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 📰

  • New Service Alert 🚨! This is cool. It’ll automatically collect, manage, and store data from AWS and other sources in a data lake. The service also normalizes data across 50 enterprise security solutions to note.

  • New Service Alert 🚨! Now generally available, Azure Linux can be deployed in new or existing AKS clusters as well as in hybrid and multi-cloud scenarios using Azure ARC and Azure Stack. It also supports various software vendors including HashiCorp, Palo Alto Networks, and Dynatrace.

  • New Service Alert 🚨! Ask their new generative AI analyst anything in the Falcon platform for elevated productivity. First time I’ve seen “AI Powered IOA” referenced anywhere.

  • Part of Red Hat’s overall efforts to improve developer experience on OpenShift and Kubernetes, this is a great announcement that aims to increase developer productivity, foster internal collaboration, and ensure security and governance are up to enterprise best practices.

  • This enables developers to streamline the testing of cybersecurity features in mobile apps.

  • First of its kind identity security web browser that enables organizations to better protect against attacks with a flexible identity based approach to securing employee and third party access to enterprise resources.

  • Automatic updates were applied on May 20 and 21st to all affected appliances. CVE-2023-2868.

  • This uses proprietary behavioral-based algorithms to detect and mitigate Web DDoS Tsunami attacks. Also features high-scale infrastructure, cookieless browsing, data exfiltration protections, password replacement, and more.

  • Service Accounts are a new feature that enable users to run automated workloads in Grafana, such as dashboard provisioning, configuration, or report generation.

  • This is a new fraud detection and risk management service to prevent account takeover and fake accounts while solving for MFA fatigue on end users.

  • It feels like this is just the beginning to me for NVIDIA. They’re crushing it and with AI in the news every day, I think their relevance will only continue to grow.

  • ExtraHop securely feeds detections identified on the network to the customer’s AWS security Lake where they can access and take action with ExtraHop data as well as data from other sources, for faster threat detection, investigation, and response. This will enable customers to overcome visibility and coverage gaps in the cloud, leverage network intelligence for security analytics and automation, and streamline security operations with a unified data platform.

  • This partnership will allow customers who utilize Databricks’ lakehouse platform, AI capabilities and MLflow offerings to deploy APoria’s ML observability platform directly on top of Databricks, without duplicating any data from their lakehouse or any other data sources.

  • This allows customers to access and monitor security log data and events along with other telemetry data such as metrics, traces, and errors. It gives a more holistic view of overall security posture to help detect and remediate incidents faster and more efficiently.

  • Providing customers with enhanced AI capabilities using SageMaker, JumpStart, and Amazon Bedrock.

  • Solid announcement from CockroachDB. If you’re a customer today, this should be welcomed news for your deployment.

Articles I Liked This Week 💡

  • I liked how this article was not about spending more or less on IT but spending smarter and ways to identify how to do that.

  • Harsh title, but begs a quick read.

  • This is a good article that gives practical advice on measures you can take to improve your overall BCDR readiness. I liked it because it didn’t mention investing in a product but focused on the “people” elements as well as some technology elements that reside behind a BCDR plan. How are you shifting your BCDR plans with your moves to cloud platforms?

Tech Funding & M&A 💸

  • Riverbed is a California based IT firm that develops software products offering solutions such as infrastructure monitoring for businesses.

  • Armorblox is a California based generative AI platform that offers solutions such as threat protection and data loss prevention for businesses.

  • This is the third acquisition from Cisco this year I believe

  • Dig Security is an Israel based cybersecurity platform that offers cloud data security posture management solutions for businesses.

  • MindsDB is a California based AI powered data science platform that offers solutions including predictive analytics and data management for businesses.

Meme of the week 🤣

Recommendations 👉🏻

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