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 10/18/21!

IT Operations

• Gartner: 12 technology trends for 2022 and beyond

• Security, remote work support top concerns amongst firms

• 8 security trends facing the enterprise

• IT budgets to jump 3.6% in 2022, largest increase in a decade

• Three ways SMBs can transform, digitally

Microsoft

• Microsoft bought CloudKnox because hybrid multicloud identity is complicated

• Microsoft announces security programs for nonprofits as nation-state attacks increase

• Microsoft tells Windows 10 users to prepare for November 21H2 update

• Microsoft Teams: Your video calls just got a big security boost

• AMD and Microsoft push for fix for Windows 11 performance problems

VMware

• Deep dive into OSE 2.1 Kubernetes Backup & Restore

• New VMware cross-cloud services

Cisco

• Application aware networking with Cisco SD-WAN

• Modernizing security operations with XDR

• Secure and simplify your programmable edge and industrial sensors

HPE

• For the third year in a row, HPE is name leader in the 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for primary storage

AWS

• Computer vision at the edge with AWS Panorama

• Build operational metrics for your enterprise AWS Glue Data Catalog at scale

• How automated reasoning helps Amazon S3 innovate at scale

Security

• Thanks to a nasty GPSD bug, real-life time travel trouble arrives this weekend

• Ransomware: Looking for weaknesses in your own network is key to stopping attacks

• How to proactively detect and prevent ransomware attacks

• This monster of a phishing campaign is after your passwords

• Illinois candy giant hit with ransomware weeks before Halloween

• Avoid paying ransoms, Gartner says. Instead, focus on situational awareness

• 450 million cyberattacks attempted on Japan Olympics infrastructure: NTT

• Google disrupts massive phishing and malware campaign

• CISA says BlackMatter ransomware group behind recent attacks on agriculture companies

• Supply chain attacks are the hacker's new favorite weapon. And the threat is getting bigger