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 05/31/21!

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IT Operations

• For companies stuck on transformation, cloud may be the answer

• Chip shortage will hit IT-hardware buyers for months to years

• Compromised cloud costs companies $6.2M, annually, study finds

Microsoft

• Microsoft Build 2021: Highlights from Satya Nadella's keynote address

• Microsoft to unveil what's next for Windows on June 24th

• Microsoft Dynamics 365: A cheat sheet

• Microsoft to roll out major improvements to file sharing in Office 365

• Microsoft's Azure IoT platform helps make farming greener as well as smarter

• Microsoft acquires ReFirm Labs to boost its IoT security offerings

Dell

• Dell EMC launches new VxRail systems, dynamic nodes, automation tools

Cisco

• Cisco's new networking tech helps bring businesses closer to the hybrid cloud

• Diving deeper into hybrid cloud operations with Intersight

• Enriching SD-WAN Visibility with Cisco ThousandEyes Internet and Cloud Intelligence

• Cisco launches Cisco UCS X-Series, tools for multicloud, hybrid cloud deployments

AWS

• AWS releases tool to open source that turns on-prem software into SaaS

• AWS launches Global Clusters to fast-track outage recovery

Security

• Ransomware: Dramatic increase in attacks causes big problems

• Cybersecurity: There's no such thing as a false positive

• White House urges US companies to take ransomware seriously

• COVID-19 has transformed work, but cybersecurity isn't keeping pace, report finds

• How ransomware actors are adding DDoS attacks to their arsenals

• Ransomware-as-a-service: How DarkSide and other gangs get into systems to hijack data

• How to combat malicious emails that bypass security and impact your users

• This is how attackers bypass Microsoft's AMSI anti-malware scanning protection 

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