Friday Tech News

Good morning and Happy Friday Monday! I’ll be doing 2 editions of FTN this week since I missed last weeks with a medical appointment. All good though - don’t worry 🙂 .

Thank you so much for making this a part of your Friday morning coffee time. I'm Phil Moroni, and I'm an Account Executive in the Information Technology industry here with another edition of Friday Tech News!

What is this? This is a newsletter that provides updates and insights on the latest trends and developments in the technology industry. I am a professional who specializes in supporting IT leaders in evaluating, investing, and managing people, processes, and technology tools that support their businesses.

Each week, I summarize relevant industry updates from popular Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM's), software publishers, and managed providers. The goal of my research and newsletter is to keep you informed about current trends and events that may impact your business from a trusted and reputable source. It's just information I'm sharing, and I follow and work with hundreds of partners in the industry, keeping track of their growth, changes, and evolution so that you don't have to.

Bottom Line: As you focus on improving your business through digital initiatives, my commitment is to keep you informed of the fast-paced changes and trends taking place so that you can plan ahead and stay ahead of the game.

Key areas of focus for me are:

1. Cloud Computing, Security, Trends

2. Developer & Security Tools

3. Networking & Infrastructure Tools

4. End User Tools & Workspace Tech

5. Emerging Technologies and Future Concepts

If you have any questions, would like information about any specific vendors I follow, or would like to have a conversation about any topic that is challenging you, I invite you to engage with me! I value feedback immensely and would love to know what you find valuable about this newsletter so feel free to reach out!

Thank you for reading and stay digitally and physically safe!

Phil

OEM News & Updates 📰

NVIDIA | Nvidia, Hugging Face and ServiceNow release new StarCoder2 LLMs for code generation

JFrog | JFrog Integrates with Qwak for Streamlined ML Application Delivery

Veeam | Veeam Launches Veeam Data Cloud to Deliver the Industry's Leading Data Protection and Recovery Services on a Single Cloud Platform

Cohesity | Cohesity Gaia harnesses conversational search with security and compliance at the forefront

Syniti | Syniti’s Rapid Data Governance Solution Is Now an SAPⓇ Endorsed App Available on SAP Store

Google Cloud | Google Introduces Firestore Multiple Databases

Versa Networks | Versa launches mobile telecom-focused SASE

NVIDIA | Nvidia and Google collaborate to optimize Gemma language models for enhanced GPU performance

Palo Alto Networks | Endpoint Security recent news

McAfee | McAfee Boosts Online Protection Capabilities with Launch of Social Privacy Manager

Bitdefender | Bitdefender Launches Cryptomining Protection Solution for Windows PCs

Microsoft | Microsoft invests in Europe's Mistral AI to expand beyond OpenAI

Unqork | Unqork Unveils Winter 2024 Platform Release, With New Composite App Capabilities, Case Management Solutions, and the First Open Source Specifications for Codeless Applications

New Relic | Sentry Software Partners with New Relic to Help Organizations Track their Carbon Footprint with On-prem Infrastructure Observability

HackerOne | HackerOne launches GenAI co-pilot 'Hai'

SentinelOne | NinjaOne and SentinelOne launched a bi-directional product

Google | Gemini Introduces Google Calendar Integration

ManageEngine | ManageEngine partners with Check Point to help organizations tackle mobile threats

New Relic | New Relic Launches Live Archives: Historical Logs with Instant Access

Airbyte | Airbyte Launches First Python Library for Data Movement, Providing Access to Hundreds of Data Connectors

Kandji | Kandji announces new integration with ServiceNow to deliver single-pane-of-glass visibility for Apple fleets

• Huge announcement in the competition between JAMF and Kandji.

Lambdatest | Lambdatest, Inc.: LambdaTest Announces algoQA Integration for Enhanced Testing Efficiency

Couchbase | Couchbase unveils vector search that extends to the edge

Hugging Face | Hugging Face and chums launch StarCoder 2

H20.ai | H2O.ai releases small language model

ServiceNow | ServiceNow partners with NVIDIA on telco-specific GenAI solutions

groundcover | groundcover Launches inCloud: Enterprise On-premise Observability Backend

UiPath | UiPath is now available on Google Cloud Marketplace and integrates with Google Vertex AI

Storj | Amove and Storj Simplify Instant Global File Access and Remote Collaboration

Google | Google expands BigQuery with Gemini, brings vector support to cloud databases

Articles I Liked This Week 💡

NIST | NIST Releases Version 2.0 of Landmark Cybersecurity Framework

Newsweek | Four Trends Poised to Shape Your Business in 2024

• I see more and more coverage of our industry in the news every week. It’s good to see these themes in a popular source like Newsweek. If you need help in any of these areas reach out.

Personnel Today | Workday accused of AI discrimination against applicants

CRN | 2024 CrowdStrike Global Threat Report: From Breakout to Breach in Under Three Minutes; Cloud Infrastructure Under Attack

VentureBeat | Elon Musk sues OpenAI over founding principles

• This honestly sounds like Elon being Elon and being a bit of a cry baby. Don’t you have enough Billions dude?

FinOps | Reducing Waste and Managing Commitments Top Key Priorities for FinOps Practitioners

Tech Funding & M&A 💸

Tufin | Tufin Acquires AKIPS

• AKIPS is a Australia based company that offers solutions such as network management and infrastructure monitoring for businesses.

Netwrix | Netwrix Corporation’s Acquisition of CoSoSys

• CoSoSys is a North Carolina based SaaS platform that provides solutions such as data loss prevention and theft protection for businesses.

Octopus Deploy | Octopus Deploy acquires Codefresh, expanding its CI/CD capabilities with GitOps

• Codefresh is a California based CI/CD platform that provides solutions including pipeline debugging, performance optimization, and deployment analysis for developers.

Workday | Workday Reports Q4 Results, Intends To Acquire HiredScore

• HiredSCore is a New Jersey based AI powered HR platform that provides solutions such as talent rediscovery, recruitment productivity and workforce hiring for businesses.

Glean | Citigroup just invested in an AI startup: find out more

• Glean is a California based GenAI driven workplace search platform that analyzes and summarizes query results from business apps, documents, conversations, and tickets.

Filigran | OpenCTI maker Filigran raises $16M for its cybersecurity threat management suite

• Filigran is a France based cybersecurity platform that provides solutions such as threat intelligence, crisis management, and attack simulation for businesses.

Figure | Figure Raises $675M at $2.6B Valuation and Signs Collaboration Agreement with OpenAI

• Figure is a California based AI robotics company developing general purpose humanoid robots.

Meme of the week 🤣

And one bonus meme since I didn’t provide this in a timely fashion last week 🙂 

Recommendations 👉🏻

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