May 01, 2014 | InCITE | Your twice weekly digest of the most important developments in the consumerization of IT | A UMass business school professor created an international cloud collaboration course built using Microsoft tools. | White Paper: Google Apps Switching to Google Apps halved Quadmark's IT admin costs while achieving 10% time savings per employee. The global consulting firm now spends 80% less time training new hires on email and collaboration tools. Learn more>> | Netskope found that the bulk of cloud apps being used by workers would be blocked by firewalls but were given exceptions. | White Paper: Code42 Three primary cloud deployment strategies are available today for enterprise softwarepublic cloud, private cloud and hybrid cloud. However, many vendors force enterprises to choose between data security or cloud deployment flexibility; they're either unable or unwilling to give the enterprise both. Learn More | With the announcement of a new mobile user help desk solution and integration with infrastructure-analyzer Splunk, MobileIron is looking to bridge the old and new worlds of IT. | Early on in Jurassic Park, Jeff Goldblum's character comments that even on an island populated entirely by female dinosaurs, breeding is still a concern, because "life, uh, finds a way." That feeling should be familiar to IT administrators in the era of smartphones, free cloud storage, and Evernote: If it's at all possible to get Gmail and Dropbox on a device, you'd better believe that users will find a way. That's the story that Cisco Senior IT Manager Brett Belding and Sanofi Head of Mobility Innovation Brian Katz told at this week's CITE Conference in San Francisco, highlighting how their two companies take different approaches to BYOD that try to balance the carrot of user empowerment with the stick of IT administration -- and it's far from a solved problem. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here | The NASA Jet Propulsion Lab's Tom Soderstrom explained how the space agency is using the cloud to help researchers do more with less, faster than ever before. | Enterprises eager to leverage data analytics often don't know where to start. IDC analyst Dan Vesset offers some advice on where enterprises should begin their data analytics journey. | Facebook wants to make it easier for mobile developers to link to other mobile apps. | A panel at the CITE Conference gave tips for letting users go rogue without going too far. | Tibco's acquisition of Jaspersoft hints at much more activity to come in the fast-moving data visualization market. | Search giant reportedly working on expanding voice-activated commands beyond search and a handful of contact-related apps. | | | |
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