This issue of AnalystPerspectives Weekly Scan covers analyst commentary from the week ending July 04, 2014.

This week in the Cloud Computing section, you will find public, private and government cloud coverage and discussions:

• How should governments go cloud first? | Ovum - Sun, 29 Jun 2014 |Steve Hodgkinson
• Public vs Private Cloud for File Sharing and Sync  | Real Story Group - Wed, 02 Jul 2014  
• Customers Aren't Buying Public Cloud-Based DR Services . . . Yet | Forrester - Wed, 02 Jul 2014 |Sudhanshu Bhandari
• Skyscape shakes up Government Cloud | Pierre Audoin Consultants (PAC) - Tue, 01 Jul 2014 |Nick Mayes
• Data Protection – from mainframe to Cloud | Storage Switzerland, LLC - Wed, 02 Jul 2014 |Colm Keegan

There are a variety of topics being talked about in the Security & Privacy section.  Here is a sample of what you will find:

• The Heartbleeds for XP | AMI Partners - Fri, 04 Jul 2014  
• Why the Security Problem Has Shifted from Microsoft to Google | Enderle Group - Wed, 02 Jul 2014 |Rob Enderle
• Security: the oft-forgotten dimension | Freeform Dynamics - Wed, 02 Jul 2014 |Charles Brett
• Mobile security is more than protecting local data | Freeform Dynamics - Fri, 04 Jul 2014 |Jack Vile
• No Windows XP Support = Boost in PC Sales | NPD Group - Thu, 03 Jul 2014 |Ali Naqvi

BYOD, Mobile UC and other market developments can be found in the Mobile & Broadband section.  Here are a few headlines:

• Mobile UC And The PSTN? | The Unified View - Thu, 03 Jul 2014 |Arthur Rosenberg
• It turns out not everyone wants BYOD | Joe McKendrick - Thu, 03 Jul 2014  
• Is Your Mobile Device Making You More or Less Productive? | Aberdeen Group - Tue, 01 Jul 2014  
• Analyst view: EC approves takeover of E-Plus by O2 in Germany | Ovum - Wed, 02 Jul 2014 |James Robinson
• IDC Comment - Three Is the Magic Number for European Mobile Markets | IDC - Wed, 02 Jul 2014  

Here are more headlines to note this week:

• Salesforce.com Expands into SAP's Turf | Technology Evaluation Centers - Fri, 04 Jul 2014  
• How EMM Integration Makes Android Less "Evil" | InfoTech - Tue, 01 Jul 2014 |Mike Battista
• What's the big deal over Amazon's "stealth attack" on VMware? | InfoTech - Wed, 02 Jul 2014 |John Sloan
• Roundup Of Analytics, Big Data & Business Intelligence Forecasts And Market Estimates, 2014 | A Passion for Research - Thu, 03 Jul 2014 |Louis Columbus
• Does Google Dream of Electric Sheep? | Strategy Analytics - Fri, 04 Jul 2014  
• Frost & Sullivan: Tablets to Bridge the Gap with Smartphones as More Data-intensive Mobile Applications Migrate over to Tablets | Frost & Sullivan - Wed, 02 Jul 2014  
• Legislating an Internet Delete Button and the Right to be Forgotten | IDC Insights - Mon, 30 Jun 2014 |Michael Versace