If you had a busy week in the office and need to catch up, here’s our recap of tech articles you may have missed the week of 07/08/19!

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 IT Operations

• NVIDIA DGX-Ready program goes global, double colocation partners 

• UC network management embraces automation, AI, SD-WAN

• How to properly set user expectations about VDI performance

• How to proceed with deep legacy hardware

• How digital transformation disrupts C-suite dynamics

• Gartner: Companies shied away data center spending in 2019

• Cloudflare outage highlights the internet's fragility 

• AI applications, chips, deep tech, and geopolitics in 2019: The stakes have never been higher 

Cloud

• Juniper updates its multi-cloud container platform Juke

• Red Hat acquisition is hybrid, open source power play for IBM, but it must tread carefully 

• 4 critical considerations: Shifting IT infrastructure to public cloud 

Microsoft

• Microsoft says Teams now has 13M daily active users

• Working smarter with Microsoft 365

• Microsoft is making Windows 10 passwordless 

• Microsoft database turns to the cloud as support ends for SQL Server 2008 

• Now Microsoft wants to use AI to save history 

Cisco

• Cisco shells out $2.6B for optical networking chipmaker Acacia Communications

• Tetration Micro-Segmentation: Secure Your Applications and Your Seat at the Yankees Game  

HPE

•  HPE Primera: How is 100% of data availability meaningfully different from 99.999%+?

AWS

• AWS intros new EventBridge, CDK services as CTO Vogels urges customers to 'encrypt everything' 

• Do DevSecOps with AWS to practice cybersecurity vigilance

• AWS Summit widens net with services for containers, devs  

Security

•  Wannacry ransomware attack: Industry experts offer their tips for prevention

• Gone phishing: Why summer brings increased security threats to the enterprise

• Cybersecurity: Malware lingers in SMBs for an average of 800 days before discovery

• Corporate users struggle to identify phishing attacks, other security threats

• Cybersecurity incidents cost businesses $45B last year

• How financial services companies can protect against mobile threats

• British Airways, Marriott International set the stage for GDPR fines outside tech industry      

• Must-have features in a modern network security architecture 

• One issue is probably to blame for your IT outages and data losses - and it's not hackers 

• Bitpoint cryptocurrency exchange hacked for $32 million

Thanks for checking out our tech news recap!

By Jake Cryan, Digital Marketing Specialist