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Good morning and Happy Friday! This was the slowest week is tech news that I’ve tracked in my career. Take a quick read and have a great weekend! Hope you had a great 4th of July holiday that was restful and relaxing.
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:
Cloud Computing, Security, Trends
Developer & Security Tools
Networking & Infrastructure Tools
End User Tools & Workspace Tech
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 📰
We had 34 announcements last week across the industry as opposed to 3 this week.
Bringing the power of AI into the Snowflake Data Cloud, this will be a great partnership for customers to innovate on top of.
Qlik | Qlik Launches Suite of OpenAI Connectors to Strengthen Data and Insights in Qlik Applications
New connectors for GPT3 and other AI tooling within Qliks application. Should help with enhanced data literacy and decision making.
Cloud Native data protection against multiple providers is a great thing. I see a lot of NetApp deployments going into the cloud so this is a great announcement from NetApp.
Articles I Liked This Week 💡
FinOpsX was last week with some huge announcements. I hope to see more companies adopt new and emerging best practices from a FinOps perspective such as using AI tooling and services.
Bleeping Computer | Cisco warns of bug that lets attackers break traffic encryption
The vulnerability only impacts certain Cisco Nexus 9K lines only if they are in ACI mode, are part of a Multi-Site topology, have CloudSec encryption feature enabled, and are running firmware 14.0 or later releases.
CalpysoAI just raised a round to help companies understand and govern AI use in the enterprise today. These types of tools are going to keep evolving and I’m curious to see how other providers in the AI space will use AI to combat these types of threats.
I liked this article because it offers great practical advice, one of the main points being to enable automation in killing under utilized resources. Automation is a must these days and if you aren’t thinking about it from the start you might want to give me a call 🙂.
CSO Online | Cybersecurity startups to watch for in 2023
Tracking these vendors for sure, but good to see some new and emerging companies I had not heard of making this list. It’s by no means extensive so if you have any questions, reach out and let me know.
CIO Dive | The role for AI in cybersecurity
I liked this article because it’s a hot topic in Cybersecurity. I thought the article offered practical advice and options for both new practitioners and those who are red teaming against generative AI use in the enterprise.
Tech Funding & M&A 💸
Preflight | Applitools Acquires Preflight
Preflight is an Illinois based test automation platform specializing in low code test automation.
Meme of the week 🤣
Recommendations 👉🏻
This is a section that I intend to build out more! Know fantastic newsletter resources for information? Please let me know so I can start linking appropriate reads here!
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