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 📰

Microsoft Azure | Azure Active Directory B2B Collaborations Now Work Across Microsoft Clouds

Cloudian | Cloudian Integration of HyperStore Object Storage with Veeam Data Platform Including Veeam Backup & Replication V12

Medallia | Medallia Launches Experience Orchestration

Radware | Oncore and Radware Partnership: Revolutionizing the Digital Transformation Landscape 

AWS | RingCentral and AWS enter strategic partnership 

DELL | Dell PowerEdge XR8000, XR7620 and XR5610 Edge/Telco Servers Launched 

Red Hat | Red Hat unveils new, no-cost Partner Subscriptions 

Red Hat | Red Hat, Inc.: Red Hat Expands Collaboration With NVIDIA to Advance AI and 5G Solutions Across the Hybrid and Multi Cloud

Cisco | Federated Wireless and Cisco Collaborate 

Snowflake | Snowflake Launches Telecom Data Cloud to Help TSPs Accelerate Digital Transformation 

Microsoft Azure | Microsoft introduces next-gen hybrid cloud platform 'Azure Operator Nexus' | Business Standard News 

• this is another mention of Telecom related networks moving to the cloud and I'm seeing this more and more from major OEMs.

Thales | Thales to hire more than 12,000 people worldwide in 2023 to support its growth trajectory

• Great to see a hiring story instead of a firing story this week. I'll try and report on these more too.

Intel | Cisco, Intel collaborate to build private 5G services 

DELL | Dell Technologies unveils partnerships to ramp acceleration of cloud-native technologies

Immuta | Immuta and ServiceNow partner to tackle cloud data visibility crisis 

Orca Security | Orca Security launches new Data Security Posture Management capabilities

• They're late to the game on this but, will be interesting to see what the offering looks like.

Informatica | Informatica Launches the Industry's Only Free, AI-powered Solution for Data Practitioners 

Netscout | NETSCOUT SYSTEMS, INC. launched nGenius® Enterprise Performance Management solution

Microsoft | Microsoft brings the new Bing to Windows 11 and launches Phone Link for iOS

Crowdstrike | CrowdStrike Positioned as a Leader in 2022 Gartner Magic

• What's more interesting is where Microsoft is positioned

Cohesity | Cohesity Named a 2023 Leader in the Omdia Universe: Protecting and Recovering Data in the Cloud Era 

Talend | Talend Data Fabric adds data observability features, connector updates

Fastly | Fastly Launches Managed Security Service to Protect Enterprises from Rising Web Application Attacks 

Dremio | At Subsurface LIVE 2023 Dremio Launches New Data Lakehouse Features and Sees Exponential Community Growth

Sysdig | Sysdig Launches Wireshark Foundation 

AWS | AWS Eyes Microsoft-Backed ChatGPT With New AI Partnership 

Snowflake | Snowflake plans to hire 1,000-plus workers this year as other tech companies cut

WatchGuard | WatchGuard® Technologies launched ThreatSync 

Zylo | Zylo Launches App Overview To Quickly Uncover Software Savings

Cohesity | IBM and Cohesity Announce New Data Security and Resiliency Collaboration Advancing Enterprises' Ability to Fight the Impacts of Breaches and Cyberattacks 

Veeam | Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 v7 delivers advanced protection against cyber attacks and outages

PURE Storage | Pure Storage launches FlashBlade//E with unstructured data storage

Microsoft 365 | What’s New in Microsoft Teams | February 2023

Articles I Liked This Week 💡

MSN | White House releases ambitious cyber strategy calling for more regulation of vulnerable sectors 

CSO | Well-funded security systems fail to prevent cyberattacks in US and Europe

Forbes | Microsoft Makes Azure Kubernetes Service Secure To Run Multi-Tenant Workloads 

Techradar | You won't be able to escape Microsoft Defender on Windows soon 

• This one spoke to me. I see E3 and E5 everywhere and more and more businesses looking to leverage the power of Defender.

Eweek | Azure Synapse vs. Snowflake: Data Warehouse and Data Management Comparison 

FinOps Israel | "Cost-aware" culture is hurting FinOps 

CIO | The CIO’s new C-suite mandate 

Tech Funding & M&A 💸

Wiz | Wiz Raises $300 Million In Series D 

• Quite astounding to see Wiz have this sort of a round while overall funding is down significantly in Q1. If you've been paying attention to their meteoric rise, you'll know that big things are likely in store here.

• Wiz is an Israel based cybersecurity platform that provides solutions such as cloud security, incident response, and risk analytics for enterprises.

Temporal | Temporal Investors Expand Funding with $75M Round 

• Temporal is a Washington based open-source microservices orchestration platform that allows developers to build, deploy, and manage cloud applications.

Ondat | Akamai Technologies To Acquire Cloud Storage Technology Company Ondat 

• Ondat is an England based K8s native platform that offers solutions such as cloud storage, DevOps, and data compression for businesses.

HPE | Hewlett Packard Enterprise fortifies network security with acquisition of Security Service Edge provider Axis Security \

• Axis Security is a cloud security provider specializing in SASE.

Trackd | trackd Secures $3.35MM Seed Funding to Bring Its Novel Approach to Vulnerability Remediation to the Enterprise Security Market 

• Trackd is a Virgina based cybersecurity platform that provides solutions such as vulnerability remediation and patch management.

Meme of the week 🤣

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