Friday Tech News

9/1/2023

Author

Phil Moroni
September 01, 2023

Good morning and Happy Friday!

A lot of great updates this week, especially from Google. They had their annual big conference, Google Cloud Next ‘23 and I’ve dedicated a section for awards and announcements from that conference in this weeks edition.

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 📰

  • They’ve combined the benefits of SDWAN and SASE in a single cloud based service. Aryaka is a great product from what I’m told but I’ve never had any experience in working / seeing them in the wild.

  • Cloud marketplaces are the way of the future for deployment of software. Good to see from Ermetic - definitely a product to watch in the CNAPP space.

  • Rubrik AI Powered Cyber Recovery combines the advantages of SDWAN and SASE to provide a cloud-based service that can restore critical data and vms with minimal data loss and downtime. It uses LLMs to generate recommended task lists and guided workflows that simplify the recovery process for administrators, which also helps with making decisions in a timely fashion.

  • Honestly no idea what to make of this. They claim that the partnership will delivery the industry’s most complete hybrid cloud solution platform to simplify customer operations, but to me it adds confusion in the product portfolio. What’s happening to Hyperflex?

  • Seeq and Databricks join forces to enable customers to easily access, process, and analyze time series data from industrial assets in a cloud based service.

  • Enhanced security, privacy, performance, and customization features for businesses that want to use ChatGPT for various tasks and workflows. It’ll also allow you to own and control your data, manage users and usage, and access unlimited and faster GPT-4 models. I’m interested in talking to anyone who’s going to buy in!

  • Meter, a NaaS provider has partnered with Cloudflare here to launch Meter DNS Security, a content filtering tool for enterprises leveraging Cloudflares security Engine with Meter’s hardware etc…

  • New from Tenable, it’s a DAST feature that allows users to scan web apps and APIs for vulnerabilities. Great enhancement to the platform if you’re a customer of theirs today. THe feature enables users to set up new scans easily, discover known vulnerabilities and cyber hygiene issues quickly, and identify all web apps and APIs owned by an organization.

  • Domo AI is a suite of tools and services that enables users to easily build, deploy, and manage AI and ML models on the Domo platform. It offers a low-code/no-code approach that simplifies that process of creating and applying AI and ML models to various business scenarios (forecasting, anomaly detection, sentiment analysis) and it also provides a transparent environment that allows users to share, review, and improve their models with other stakeholders.

  • Exciting from Kubecost. Kubecost Cloud is a cloud based service that enables users to monitor and control their K8s spending across multiple clusters, cloud, and regions. It also integrates with various platforms such as AWS, Azure, GCP, VMware, OpenShift, Rancher, and more. It’s a unique and innovative solution that addresses the challenges of managing k8s costs in a complex and dynamic environment.

  • The integration here allows users to extend their CMDB to include application data such as dependencies, performance, and health. The integration also enables users to automate the discovery and mapping of applications and their components, as well as synchronize the data between Bionic and SNOW. Very exciting stuff from Bionic.

Google Cloud Next Updates & Awards

Articles I Liked This Week 💡

  • Favorite article of the week. Few key takeaways are that CNAPP’s are critical - 75% of orgs surveyed have implemented or planned to implement them in their cloud environments.

  • Security teams face real significant challenges with prioritization, DevOps integration, and IR.

  • Misconfigurations remain a top issue and concern for a lot of the folks who are boots on the ground

  • Good to see OpenAI’s announcement this week with more control over their application for enterprise users. Be careful!

Tech Funding & M&A 💸

  • Rockset is a California based search and analytics database that enables developers to index and process queries.

  • Fig is a California based SaaS platform that enables developers to autocomplete their code from the command line.

Cyberillium | CYE Acquires Baseline

  • Cyberillium is an Israel based Cybersecurity platform that offers solutions such as vulnerability research and adversarial simulation for businesses.

  • Osirium is an England based cybersecurity platform that offers solutions such as IT automation, endpoint and privileged access management for businesses.

  • AI21 is an Israel based generative AI and product development platform that enables software developers to build generative AI and LLMs.

Meme of the week 🤣

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Recommendations 👉🏻

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