CIO upfront: Reimagining the workplace for the digital age
Businesses can’t simply add software to a legacy business model or process and call it ‘digital’, writes Scott Leader of Box
Businesses can’t simply add software to a legacy business model or process and call it ‘digital’, writes Scott Leader of Box
Aaron Levie, the outspoken founder and CEO of enterprise file sharing and storage powerhouse Box, talked to Network World ahead of the company’s news about its Zones and Accelerator projects. Levie also discussed start-ups, the march of the public cloud, and even his past work as a professional magician.
Companies are wary about what employees are doing on their smartphones. Be it data loss or time-wasting, a growing number of employers are actively stopping staff from using certain apps on company-controlled devices.
File synchronization services, used to accommodate roaming employees inside organizations, can also be a weak point that attackers could exploit to remain undetected inside compromised networks.
In another sign of the movement of more and more data into Cloud services, global first-quarter sales of Cloud-related hardware rose 25.1 per cent year-on-year, to nearly $US6.3 billion, according to an IDC survey.
The cloud software maker is now hosting communications capabilities, including phone services and web meetings, in the cloud.