Tip of the Clouds

A publication focused on cloud, collaboration and resources for enterprise IT

Mar 21, 2016

Composability in the IT Stack

Consider the environment from which your predecessor CIO evaluated the infrastructure stack in the pre-Cloud era. The windows operating system had a near monopoly as did the office suite. So when evaluating email, Exchange server was an obvious choice. Exchange exclusively ran…

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Aug 8, 2016

Tip of The Clouds August

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.

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Oct 2, 2015

The Enterprise Chasm

IT faces more complexity and risk today than in years past. Evidenced by the nearly 80% of cybersecurity professionals who believe their job is harder now than just 2 years ago. Peers point to a combination of new IT initiatives in cloud and mobile computing, increasingly dangerous…

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May 3, 2015

What You’re Missing About EFSS and the future of work

Cloud and SaaS applications like Salesforce, Workday, Linkedin and Netsuite have transformed specific business units — Sales, HR, Recruiting and ERP respectively. These verticalized applications have had a profound impact on the way work…

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Jul 15, 2016

July 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

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Nov 28, 2015

The Commoditization of the OS

When Netscape Navigator was released in 1994, it quickly claimed more than 90 percent of the internet browser market. Marc Andreessen, the company’s co-founder, predicted at the time that the Web would make operating systems such as Microsoft’s Windows “irrelevant.” However…

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Mar 15, 2016

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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

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Feb 4, 2016

February Tip of the Clouds Biweekly

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Jan 4, 2016

Introducing Tip of the Clouds

This is Tip of the Clouds, a publication focused on cloud storage & communication between systems and people. It will serve as a resource for enterprise IT professionals.

The first category (CRM) will go over 50% cloud in 2016. There are now 42+…

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Dec 21, 2015

Blackberry, The Original BYOD and its Security Implications

“How much presence does Apple have in business? It’s vanishingly small,” Mike Lazaridis, founder of RIM told the Guardian in a March 2007 interview. “I haven’t seen one.” The iPhone wasn’t secure, had rapid battery drain and a…

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