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 02/01/21!

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IT Operations

• 4 cloud trends to watch in 2021

• Cloud computing: AWS is still the biggest player, but Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud are growing fast

• Gartner: Worldwide IT spend will recover to $3.9 trillion in 2021

• Then and now: Digital transformation in the pandemic landscape

• 5 strategies to mitigate disruption when apps move to the cloud

• CEOs are challenged to manage an "anywhere" workforce

• Ford taps Google Cloud as preferred vendor amid modernization push

• This is what makes a great CIO: Five things you need to focus on in 2021

• Zoom aims to meld remote, in-office collaboration to prep for hybrid workplaces 

Microsoft

• Windows 10 2004 just hit a major milestone

• Microsoft outlines plans for Viva, an employee-experience platform anchored in Teams

• Microsoft just completed the world's largest email migration, shifting 2.1 million mailboxes for the NHS

• Windows 10 PowerToys: A cheat sheet

VMware

• VMware updates vRealize portfolio with improved security, automation tools

• Announcing VMware Cloud Foundation 4.2

• New Release - VMware PowerCLI 12.2

• What's new in vRealize Operations 8.3

Cisco

• Cisco's AppDynamics debuts app performance, vulnerability management software

• Cisco Meraki and Openpath launch new enterprise access, video security solutions

AWS

• Visualizing AWS Config data using Amazon Athena and Amazon QuickSight

• AWS PrivateLink for Amazon S3 is now generally available

• How to Build Secure Landing Zones in AWS

Security

• Why schools are vulnerable to ransomware attacks

• Google paid $6.7 million to bug bounty hunters in 2020

• Google: Proper patching would have prevented 25% of all zero-days found in 2020

• Trucking company Forward Air said its ransomware incident cost it $7.5 million

• Ransomware gangs made at least $350 million in 2020

• Security firm Stormshield discloses data breach, theft of source code

• Ransomware payments are going down as more victims decide not to pay up

• Cyberthreat trends in the remote work landscape

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