than commodity pricing Rather than being dominated by cut-throat commodity pricing, the cloud market sees customers increasingly looking for value-added services
451 Research, Sheryl Kingstone and Melissa Incera — Dropbox’s Project Infinite Uses Cloud Storage To Save on Space Dropbox has introduced Project Infinite, a feature designed to provide enterprise users access to all of their online and offline files, regardless of their drive space
Mattermark, Ron Miller — Taking Stock Of The Cloud Wars Microsoft’s cloud revenue is growing, but how does it stack up to the competition. The author takes a look 10 years down the road and the battleground for hyperscale storage systems
Medium, Rob Lai — The Enterprise Chasm Discussion of Application software networks to approach the exponential explosion of information along with it’s financial, security and operational implications
Security
CIO Dive, Justine Brown — Federal tech team accused of ‘data breach’ for connecting Slack, Google Drive An inspector general report released Thursday said the federal digital services team, 18F, was found linking workplace applications, which could have potentially exposed sensitive data and constitutes a “data breach.”
InfoSecurity Magazine, Matt Piercy — Finding Alternative Ways to Close the Security Gap there are simply too many competing applications on the market to tempt employees. To keep pace, IT must go from “block or allow” to “manage and monitor.” Network data will help businesses understand employee behavior and in doing so, CIOs and CISOs can support the cloud apps that employees choose in a manner that doesn’t expose the company to unnecessary risk.
ITProPortal, Paul LaPorte — Healthcare ransom: A security nightmare The author discusses the perils and response mechanisms against ransomware
Business 2 Community, Mark Nunnikhoven — The Evolution Revolution: The Network and Its Security is Changing, Are You Ready? The author discusses the evolution beyond a strong perimeter and how to level up
Industry
CloudPro, Joe Curtis — Microsoft revamps SharePoint, turning it into a Box competitor
CMS Wire, Xenia Von Wedel — Has Citrix Lost its Focus?
Dropbox Blog, James Cowling — Inside the Magic Pocket
451 Research, Nick Patience — “Dropbox extends its enterprise ambitions (and your laptop) with Project Infinite”
WinBeta, Kit McDonald — “Dropbox app on Windows 10 adds in-app camera, new UI, more in latest update”
eWeek, Chris Preimesberger — EMC Launches Virtustream Global Hyper-scale Storage Cloud
CIO Dive, Justine Brown — “Dropbox, IBM formalize partnership” adds EMM
