Cloud News Digest (July 22 - 28)

TOP 4 news for the week

iWork for iCloud is open for beta testing . Back in June, at WWDC 2013, Apple introduced new updates, where the emphasis is mainly on their “cloudiness”. The composition of iWork for iCloud, according to preliminary data, will include three applications - Keynote , Pages and Numbers .

MTS announced the start of reorganization - 90% of jobs will now be virtual. Jobs will be transferred to the cloud for easy access to work information and reduce company costs for maintaining computers. Now you can not discuss the issue of security of such cloud solutions, once the giants are ready for absolute transfer.

Google announced Chrome cast , a small television receiver with which users can display images and videos on their TV screens from smartphones, tablets and computers. There are already a few such things on the market - Apple TV and Dell Project Ophelia , but ChromeCast promises to outdo them in functionality.

Nizhny Novgorod schoolchildren presented their creation to the world - the “Digital sandwich” . This is a digital carrier with a volume of up to 28TB and sizes with a piece of A4 paper. The most interesting thing is that its cost will be around $ 15, that is, just like a Subway sandwich. Funders even shot a good video .
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Other news:

• Xbox loses its fans
• Bitcasa 2.0 for iOS + Review
• DataStax in round D attracted $ 45 million
• IBM enters PaaS market
• CIA will invest in cloud computing
• SwiftKey introduced Cloud beta
• LightSpeed ​​went beyond iOS apps
• Bidgely raised $ 5m investment
• MySocialCloud bought by Reputation.com
• SAP offers its customers cloud solutions.
• New Zealand settles the cloud sphere
• Bigcommerce raised $ 40m
• Amazon cloud drive photos now with video
• New startup Lob is gaining momentum
• Freee raised $ 2.7million
• Holiday - sysadmin day