If you had a busy week and need to catch up, here’s our recap of tech stories you may have missed the week of 01/10/22!

IT Operations

• Top 7 challenges IT leaders will face in 2022

• Hybrid cloud hurdles - and how to address them

• IoT in 2022: IoT turns into a service

• The cloud comes down to earth

• 3 cloud trends to watch in 2022

• 7 hot IT budget investments - and 4 going cold

• Nvidia acquires Bright Computing

• How 5 executives prioritize IT projects

• 5 trends shaping enterprise SaaS use in 2022

• Hybrid cloud demands new tools for performance monitoring

Microsoft

• Windows PowerToys: A cheat sheet

• Microsoft announces new research and technology to empower millions of frontline workers

• Microsoft Cloud for Retail is now generally available

• Azure Cost Management and Billing 2021 year in review

• Accelerate your website with Azure Static Web Apps enterprise-edge

VMware

• Vmware brings Tanzu Application Platform into GA to ease Kubernetes adoption

• VMware ESXi 7 users vulnerable to hypervisor takeover bug

• VMware Tanzu GA gives Cloud Foundry pros a Kubernetes leg up
• Dell and VMware continue collaboration to meet demand for edge and as-a-service solutions

Cisco

• Nine top of mind issues for CISOs going into 2022

• Attaining Business Resiliency with Cisco Nexus Dashboard Insights

AWS

• AWS announces new launch speed optimizations for Microsoft Windows Server Instances on Amazon EC2

• Amazon RDS Performance Insights now supports new API endpoints

• A new AWS Console Home experience

• Configure AWS SSO ABAC for EC2 instances and Systems Manager Session Manager

Security

• Log4j threats expected to play out well into 2022

• US government urges organizations to prepare for Russian-sponsored cyber threats

• Cisco Talos discovers a new malware campaign using the public cloud to hide its tracks

• 4 ways cybercriminals hide credential stuffing attacks

• Cybercrime group Elephant Beetle lurks inside networks for months

• Thousands of enterprise servers are running vulnerable BMCs, researchers find

• Phishing lures await in Google Docs comments

• 9 ways that cybersecurity may change in 2022

• Weekly cyberattacks jumped by 50% in 2021, with a peak in December due largely to the Log4J exploit

• URL parsing: A ticking time bomb of security exploits

• Google Drive, OneDrive tops cloud apps for malware delivery: report

• Organizations still downloading vulnerable Log4j versions