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Good morning and Happy Friday!
This week’s news sees more vendors embracing GenAI in their products and major discussions around FinOps.
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!
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Phil
OEM News & Updates 📰
I’ve said it before for YEARS. If you’re not using Bing and Edge…you’re missing out. This is the official launch of the browsing feature on ChatGPT. It’s supported by Bing and enables ChatGPT to access the internet and provide more relevant and up-to-date responses to user queries. Currently only available for Plus and Enterprise users of ChatGPT - just hit “browse with Bing” option from the GPT-4 model selector. If you own an Enterprise license and/or pay for GPT-4 please reach out. Would love to interview you and your use cases.
New updates and capabilities for CyberArk with Cloud Workloads and Services. The platform uses risk-based intelligent privilege controls to provide just-in-time access with zero standing privileges to cloud services and workloads.
I see Aviatrix a lot in the wild and I think it’s a legit product. Cool to see that an independent study found that using their distributed firewall can reduce costs by over 30% while achieving a 14X increase in aggregate security as compared to a centralized architecture. Pretty neat stuff.
Everyone is coming out with an LLM. Are you thinking about how you can build a new interface to interact with your data in a secure manner? If so, reach out - I’d love to learn more about your use case(s).
Bunch of new features and updates from Alation. One of them is a new GenAI feature that will help with generating summaries, descriptions, captions, questions, answers, and much more inside the Ataltion platform.
GenAI testing for terraform cloud? Yep. It’ll also allow for the AI testing it does to analyze data from various sources such as Hashi’s Data Catalog which brings together capabilities of a data warehouse and a data lake couple with AI and ML. Very cool.
Streamlines and efficient solution enabling teams to access policy controlled data directly in their Starburst catalog without rewriting queries or changing any workflows. Very cool update and partnership. Data is everything these days.
Check Point | Check Point launches SASE solution
This is the integration of Perimeter 81. They’ve announced Quantum SASE which offers 3 main benefits:
Enhanced Internet Access: Claiming it delivers 2x fasdter internet security performance than competitors by using a hybrid approach.
Zero Trust Access: Provides full mesh connectivity between users, branches, and applications regardless of location or device.
Secured SDWAN: Quantum SASE enables smooth internet and network connectivity by using a unified security gateway with built in SDWAN and IoT security. It’ll also leverage their threat prevention capabilities to prevent cyber attacks.
Check Point | Check Point Launches Horizon Playblocks
Part of the Horizon suite (MDR/MPR) their SOC service now offers XDR and Playblocks, which is the security collaboration platform for security teams. They claim it’s more collaborative and will force interaction between people, processes, and technologies.
Great announcement. This is the integration of Sysdig runtime insights into Docker Scout. It’ll hopefully lead to reductions in vulnerabilities in supply chain, build leaner container images, and automate the detection and prevention of attacks across the entire environment you support.
Identity sprawl is real. Descope’s new feature allows organizations to unify user identities across all customer-facing applications, regardless of their configuration or makeup. It’s called Identity Federation Broker and it enables connections between any combination of applications and identity providers using SAML and OpenID Connect protocols. Basically, users can have a single Login ID and password accessing different apps and orgs will get a 360 degree view of the customer journey.
This feature enables seamless file sync between the cloud and local devices as well as automatic sign-in and launch of OneDrive when a RemoteApp is opened. Only available on Windows 11 currently.
GitGuardian | GitGuardian Unveils "HasMySecretLeaked," Bringing Leak Detection to Every Secret In The DevOps Pipeline
New toolset that allows users to check if their secrets, such as API tokens, cloud creds, and database URLs, have been exposed on GitHub. Definitely read this one.
They’re calling it NetApp Storage on Equinix Metal. It’ll allow customers to run their business critical workloads on dedicated hardware that’s connected to NetAPp’s cloud storage solutions on the Equinix network of data centers. You can choose the storage capacity and performance you need and only pay for what you use. It also can connect to public cloud services (AWS, Azure and GCP currently).
I see Atlassian a lot in the wild. Compass is a new platform that aims to improve the dev experience by providing a centralized and standardized way to manage and monitor software components and their health. It’s integrated with GItHub, AWS, and Datadog, plus Atlassian’s other products.
Palo Alto Networks | Palo Alto Networks Revolutionizes Cloud Security With Code to Cloud Intelligence
Big announcement from PANW. This is part of their Darwin release (saying this is a Darwin moment in Cloud Security) which sounds pretty promising. Code to Cloud intelligence is “claiming” to be the industry’s first integrated solution that connects insights from the code level to the cloud level using Bing’s search engine and AI powered features to access the latest information and insights from the internet. It aims to simplify cloud security and improve productivity and collaboration across dev, ops, and security teams. Will learn more and report back.
Articles I Liked This Week 💡
SD Times | Gartner’s top 10 tech trends for 2024 highlight desire to future-proof technology investments
I was lucky enough to catch the Gartner Symposium Opener on AI this week on Twitter and they made some really solid points around companies needing help with security, governance, and policy creation around acceptable use of AI.
If you don’t know about AI in FinOps yet, please reach out. I’m happy to explain the ecosystem to you and what you should be evaluating.
Information Week | Harmonizing the CIO and CISO Roles to Bolster Security
Here are my key takeaways:
GenAI is the hottest trend in the cloud market. The major cloud providers are competing to develop LLMs, platform, and services to enable enterprises to create and use Gen AI applications.
Cloud prices are likely to increase in the future.
FinOps truly helps and is necessary.
Security remains critical even while looking for cost optimization.
Tech Funding & M&A 💸
Next Service | NetSuite Acquires Next Technik
Next Service is an Australia based IT firm that develops software products that provide solutions including inventory and asset management for businesses.
Section is a Colorado based PaaS platform that provides solutions such as website optimization, data security, cost management, and DNS hosting for businesses.
Meme of the week 🤣
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