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 04/26/21!

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IT Operations

• IT outsourcing to surge in 2021

• Cloud spending shifts: More innovation, less back-end support

• COVID-19 upends disaster recovery planning

• Digital transformation tops service management as main business priority in 2020

• Cloud computing spending accelerates again as Microsoft, Google chase AWS

• Disaster recovery plans imperative as climate change threatens data center uptime

• Why hybrid cloud is here to stay

• Cloud computing in the real world: The challenges and opportunities of multicloud

Microsoft

• Microsoft's Nuance deal might trigger a new IT spending wave

• Microsoft says Windows 10 now on 1.3 billion monthly active devices

• Windows 10 21H1: Microsoft's next version of Windows take a big step forwards

• Remote work: This is how fast Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365 are growing

• Microsoft: It's 90 days until the end of Skype for Business Online, here's what to expect

• Microsoft buys Flatcar Container Linux creator Kinvolk

VMware

• 3 key operational considerations to support an anywhere workforce

• How digital transformation is powering VMware's SaaS business growth

Cisco

• Cisco: Engineers, developers must keep current on innovative technologies

• Cisco Intersight, a Capabilities-as-a-Service platform, for an agile, API-driven world

• 8 reasons why you should pick Cisco Viptela SD-WAN

AWS

• Better together: AWS SAM and AWS CDK

• Introducing OpenSearch

• Amazon Redshift announces general availability of support for JSON and semi-structured data processing

• Preventing malware in serverless web applications with SophosLabs Intelix

• Diagnose and remediate AWS Security Hub findings with AWS Systems Manager OpsCenter and Explorer

Security

• Global trends will increase nation-state threats for the US in next 20 years

• Ransomware extortion demands are growing, and so is the downtime caused by attacks

• Ransomware attack hits Washington, D.C. police department

• Phishing attacks target Chase Bank customers

• How phishing attacks spoofing Microsoft are evading security detection

• Ransomware is now a national security risk. This group thinks it knows how to defeat it

• Paleohacks data leak exposes customer records, password reset tokens

• Apple patches MacOS Gatekeeper bypass vulnerability exploited in the wild

• Emotet botnet harvested 4.3 million email addresses. Now the FBI is using Have I Been Pwned to alert the victims

• COVID-19, WFH prompts spike in cyberattacks against banks, insurers  

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