For BYOD, money changes everything

Which cloud providers had the best uptime last year? | Microsoft cloud services provide construction firm with cost-savings, increased productivity Follow CITEworld BY IDG ENTERPRISE January 15, 2015 InCITE Your weekly digest of the most important developments in the consumerization of IT For BYOD, money changes everything You can't blame employees for wanting to be paid for using their personal phones and tablets for work. And it's understandable that companies don't want to subsidize personal use. Who foots the bill for BYOD phones has turned into a divisive issue. But that may be changing.   Which cloud providers had the best uptime last year? Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud Platform recorded impressive statistics for how reliable their public IaaS clouds were in 2014, with both providers approaching what some consider the Holy Grail of availability: five nines.   Microsoft cloud services provide construction firm with cost-savings, increased productivity Chicago-based firm Walsh Group Construction is finding that buying into Microsoft's Enterprise Mobility Suite has helped streamline its BYOD program and that relying on the cloud service required a leap of faith for security. First Look: Firefox 35 Mozilla brings an app store, performance tweaks, and more to latest Firefox web browser. Google stops patching core Android component in 60% of devices Google has stopped patching a core component of Android in versions older than "KitKat," a security researcher said today, as he urged the company to reconsider the policy that could leave more than 60% of all Android users vulnerable to attacks. The coolest, craziest PC mods and builds of 2015 (so far) The year is still extremely young, but we just returned from CES 2015, where a small army of PCs appeared in all sorts of shapes, sizes, and configurations. Check out some of these monsters. Windows 7 exits mainstream support: What you need to know Don't panic! Windows 7 exiting mainstream support on January 13, 2015, shouldn't have a major effect on day-to-day use. New service wants to rent out your hard drive's extra space A new service is beta testing a peer-to-peer network that would "rent" unused capacity on your computer's hard drive to store other people's files. Windows 10, Chrome OS battle royale to benefit PCs this year IDC is projecting PC shipments will stabilize this year, and get better in 2016. Wearables go niche and narrow in the search for consumer relevance It's not enough to track steps anymore.The latest wearables are extremely mission-specific, aimed at narrow sports categories instead of general fitness.   Follow CITEworld 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) 2015 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.**