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 11/04/19!

Microsoft's Azure Architecture Center: Mind Map to Help
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IT Operations

• 5 key Forrester predictions for the future software development 

• How 'the couch' is the supporting ExxonMobil's spring to digital transformation     

• Gartner's strategic tech trends for 2020: Part 1, augmenting skills

• Big data: Three ways to ensure information is turned into insight

• October research round-up: IT spending, cloud computing, big data

• Leadership in the modern networking infrastructure world

• Nvidia wins new AI inference benchmark for data center and edge SoC workloads      

Cloud

• Multicloud vs. hybrid cloud: What it all means

• IBM develops financial services-ready public cloud

• Forrester: The 5 ways cloud computing will change in 2020       

Microsoft

• Why Azure Arc is a game changer for Microsoft

• Success in the cloud: Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure

• Inside the Microsoft team tracking the world's most dangerous hackers

• How Microsoft is trying to become more innovative 

Cisco

• Cisco and Microsoft advance technology partnership to improve SD-WAN and cloud connectivity

• Cisco: All these routers have the same embedded crypto keys, so update firmware

• Cisco Meraki ups security with new switch, software

• Cisco beefs up collaboration suite with new features and devices    

HPE

• HPE boosts storage, hyperconvergence products with AI      

VMware

• VMware readies on-premise and as-a-service hybrid offerings

• Will replication help spur adoption of VMware vVOLs?  

AWS

• Now Available: New C5d Instance Sizes and Bare Metal Instances

• Meet the newest AWS Heroes, including the first Data Heroes!  

Security

• Don't do the obvious after a ransomware attack, do remain paranoid

• ConnectWise warns of ongoing ransomware attacks targeting its customers

• Boeing's poor information security posture threatens passenger safety, national security, researcher says

• Defenders can discover phishing sites through web analytics IDs

• 5 keys to protect your supply chain from cyberattacks

• Organizations fail to implement basic cloud security tools

• Microsoft confirms Windows 'BlueKeep' attack: Users told to patch now                              

Thanks for checking out our tech news recap!

By Jake Cryan, Digital Marketing Specialist