Tech News: IT Insights in July

What has been going on in the IT world in July? We compiled the latest vendor news and trending topics of the past month. It just takes you a few minutes to stay up-to-date.

An article by the COMPAREX Blog Editorial Team 

Vendor News

 Microsoft: prompts its users to update Windows 10

 Microsoft: 5 major announcements at Inspire 2017

 Microsoft: improves Azure's analytical capabilities with Cloudyn acquisition

 Microsoft: launches new email marketing and invoicing tools

 IBM: launches a new IT management services platform

 Symantec: reportedly puts $1B Web Certificate Business up for sale

 Symantec: buys mobile security startup Skycure

 Citrix: appoints a new CEO in under two years

 IBM: opens four new data centers

 IBM: wants you to encrypt everything with its new mainframe

 Microsoft: Windows 10 Redstone – A guide to the builds

 Microsoft: brings Version History support to all files in OneDrive

 Microsoft: Windows 10 virtualization available from Microsoft cloud partners starting this fall

 Oracle: brings On-Premises Software-As-A-Service to Cloud At Customer

 Oracle: released its biggest set of critical security update

 Sophos: Dan Schiappa on the importance of being predictive, not reactive, with Endpoint Security

 VMware: Cloud On AWS - vendors and partners weigh the opportunity and risks

 Microsoft: Windows 10 Fall Creators Update - 9 key enterprise features

 Adobe: Petition asks to open source Flash

Tech Trends

 Gartner: "Worldwide device shipments will decline in 2017"

 Who needs hard drives? Scientists store film clip in DNA

 Gartner: "AI Technologies Will Be in Almost Every New Software Product by 2020"

 State of Cybercrime 2017: Security events decline, but not the impact