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 09/16/19!

Last Hardware Purchase? HPE & GreenPages Partner to Guide Customers on Hybrid-Cloud Journey 

IT Operations

• Top desktop as a service providers: Amazon, Citrix, Microsoft, VMware and more

• At half of businesses, public cloud data use expected to rise next year

• Skepticism slows cloud and SaaS adoption

• The evolution of SDN and its role in networking         

Microsoft

• Microsoft inches closer to releasing its AI-powered Scheduler bot

• Microsoft acquires code-analysis platform vendor Semmle

• Is Microsoft getting closer to launching its expected Microsoft 365 Consumer subscription?

• Microsoft plans to rearchitect Azure Stack by making it container-based    

Cisco

• Cisco spreads ACI to Microsoft Azure, multicloud and SD-WAN environments

• Cisco named a leader in the 2019 Gartner Magic Quadrant for network firewalls  

Citrix

• Citrix Cloud and the shared responsibility model

• What's new with Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops  

VMware

• VMware Tools 11.0 - Out Now!

• VMware Workstation Zealot

• VMware Fusion 11.5 available    

AWS

• How to create a data backup plan using AWS Backup

• AWS says servers secure to following Malindo Air data breach

• Architecting multiple microservices behind a single domain with Amazon API Gateway

• New- Step functions support for dynamic parallelism    

Security

• Small businesses underestimate financial damage of cyberattacks

• A new type of DDoS attack can amplify attack strength by more than 15,300%

• Yahoo data breach settlement means affected users may get $100

• How to handle the public disclosure of bugs and security vulnerabilities

• Target tackles identity and access management with zero trust

• Internet treated casually, but it's 'live-fire combat,' experts say

• Three reasons why killing passwords improves your cloud security

• Cloud (In)security: Protecting your business across multiple platforms

• Secrets of the latest Smominru botnet variant revealed in a new attack                

Thanks for checking out our tech news recap!

By Jake Cryan, Digital Marketing Specialist