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Insights, Updates, and Trends in Enterprise Technology 02/07/2025

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Phil Moroni
February 07, 2025

 

Good morning and welcome to another edition of Friday Tech News! I hope you’ve had a wonderful week.

How are you prioritizing which agentic ai bot to listen to? With the announcements this week, that’s the question I’m asking. The amount of Agentic AI related updates this week is insane if you actually read through these updates. I’m wondering, between all of them, which one do you even listen to first? They all serve a purpose it seems, sure, but how do you know what to listen to and why? How much of it do you trust? How do you even verify their suggestions? All questions I have.

Anyway - big updates this week in tech as noted above. Take a read, and let me know what you think by replying to this email.

Have a wonderful weekend!

Phil

OEM News & Updates 📰

  • ServiceNow’s new AI Agent Orchestrator acts as a control tower, enabling teams of specialized AI agents to work together across tasks, systems, and departments to achieve specific goals.

  • The new AI Agent Studio allows orgs to create and deploy custom AI agents integrated with enterprise-wide workflows and data through and intuitive no-code interface.

  • The new AI Agents are trained super well and excel in driving productivity. They can handle complex and ambiguous tasks that traditional automation cannot solve for currently.

  • It’s sick. Better responses for sure on this end when using it for research and learning.

  • The o3-mini model is designed to perform efficient and reliable reasoning for STEM related problems (math, science, programming). It’s tuned to fact check itself before providing results.

  • The model is priced more accessibly than others. The model is priced at $0.55 per cached input tokens and $4.40 per million output tokens. That means its 63% cheaper than its predecessor, o1-mini.

  • Check Point has introduced six new AI-powered capabilities within its Infinity Platform to simplify security operations, strengthen threat prevention, and accelerate zero trust implementation across hybrid environments.

  • The new Quantum Policy Insights and Quantum Policy Auditor use AI to analyze security policies, recommend improvements, enforce zero trust, and ensure alignment with corporate guidelines. Basically reducing the level of reading everyone needs to do?

  • They also introduced features like Playblocks and AI CoPilot that leverage AI for security automation, threat prevention, and operational simplicity.

  • TotalAppSec integrates API Security, Web App scanning, and AI-driven malware detection into a single risk-based approach providing a comprehensive view of appsec risk and posture.

  • The solution offers clear visibility into web apps and APIs, enabling security teams to discover known, unknown, and shadow assets.

  • It automates vulnerability remediation processes by integrating with CI/CD pipelines and ITSM systems (SNOW & JIRA) to help reduce attack surface.

  • Zoho has introduced the Zia Agent Studio alongside pre-built Zia Agents and an Agent Marketplace, enabling enterprises to create, deploy, and distribute autonomous digital agents via a no-code/low-code platform for various business functions. 

  • The pre-built Zia Agents—such as Account Manager, SDR, HR, Customer Support, IT Help Desk, and SalesCoach Agents—are designed for seamless integration across Zoho’s extensive suite of over 100 products and will eventually work with third-party applications. 

  • This launch is part of Zoho’s broader AI strategy, leveraging its deep engineering expertise, robust global infrastructure, and record customer growth to offer secure, privacy-compliant AI-powered automation that enhances operational efficiency. 

  • Adobe Acrobat AI Assistant now features new generative AI capabilities that simplify contract review by automatically recognizing contracts, summarizing key terms, and offering one-click citations to help users verify complex language quickly. 

  • The enhancements work with both digital and scanned documents, supporting the full contract workflow—from initial review and commenting to secure sharing and e-signatures—thus streamlining the entire process for consumers and businesses alike. 

  • Built on Adobe’s deep PDF expertise and responsible AI framework, these contract intelligence features ensure data security by not training on customer data, and they’re available as an add-on for Acrobat users at US$4.99 per month across desktop, web, and mobile platforms. 

  • Their AI Assistant, Davis, now provides NL problem summaries and suggest specific remediation steps, making it easier to troubleshoot technical issues.

  • The new LiveDebugger tool also helps devs collect the technical data needed to fix app malfunctions without having to reproduce the incident.

  • They introduced a CSPM feature - which begs the question, do you need to rethink what your CSPM is even providing you at this point if it’s a feature now for Dynatrace. The CSPM feature enables people to centrally monitor their cloud environments like Wiz.

  • New Relic has announced the industry’s only observability solution for monitoring DeepSeek.

  • Includes other popular providers as well (including my favorite, LangChain)

  • I like the team at Satori. Good people

  • Glad this wasn’t an AI article.

  • Satori has launched a one stop data security platform that covers the entire lifecycle of customer data. It automates data discovery, risk assessment, granular access control, and risk mitigation across various cloud environments.

  • It assigns risk scores to data stores and generates security alerts for risky configs and sensitive data activity.

  • Provides a centralized view of data security risks for security teams to monitor and manage alerts.

Articles I Liked This Week 💡

  • they also did away with a major statement on their use of responsible AI.

  • Big news if this does in fact block the deal (which is looking likely). I really thing the consolidation isn’t a bad thing. We’re just talking about ridiculous numbers at this point. Big tech has often bought other big tech names (Just look at IBM’s history). I respect both of these companies and what they’re doing…I believe more innovation is needed and bringing together the minds of the individuals at both these orgs could lead to some major advancements.

  • A ton of investment is going into building AI Datacenters for the future. The need for scalable infrastructure (including networking) to support AI workloads is growing significantly and this article talks about the needs of the enterprise network. I liked this stat: A McKinsey study predicts that 60-70% of AI workloads will shift to real-time inference by 2030, requiring low-latency connectivity and advanced compute capabilities. To me, it signals something that I didn’t think I understood fully. We’ll always be in a state of digital transformation - even the big players that are doing things in modern leading practices fashion. How are you preparing your organization for the future? Or is the question, what future are you even preparing for at this point?

  • everyone on the internet needs to know about this IMO.

  • What a pivot?

Tech Funding, M&A, and Loss 💸

Rebranded this week to include layoff announcements. I think it’s important that people understand what’s happening overall in the ecosystem.

  • Very cool to see an NC company in Tech get acquired. Congrats to all involved. They develop a platform designed to help DevOps, Platform Engineering, and SRE pros by improving cost-effectiveness and stability of K8s environments.

  • They’re still at it - love to see it.

  • BladeBridge is from New York and specializes in helping enterprises migrate from legacy data warehouses to modern data platforms.

  • if you haven’t been following the controversy here, it’s noteworthy.

  • Semgrep is now based in San Francisco and develops and AppSec platform that includes tools for SCA, Static Code Analysis, and Secrets Scanning.

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Layoff | SFDC

Layoff | Workday

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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!

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