Friday Tech News

Good morning and Happy Friday!

I hope you’ve had a stellar week! It’s been a fun week for me as I got to go to Pinehurst to watch the US Open on Thursday with HPE and Commvault. Very fun times had by all, special shoutout to Curtis Frank for the invite.

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 📰

Apple | Introducing Apple Intelligence, the personal intelligence system that puts powerful generative models at the core of iPhone, iPad, and Mac

• Been waiting for these announcements and very happy to see what Apple is doing as it relates to GenAI incorporation into their products.

Apple | Apple brings ChatGPT to its apps, including Siri

Oracle | Oracle To Partner With Google On New Cloud Offering

• Big partnership announcement from OCI and GCP.

Qlik | Qlik Adopts Snowflake Cortex AI for Enhanced Analytics

Informatica | Informatica Announces New Product Innovations and Enterprise-Grade Generative AI Blueprint for Databricks

• Databricks. So hot right now.

Chronosphere | Chronosphere Tackles Log Data Management Costs & Complexity with Launch of Telemetry Pipeline and Observability Log Controls

• Big fan of what Chronosphere is doing in the Full Stack Observability (FSO) space. Their founders come from building the observability pipe at Uber and know a thing or two about cloud native application monitoring.

Alation | Alation Expands Integration with Snowflake, Enhancing Data Quality for AI Readiness

• More data partnerships. Snowflake is the dominant player but I still see a lot of competition in the space from Databricks

PURE Storage | Mirantis Collaboration with Pure Storage Simplifies Data Management with Kubernetes

CrowdStrike | CrowdStrike Partner Award Winners Recognized at Inaugural Americas Partner Symposium

• Good list to know

CrowdStrike | CrowdStrike Launches Falcon for Insurability Program

• This + their “all you can eat” consumption based plans are interesting to see. Just gotta commit long term to them 😀.

Elastic | Elastic's donation of Universal Profiling agent to OpenTelemetry further solidifies profiling as core telemetry signal

Arista | Arista releases Etherlink platforms for AI networking focused on large clusters

Sonar | Sonar and AWS Expand Collaboration to Drive Adoption of Clean Code Practices

• Really like what SONAR is doing in the testing space. Should be a good partnership for sure.

Codefresh | Codefresh Announces Early Access to Kubernetes Environment Promotion Features with Argo CD

LambdaTest | Lambdatest, Inc.: LambdaTest Introduces Smart UI Figma CLI to Streamline Visual Regression Testing for Design Teams

Cribl | Cribl flies forward with data engine AI copilot for IT and security

Checkmarx | New products from Checkmarx aim to improve code-to-cloud security visibility

Zscaler | Zscaler Strengthens Partnership with Google

Knowbe4 | KnowBe4-MobileMind Integration to Simplify Security Training Management

Transmit | Hype and Transmit Security announce partnership

Stellar Cyber | Stellar Cyber Integrates with Palo Alto Networks Cortex XSOAR to Speed Cybersecurity Investigation Workflow Process from End-to-End

N2WS | N2WS Cross-Cloud Volume Restore for AWS and Azure to Ensure Data Sovereignty, Enhance Security, and Optimize Costs

Obsidian | Obsidian Security Partners with Databricks to Bolster SaaS Data Governance

• More Databricks announcements. They keep coming and I’m a fan of what they’re doing right now.

Nasuni | Nasuni Launches New Brand Identity

Tenable | Coalfire and Tenable Partner to Enable Comprehensive Exposure Management

Zscaler | Zscaler partners with Nvidia to enhance AI-powered cybersecurity

Acronis | Acronis Expands its Security Offering Beyond Endpoint

Databricks | Databricks Launches AI Graphics Competitor to Salesforce, Microsoft

Netskope | Netskope Empowers Organizations To Embrace Modern Collaboration and Productivity While Safeguarding Critical Data with Google Workspace

Semperis | Semperis Launches Delegation Manager to Reduce Risky Identity System Account Permissions Frequently Exploited by Cyberattackers

Automation Anywhere | Automation Anywhere Collaborates with Microsoft to Automate the Impossible by Integrating Enterprise Automation and Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service

OpenAI | OpenAI Clarifies OCI Collaboration Announcement, Highlights Strong Strategic Cloud Partnership With Microsoft

Spl(cisco)unk | Splunk introduces advanced AI enhancements for observability, security and IT service intelligence AI solutions expanded across portfolio to boost digital resilience

• Really interesting to see from Splunk / Cisco. I’m curious how Cisco will invest further (if they do so at all) in Splunk and where they’ll take it as it relates to their EA programs. Is the battle for SIEM no longer lost to Sentinel?

Databricks | Databricks broadly boosts support for AI model training

Databricks | Databricks launches LakeFlow to help its customers build their data pipelines

• Again, DB on fire with some hot announcements this week and last week.

Trend Micro | Trend Micro Launches World’s First Security Solutions for Consumer AI PCs

Sevco | Sevco State of the Cybersecurity Attack Surface Report Finds Enterprises Struggling with Environmental Vulnerabilities

Pulumi | Introducing Pulumi Copilot: Intelligent Cloud Management

• Big fan of what Pulumi is doing. Take a read at their latest release and learn more about how their product could help you enhance visibility into cloud assets.

Articles I Liked This Week 💡

Dark Reading | The CEO Is Next

Business Mole | Nvidia Surpasses Apple to Become Second Most Valuable Company in the World

CNET | Apple's iOS 18 Brings Scheduled Text Messages and More to Your iPhone This Fall

Tech Times | Apple Unveils Private Cloud Compete to Enhance Privacy Features of Its Devices

BBC | Elon Musk unexpectedly drops legal action against OpenAI

Storable | Storable Launches First-Ever Insured-To-Value Technology For Self-Storage Market

Apple | Blog - Private Cloud Compute: A new frontier for AI privacy in the cloud

Tech Funding & M&A 💸

Lacework | Fortinet to Acquire Lacework, Enhancing the Industry's Most Comprehensive Cybersecurity Platform

• Lacework is a California based AI powered (lol love that they threw this in now for a CNAPP) cloud security platform that provides solutions such as CNAPP, threat detection and workload protection for businesses.

• First vendor in the network space to acquire a CNAPP solution

YesWeHack | YesWeHack Raises 26 Million Euros to Accelerate Its Growth and International Expansion

• YesWeHack is a France based bug bounty and VDP platform that offers solutions such as ethical hacking and crowdsourced security for websites and mobile apps.

Cyberhaven | Cyberhaven reels in $88M for its data security platform

• Cyberhaven is a California based cybersecurity platform that provides solutions such as data loss prevention and risk management for businesses.

Open Raven | Formstack Acquires Open Raven

• Open Raven is a California based SaaS platform that provides solutions such as cloud native data discovery, compliance, and data security posture management for enterprises.

Hubble | NetSPI acquires Hubble to address asset and exposure management challenges

• Hubble is a Virginia based cybersecurity asset management platform that provides solutions such as data governance and business continuity for MSPs and MSSPs.

Argilla | Hugging Face to Acquire Argilla for $10M as AI Founders Sell

• Argilla is a Spain based collaboration platform that enables AI engineers and domain experts to build and scale NLP models.

Meme of the week 🤣

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