| November 21, 2013 | | InCITE | Your twice weekly digest of the most important developments in the consumerization of IT | | NASA astronauts are training underwater in special ocean missions and vessels to simulate life in space. One part of the training includes using iPads with Slideshark to view PowerPoint training sessions. | | White Paper: Lua Technologies The traditional challenges that CIOs and IT Managers face to procure solutions with optimal business value are being met with new demands. Today, IT departments need to also deliver technologies that are easier to use, deploy and implement – similar to consumer technologies. This phenomenon is known as the "consumerization of IT." Learn More | | The One Microsoft reorganization began sooner than you think -- it began with getting the people who built key Microsoft technologies to persuade more developers to use them, along with all the other devices and services they want to build on. | | White Paper: Lua Technologies The traditional challenges that CIOs and IT Managers face to procure solutions with optimal business value are being met with new demands. Today, IT departments need to also deliver technologies that are easier to use, deploy and implement – similar to consumer technologies. This phenomenon is known as the "consumerization of IT." Learn More | | Andrew McAfee, who has been studying the impact of big data for several years at MIT, says businesses all have the same three questions. Answering these questions goes a long way toward explaining what exactly "big data" means and why it's more than hype. | | No longer describing itself as a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company, Salesforce is finally calling its Salesforce release a platform, and building it API first. | | If "one" is such an important number to Salesforce.com, as with Heroku1, why are they peddling three separate platform offerings to the enterprise? The answer, as is ever the case with Salesforce.com, seems to lie not in technology, but in marketing. | | The inspiration for Salesforce1, the company's latest attempt to cater to mobile users, came partly from the consumer world. | | Drew Houston explains why the company bought Mailbox and how it fits into Dropbox's product philosophy: Solving problems hidden in plain sight. | | Amazon's latest Kindle Fire operating system update includes a native VPN, making it more appropriate for work uses, but it's still mainly for people who already have a lot invested in the Amazon ecosystem. | | | |
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