Friday Tech News

Good morning and Happy Friday!

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 Services 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 📰

AWS | AWS announces new version of Aurora database that strips out I/O costs

Aqua Security | Aqua Security Launches Industry First Real-Time CSPM

Microsoft GitHub | GitHub Overhauls Code Search Using New Search Engine

OneTrust | OneTrust Unveils Innovations to Enable Responsible Data Use and Trust Intelligence at Scale

Genesys | Genesys Launches Employee Experience Platform

ServiceNow | ServiceNow Cloud Observability Launches as One of Industry's First Integrated End-to-End Observability Solutions for Cloud Applications

• Big announcement

Circle Security | Circle Security Technology Partnership with ForgeRock to Accelerate the Prevention-First Era in Digital Security

NICE | NICE Actimize Wins 2023 FinTech Breakthrough Award for Fraud Prevention Innovation with Advanced Mule Defense Solution

Cloudflare | Cloudflare launches new tools to help manage gen AI security risks

PURE Storage | Pure Storage Enables Virgin Media O2 to Boost Customer Satisfaction, Drive Significant Sustainability Savings

Veza | Veza launches Authorization Platform on the Snowflake Data Cloud

• Very cool! Take a read for sure on what Veza is doing out there.

Zoom | Zoom announces partnership with Anthropic for AI call center services

DialPad | Dialpad Expands AI Footprint through Google Cloud Partnership

DataStax | DataStax simplifies real-time AI deployment with the launch of Luna ML

GitGuardian | GitGuardian Joins Snyk Technology Alliance Partner Program

NetApp | NetApp delivers simplicity and savings to block storage with New All-Flash SAN Array offers ransomware recovery guarantee

IBM | IBM : Announces Launch of IBM Hybrid Cloud Mesh to Help Enterprises Regain Control of their Multicloud Infrastructure

Acronis | Acronis Launches EDR Solution with Potential for AI Integration

OX Security | OX Security Launches OX-GPT, AppSec's First ChatGPT Integration

ServiceNow | ServiceNow Joins AI Wave in Partnership With Microsoft, OpenAI

Barracuda | Barracuda launches enterprise-grade SASE platform for businesses and MSPs

Pepperdata | Pepperdata and AWS join forces to tackle big data cost challenges

New Relic | New Relic launches Generative AI Observability Assistant

ServiceNow | ServiceNow and NVIDIA announce partnership to build generative AI across enterprise IT

• Huge week for SNOW

Boomi | Boomi Changes Integration/Automation with Boomi AI

Aqua Security | Aqua Security collaborates with ServiceNow to accelerate cloud native risk remediation

Nutanix | Nutanix Announces Nutanix Central, Cloud to Edge Management Solution

New Relic | New Relic Launches New Infrastructure Monitoring To End Peak Billing And Screen Swivel

Microsoft Azure | SymphonyAI & Microsoft Azure AI partner on generative AI

Satori | Satori Augments Its Data Security Platform With Posture Management and Data Store Discovery Capabilities to Help Companies Proactively Protect Data

Articles I Liked This Week 💡

InfoWorld | Don't overlook attack surface management

CIO Dive | CISA director wary of technology industry repeating its mistakes with AI

CIO | Top business needs driving IT spending today | CIO

CSO | New ransomware gang RA Group quickly expanding operations

Bleeping Computer | The new info-stealing malware operations to watch out for

DevOps | Google Previews Generative AI Service to Improve Code

CSA | Rampant Cloud Activity Requires Modern Protection | CSA

The Hacker News | New Phishing-as-a-Service Platform Lets Cybercriminals Generate Convincing Phishing Pages

Tech Funding & M&A 💸

Huntress | Huntress Raises $60M to Bring Managed Protection to Identity

• Huntress is a Maryland based Cybersecurity platform that offers solutions such as managed antivirus, threat and ransomware protection for businesses.

ServiceNow | ServiceNow to Acquire Artificial Intelligence Powered Platform G2K

• ServiceNow is a California based SaaS platform that provides solutions such as security, real time analytics, IT service and operations management for businesses.

HUB Security | HUB Security Raises Up to $16 Million in Growth Investment

• HUB Security is an Israeli based Cybersecurity vendor that develops a hardware security module (HSM) and software that offers solutions to cloud, data storage, and blockchain applications.

Polar Security | Sources: IBM is buying Polar Security for $60M to bolster its tech in cloud data management

• Polar Security is a California based cloud native platform that offers automated data security and compliance management for businesses.

Entro | Entro raises $6 million for secrets security and management solution

• Entro is an Israeli based security platform that offers secrets security management for businesses.

Cyren | Data443 Buys Cyren Assets Out of Bankruptcy for Up to $3.5M

• Cyren is a Virginia based platform that provides solutions such as email security, malware detection and threat intelligence for businesses.

Meme of the week 🤣

Recommendations 👉🏻

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