TechCrunch | Microsoft and Oracle announced a new alliance yesterday that will see the two companies directly connect their clouds over a direct network connection so that their users can then move workloads and data seamlessly between the two. This alliance goes a bit beyond just basic direct connectivity and also includes identity interoperability.

BetterCloud Monitor | Once upon a time, it was easy to secure your IT kingdom. But just like castles fell in the 1300s because of the evolution and enhancement of gunpowder, our technology perimeter has fallen with the evolution and enhancement of SaaS and cloud-based services. Without our walls, without the perimeter to limit access to services, we must evolve to introduce cloud enablement. Read about how to evolve your perimeter management over 90 days.

Krebs on Security | Medical testing giant LabCorp. said personal and financial data on some 7.7 million consumers were exposed by a breach at a third-party billing collections firm. That third party—the American Medical Collection Agency (AMCA)—also recently notified competing firm Quest Diagnostics that an intrusion in its payments Web site exposed personal, financial and medical data on nearly 12 million Quest patients.

Computerworld | The Microsoft Store offers very few truly useful downloads and has an indifferent base of users who rarely bother to spend the time to rate and review the software the store hosts. The problem isn’t that there’s not a lot of great Windows software to download. There’s plenty of it—just not on the Microsoft Store.

How-To Geek | Through all of human history, a mess of tabs has been a sign of poor productivity. But that 100-tab habit could be the secret to your productivity, so long as you have the right extensions and hardware.

How-To Geek | Microsoft Outlook lets you create electronic sticky notes that you can display either in Outlook or right on your desktop, letting you get all those real sticky notes off your desk.

G Suite Updates | Google is making changes to how we calculate active users across G Suite applications in your organization.

G Suite Updates | Google has added a new event to the OAuth Token Audit Activity Events in the Reports API and Reports section of the Admin console. This new event is called “Activity,” and it shows how second- and third-party apps are using the G Suite OAuth API tokens they’ve been granted. This event is in addition to the previously available Authorize and Revoke events.