Box held its big annual developer event this week in San Francisco, complete with a not-exactly hard-hitting interview of Apple CEO Tim Cook by Box CEO Aaron Levie.
Techcruch reports on the new products and services that were introduced at the show, including a tool that can connect cameras to Box's software and automatically uploads those pictures into the platform.
MICROSOFT SPLITS FINANCIAL RESULTS INTO 3 NEW OPERATING GROUPS, IN LINE WITH SATYA NADELLA'S VISION Lest there be any doubt that Microsoft sees its future in cloud services, the company has decided to change the way it reports its financial performance to emphasis those services.
Venturebeat reports that the new Intelligent Cloud segment will cover "public, private and hybrid server products and services" like Azure, although I'm not convinced we'll get specific Azure financial information.
MICROSOFT EXPANDS AZURE CLOUD WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM ITS FRIENDS Speaking of Azure, Microsoft also held a conference this week, focused on its public cloud product.
Fortune takes a look at some of the announcements that emerged from the event, such as a deal with Structure 2015 speaker Florian Liebert's Mesosphere on container-related services.
CODING IN THE CLOUD ERA DEMANDS A STRUCTURAL RETHINK TO BAKE IN SECURITY AND PRIVACY One of the dominant themes we've heard from our Structure 2015 speakers as we've been preparing for the event is the need for companies thinking about moving toward cloud services -- or even ones that have always existed on cloud services -- to realize this world requires a whole new approach to application development.
Techcrunch has a nice interview with Jean Yang, a MIT grad student and researcher with a strong background in modern security development, on what it takes to manage security policies in this cloud era.
WELCOME TO YOUR CLOUD NATIVE JOURNEY (PART 1) Before you start overhauling your coding style for the cloud, there are a lot of high-level things to think about.
Pivotal's marketing team put out a nice post this week detailing some of the challenges faced by different types of organizations (spoiler alert: it turns into a commercial for Pivotal Cloud Foundry).
EMC EXEC DEFENDS "THE FEDERATION" The will-they/won't-they break-up saga of the EMC Federation hasn't really slowed down since news emerged that the parties are considering a restructuring of their relationship, but EMC's David Goulden is willing to defend the status quo. He told attendees at Recode's Code Enterprise conference (as
reported by Fortune) that "we really believe strongly that breaking up is the wrong thing to do."