Friday Tech News

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 📰

Wiz | SentinelOne and Wiz Announce Exclusive Partnership to Deliver End to End Cloud Security 

Code 42 | Code42 and SentinelOne Partner to Uncover Risk to Data and Accelerate Response to Insider Threats 

Fivetran | Fivetran Launches New Features for its Comprehensive Data Movement Platform

CrowdStrike | 2023 CrowdStrike Global Threat Report Reveals Sophisticated Adversaries Re-exploiting and Re-weaponizing Patched Vulnerabilities and Moving Beyond Ransomware

PURE Storage | Pure Storage launches FlashBlade//E with unstructured data storage

Vonage | Vonage Adds AI To Video API

SentinelOne | SentinelOne Ranks Highest Across All Customer Use Cases in the Gartner® 2022 Critical Capabilities for Endpoint Protection Platforms 

Cohesity | IBM and Cohesity Announce Data Security and Resiliency Collaboration

Microsoft | Microsoft Launches AI-Incorporated Business Tool 

Palo Alto Networks | Palo Alto Networks Launches Identity Threat Detection and Response Module for XSIAM Platform

Atlassian | Atlassian job cuts total 500 as tech industry pain intensifies

Bitsight | Schneider Electric and BitSight announce partnership to improve detection of Operational Technology (OT) cybersecurity exposure

Google | Google Officially Launches New UI for Its Productivity Apps 

Microsoft | Microsoft launches "Florence" AI computer vision model, in preview

AWS | AWS, Lightspeed launch AccelerateHer 2023 to nurture women-led startups

Salesforce | Salesforce To Add ChatGPT To Slack As Part Of OpenAI Partnership

JFrog | JFrog Releases Self-Hosted Advanced Security Solution, Enabling Hybrid Software Supply Chain Protection 

GRAID | Graid Technology Announces Massive Performance Increase with New SupremeRAID Software Release 

Rapid | Rapid Introduces API Hub for Business

DELL | Dell unveils refreshed XPS Desktop, XPS 15 and XPS 17 with 13th Gen Intel Core processors and Nvidia 40 Series GPUs

Five9 | Qualtrics and Five9 Partner to Improve the Contact Center Experience for Agents and Customers

Cisco | Cisco and Speck Design Launch New, Interactive UCS X-Series Experience Model

JupiterOne | Greater visibility and faster incident response with Tines and JupiterOne

Microsoft | Announcing the General Availability of Azure Virtual Desktop Insights at Scale

AWS | AWS Key Management Service now supports FIPS 140-2 enabled interface VPC endpoint 

Articles I Liked This Week 💡

CIO Dive | Cost control edges out cybersecurity as top cloud concern

• Called it earlier this year. Really interesting to see these results from Flexera this year. If you need a copy of the 2023 state of cloud, please reach out!

CIO Dive | Southwest lands on AWS as preferred cloud for modernization push 

• Called it earlier this year as well. Glad to see they're taking large scale change seriously and looking at AWS to help.

CRN | 6 Cloud Computing Trends: Costs, Hybrid Cloud, Economy

• More coverage on the State of Cloud 2023. Mark is a great writer and I like his work.

VentureBeat | Modernizing identity access management with zero trust 

InfoWorld | 3 ways to screw up a multicloud deployment 

Tech Funding & M&A 💸

Morpheus Data | SAIC Makes $5M Investment In Cloud Automation Provider Morpheus Data - Science Applications Intl (NYSE:SAIC)

• Morpheus Data is a Colorado based hybrid cloud management platform that offers solutions such as container management and cloud migration for enterprises.

Revelstoke | Revelstoke Announces $20M Series B Funding Following Exponential Growth in Its First Year in Market

• Revelstoke is a California based SOAR platform that provides solutions such as security information, password vaulting, and event management for businesses.

Cado | Cloud security platform lands $20M to automate incident response in the cloud 

• Cado is an England based cybersecurity platform that offers solutions such as cloud forensics and incident response for businesses.

Meme of the week 🤣

Shoutout to my friend Todd Merriman for sending this one over. It's tougher than you think finding memes every week! I had a great laugh at this one and if you have memes I should be incorporating, don't hesitate to reach out and send them my way via email or thru LinkedIn.

Recommendations 👉🏻

This is a section that I intend to build out more! Know fantastic newsletter resources for information? Please let me know so I can start linking appropriate reads here!