BetaNews | A new survey finds that 85 percent of companies believe embracing the public cloud is critical to fuel innovation. But of those who have already adopted public cloud, only 40 percent have in place an approach to managing cloud and container security.
VentureBeat | The remote working shift spurred by COVID-19 continues to drive explosive growth for companies providing the tools and platforms to connect people across distances. The latest evidence of this trend comes from Microsoft, which announced that Microsoft Teams set a new daily record of 2.7 billion meeting minutes, up 200% from the 900 million minutes it recorded on March 16, when many lockdowns were just going into effect.
Bloomberg | In ordinary times, they moved among companies largely unnoticed. Now we can’t get enough of them. The Covid-19 pandemic has thrust once-anonymous IT support workers into a new role: corporate saviors. As millions of employees make the transition from well-maintained office equipment to jury-rigged kitchen table setups, information technology departments have been called upon to keep companies online and connected.
ZDNet | Microsoft is shifting its Windows focus to reflect the new world where virtualization and single-screen devices are more of a priority than brand-new form factors.
The Enterprisers Project | Check out nine of the best TED Talks on challenges related to remote work and managing remote teams. Improve your communication, fight burnout, and strengthen connections.
Fast Company | Zoom would very much like you to know that it’s fixing its biggest privacy and security problems. But while Zoom is scrambling to make further security and privacy improvements—and has frozen new feature development for 90 days while it does so—users still need to exercise some caution. Here are some security and privacy issues you still have to keep in mind before setting up your next Zoom meeting.
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9to5Google | This week saw Hangouts Meet become Google Meet amid a surge in video conferencing usage. Hangouts Chat is picking up a new feature that lets you forward messages to Gmail.
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