A deeper look at Amazon’s latest backend-as-a-service features

How Box took off at Toyota, where SharePoint is already used | Nadella's Microsoft is obsessed with data-driven growth hacking Follow CITEworld BY IDG ENTERPRISE July 14, 2014 InCITE Your twice weekly digest of the most important developments in the consumerization of IT A deeper look at Amazon's latest backend-as-a-service features AWS makes a play for the mobile developer with identity and analytics tools, and an updated SDK. Resource compliments of: PC Connection Need to justify a storage refresh? Get SMART, get started. Storage modernization unlocks the full potential of your data center. It increases storage capacity, boosts performance, and reduces costs per gigabyte. Take an educated look at storage with our three-level S.M.A.R.T. methodology. Learn how to create a cost effective model with unrivaled flexibility with our Storage Modernization and Refresh Toolkit. How Box took off at Toyota, where SharePoint is already used It started as a pilot project for execs. Now, Toyota is using 2600 seats, with an option to buy more. White Paper: Bitglass Cloud Adoption Report Who's got SaaS and what holds others back? The hard facts on SaaS adoption in over 80,000 enterprises: - Public vs. private companies - Mid-market vs. large enterprise - GoogleApps, Office365, Salesforce & more - Why security is a growing concern Learn more >> Nadella's Microsoft is obsessed with data-driven growth hacking To be the productivity and platform company, Microsoft needs people to use its products; data science is how it's going to get more people to do that. A walk through the future where everything is connected Everything, in theory, can connect to everything else via a sensor, processor, and transmitter. That means the boundaries of a connected product and its related vertical markets are, in theory, limitless. 5 key steps to building an analytics culture Enterprises that are leaders in leveraging data analytics do several things differently than data analytics laggards. Does the Internet of Things really need a hub? Apple thinks it should be the hub for the Internet of Things. Google thinks Android should be. Why can't we just have the Internet be the communication platform? With RelateIQ buy, Salesforce gets relationship intelligence Salesforce scooped up RelateIQ, a service that pulls email, calendar, and phone data as well as information from social media sites into a CRM service that mines the data to make suggestions for users. The three most important things in Satya Nadella's mega-memo In a lengthy memo, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella hinted at changes to come. Amazon takes on Box, BaaS providers Amazon introduced Amazon Zocalo, an enterprise document collaboration service, and AWS Mobile Services, a mobile backend-as-a-service for mobile app developers. Samsung: We're not abandoning KNOX On Wednesday, a report from Forbes left some security experts scratching their heads, when a contributor for the publication reported that Samsung was throwing in the towel on the Knox platform.   Follow CITEworld Share this email You are currently subscribed to citeworld_weekly_update as security.world@gmail.com. Unsubscribe from this newsletter | Manage your subscriptions | Subscribe | Privacy Policy When accessing content promoted in this email, you are providing consent for your information to be shared with the sponsors of the content. Please see our Privacy Policy for more information. Copyright (C) 2014 CITEworld, 492 Old Connecticut Path, Framingham MA 01701 **Please do not reply to this message. To contact someone directly, send an e-mail to online@citeworld.com.**