Friday Tech News

06/21/2024 - Storage, Identity, and AI Updates

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Phil Moroni
June 21, 2024

Good morning and Happy Friday!

Back again with more updates in the tech world, this time, with more insight and summarization behind the articles. Let me know if that resonates with you by responding to this email!

Hope you had a great Father’s Day and a great week at work. Gearing up for the end of the month and turn toward July 4th, we should expect to see quieter news in tech despite events from PURE and HPE in Vegas this past week.

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.

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  2. Developer & Security Tools

  3. Networking & Infrastructure Tools

  4. End User Tools & Workspace Tech

  5. Emerging Technologies and Future Concepts

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Phil

OEM News & Updates 📰

  • Y’all know I’m a huge fan of vulnerability remediation, Cyberstarts, and Dazz, right? Merav was even gracious enough to grant me an interview a year or so ago which you can find here.

  • ReversingLabs is known for File and Software Security.

  • Integration into Spectra Intelligence Platform: RL’s Spectra Intelligence Platform will be integrated into Dazz’s platform. This will provide for advanced context for faster vulnerability prioritization and remediation.

  • Currently in private preview for Dazz customers.

  • I’m a fan of what Permiso is doing as a platform. Check them out. This is probably useful 🙂.

  • Privacy being in my opinion, the utmost concern here, I think it’s smart to delay and test further until both users and market sentiments adjust to being recorded full time.

  • Interesting to see as this comes in the form of Credits. I believe there will only be a few main players in this space and these startups will be gobbled up much like we see in cybersecurity.

  • Companies I think will vie for dominance in the AI space in the coming years are:

    • NVIDIA

    • Apple

    • OpenAI

    • Google

    • Anthropic

    • Hugging Face

    • Cohere

  • Significant growth compared to late 2023 where they reported $1.6B.

  • $200M comes from MSFT Azure AI Models.

  • Lastest and most powerful AI model from Anthropic.

  • Boasts improvement in speed, understanding nuance, humor, complex instructions, and high-quality content creation with a natural tone. Impressive.

  • Can also write, edit, and execute code.

  • Introducing the “Artifacts” feature, which allows users to generate and interact with text documents or code in real time.

  • The arms race between AI vendors is heating up with Anthropic beating Google and OpenAI in a performance test.

  • Enhanced security of multi-cloud environments, which, most places are today like it or not.

  • Expect it as a line item in the popular platform / new module.

  • Integration promises improved security and scalability across network and application layers with comprehensive L7 inspection and network segmentation from L3-L7.

  • Splunk introduced new AI tools and assistants at splunk.conf24. These are aimed at accelerating routine tasks and improving digital resilience.

  • Announced Enterprise Security 8.0 with a unified interface for threat detection and response + integration with Cisco security products.

  • New data management suite was unveiled offering robust visibility an data ownership across the Splunk Cloud Platform and Observability Cloud.

  • All the focus was on Digital Resilience. Splunk is prioritizing the important of FSO and security technology in reducing unplanned downtime.

  • AI powered, fully managed web application firewall to protection web apps and APIs.

  • Prevention first approach: CloudGuard WAFaaS is designed to prevent cyber threats with AI based detection, bot prevention, file security, and rate limiting.

  • Part of the Infinity Platform which provides comprehensive application and API protection including DDoS prevention and automated cert management.

  • New feature alert! This will automate the onboarding process and reduce time and complexity end users face.

  • Significant advancement in securing identity and managing them afterwards.

  • Expected to cut mapping time by 70%.

  • Address challenge of managing tons of apps.

  • Available by June 30th at no charge for users of Identity Security Cloud Business and Business Plus.

  • Knowbe4 has collaborated with Microsoft on the Phishing Alert Button, also known now as your favorite new TLA, the PAB.

  • The PAB is integrated into Outlook Home Ribbon for single click usage.

  • Available across versions of Outlook including for web.

  • Showcases who MSFT likes in the learning / training space for EU awareness IMHO.

  • Yet again, I’m talking about DB.

  • Alation Open Data Quality Initiative aims to increase data reliability and streamline compliance through improved data governance and lineage visibility.

  • New tools like Trust Flags, Impact Analysis, and Comprehensive Data Profiling are aimed at ensuring data accuracy and integrity.

  • This collab will give users a single source of truth for high quality, AI-ready data. This will then help in smoother adoption of the Data Intelligence Platform overall.

  • Big fan of this team. I think the Datadog platform is unique and offers a best-in-class approach to observability and security for the cloud.

  • New from Datadog comes App Builder. App Builder is a low code dev tool for creating self-service apps and integrating them into monitoring stacks. The Low Code platform should be smart and intuitive to use, offering users efficiency gains with prebuilt UI components, blueprints, connections, and custom JavaScript support.

  • Huge amount of integrations. App Builder includes connections to Datadog sources and 550+ actions for various tools and platforms.

  • Also from Datadog this week, check this out.0

  • You all know how I feel about CAPS LOCKED brands.

  • I haven’t seen SPHERE in the wild yet, but this looks cool.

  • SPHERE laughed Intelligent Discovery which is all about Privileged Accounts. It’ll support CyberArk PAM Solutions and helps organizations with audit compliance, scoping, and identifying risks in privileged accounts.

  • They’re trying to enhance identity security through automation.

  • New partnership aims to enhance customers’ data ownership and visibility.

  • New, modern SIEM support.

  • Aims for holistic security operations for detection, prevention, remediation, and response against attacks.

  • Cribl has introduced an Ai powered tool designed to enhance IT and security data management at scale.

  • Fully integrated across Cribl’s product suite, offering new features like auto-generated insights, dashboards, and the ability to generate code functions and pipelines using natural language. Whoa. Big release.

  • Cluster Mesh offers a lightweight service mesh solution that simplifies microservices communication without the compliexity and latency of traditional service meshes.

  • Provides seamless connectivity, service discovery, observability, and multi-cluster security controls across K8s clusters.

  • New SLA’s and service tiers with 10 concurrent SLAs.

  • New SLA’s focus on Cyber Recovery and Resilience.

  • Still known for Evergreen program for storage upgrades.

  • Pure has also introduced Copilot for Storage, allowing users to manage storage environments through natural language inputs.

  • Leverages customer data insights for complex tasks.

  • Innovative feature designed to simplify complex storage problem solving and providing automated assistance for issues like latency across arrays.

  • Flexible and dynamic purchasing options.

  • Main feature here is the launch of HPE Private Cloud AI which combines NVIDIA AI capabilities with HPE’s storage, computing, and cloud services.

  • Integrating Gemini models into their AI assistant, the assistant is embedded in JetBrains’ IDE's offers code generation, issue fixes, refactoring, and can answer specific questions as well as generate tests and documentation. Pretty fascinating. Big fan of JetBrains.

  • AI models are locally run on developer’s device.

  • Some cool feature updates include the release of the screenshot tool formerly known as web capture.

  • If you aren’t using Edge, you should seriously give it a try. Copilot is super helpful and built in.

  • Kubecost announces the release of 2.3, which is packed with new features, enhanced stability, and quality improvements overall.

  • New dashboard to help users identify and reduce wasted spend in k8s environments. Also offers cost vs utilization views.

  • 10x improvement in data ingestion speeds.

  • For enterprise users, the release adds PostgreSQL integration for easier data export.

Articles I Liked This Week 💡

  • Great insights, very interesting read especially with claims of most of this work not being in production yet.

  • Anyone ever tried canceling adobe? Hard work.

  • I always find these articles fascinating. It’s crazy to me that they’re able to literally write to people and say, “here’s how we did this” and nobody can literally find these people. Crazy.

Tech Funding & M&A 💸

  • Decagon is a California based GenAI platform that provides solutions such as customer support, data integration, and agent assistance for businesses.

  • MicroStrategy is a Virgina based AI powered BI platform that provides solutions such as embedded analytics and data monetization for businesses.

  • Semperis is a New Jersey based security platform that offers solutions such as threat detection and disaster recovery for identities for businesses.

  • Entro Security is an Israel based Cybersecurity platform that provides solutions such as non-human identity lifecycle management and detection for businesses.

  • PointFive is an Israeli based cost visibility and remediation platform that provides solutions such as workflow enablement and rate optimization for businesses.

  • Aim Security is an Israeli cybersecurity platform that offers solutions in the AI security space for businesses.

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