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 03/01/21!

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IT Operations

• IT plans for business continuity ahead of the next disaster

• Top 5 things to know about hybrid cloud

• Remote work: 5 things every business needs to know

• Infrastructure modernization remains the biggest use case for enterprise open source

• Digital transformation hit overdrive for retailers and restaurants in 2020

• Under pressure, IT workers brace for more complexity

• Legacy tech, privacy and security issues bog down healthcare innovation

• CIO Jury: Remote work will remain an option for 100% of employees after the pandemic  

Microsoft

• Microsoft Ignite Data and Analytics roundup: Platform extensions are the key theme

• Microsoft Exchange zero-day vulnerabilities exploited in attacks against US local governments

• Microsoft shares more on what's coming in Windows Server 2022

• Microsoft unveils Azure Percept kit for bringing Azure AI services to edge devices

• Microsoft to add new shared channels, encryption for calls, webinar features to Teams 

• At Microsoft Ignite, expanding reach for Azure ML & Purview, Power BI Premium

VMware

• Microsoft, VMware marry Azure Virtual WAN Hub with VMware SD-WAN

Cisco

• Avoiding shut-down disaster: How Woodforest National Bank navigated COVID-19 with Cisco SD-WAN

AWS

• AWS selected as official cloud provider of PGA Tour

• How to protect sensitive data for its entire lifecycle in AWS

• Micro-frontend Architectures on AWS

• Using API destinations with Amazon EventBridge 

Security

• SolarWinds security fiasco may have started with simple password blunders

• Ransomware as a service is the new big problem for business

• CISA issues emergency directive to agencies: Deal with Microsoft Exchange zero-days now

• Singapore Airlines frequent flyer members hit in third-party data security breach

• Accellion zero-day claims a new victim in cybersecurity company Qualys

• Report: Quality, not quantity, is the hallmark of the latest waves of phishing attacks

• Should you pay up when hit by ransomware? There are several things to consider first

• This dangerous ransomware is using a new trick to encrypt your network

• Microsoft Exchange zero-day vulnerabilities being actively exploited in the wild  

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