Weekly Roundup January 25, 2019 – A New Alpin Guide, Google, and More Breaches

Why read this with nearly infinite news on the internet? We try to pick good articles you might like, and we think you might chuckle a little at our interpretation of the headlines. Here’s the latest from Alpin:  SaaS Budgeting Guide: How To Stop Guessing And Start Planning

SaaS Product Updates

Google raises G Suite prices from 0.4 Microsofts to 0.5 Microsofts. The cloud-productivity-suite wars continue.

Whew, FINALLY I can get Office 365 from the Mac App store. My long wait is over!

I suppose it’s not a good sign that Apple cut 200 people from its autonomous car division… but maybe it’s good news if you work in trucking or other forms of driving.

Tips and Tricks

Want to see some popular machine learning and data science projects on GitHub? Have they got a nice blog post with stats for you.

And now for something totally inexplicable: NetSuite shares Valentines promotion ideas for your restaurant. For some reason, the Internet has made me so cynical I expected it to be a joke blog post.

How to create a travel and expense policy in 3 minutes, from Concur. That just about confirms for me how much thought goes into travel and expense policies (sometimes – don’t worry Karen in accounting, we’re still buds!)

Security

“Hey, how’d you configure the server storing all the sensitive financial documents we digitized for all our customers? You didn’t expose it to the public web, did you?” 24M records this time

Headlines that scare normal people but just make cyber pros sigh slightly harder than usual, #4,523 “Securonix report outlines the threat posed by automated multi-vector, multi-platform attacks against cloud infrastructure.”

Headlines that should scare anyone, #3,689: “Business failing to see strategic value of cyber security” Probably the same, “eh, breaches are just inevitable” crowd

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