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 and procurement 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 📰

Microsoft | Microsoft Shoots for AI Integration As Layoffs at the Company Continue 

Code42 | Code42’s Insider Risk Management Products are Now Available in AWS Marketplace

Satori | Satori Expands Support to NoSQL Databases; Streamlines Secure Data Access for MongoDB

Orca Security | Orca Security deploys ChatGPT to secure the cloud with AI 

JupiterOne | What's new in JupiterOne: powerful, intuitive queries 

Ermetic | Cloud security startup Ermetic lays off 17% of team 

NetApp | NetApp announced winner in the ‘Best Enterprise Flash Storage’ category at the CIO Choice Awards IT Voice 

AWS | AWS Launches Second Infrastructure Region in Australia 

Arctic Wolf | Arctic Wolf IR JumpStart Retainer addresses accessibility challenges for organizations

Arize | Arize Debuts Data Lake Connectors

Data Theorem | Data Theorem’s Leading Software Supply Chain Security Solution Wins 2022 CyberSecured Award for Attack Surface Management 

PagerDuty | PagerDuty to lay off 7% of staff as tech job cuts continue 

Microsoft | Microsoft services including Teams, Outlook and Xbox Live go down across the world 

Hitachi | Hitachi Vantara and Model9 Collaborate to Modernize the Mainframe

YugabyteDB | Yugabyte simplifies SQL database migration with YugabyteDB Voyager

IBM | Despite upbeat financial results, IBM plans to lay off 3,900

Oracle | Oracle Launches Logistics Capabilities to get supply chains moving 

New Relic | New Relic Available as a Native Azure Service 

AtScale | AtScale Expands Databricks Integration with Support for Databricks SQL and Availability in Partner Connect 

Varonis | Varonis Launches Automated Posture Management 

Pangea | Level Up Your Authentication Security the Easy Way with Pangea and Auth0 

Articles I Liked This Week 💡

InfoWorld | Rational exuberance drives IT spending 

Calcalist | Israeli Cybersecurity startups to watch out for in 2023 

Dark Reading | ChatGPT Could Create Polymorphic Malware Wave, Researchers Warn

The New Stack | Kubernetes Needs to Take a Lesson from Portainer on Ease-of-Use

CIO | CIOs step up to fill plus-size leadership roles 

Ars Technica | FAA outage that grounded flights blamed on old tech and damaged database file | Ars Technica

• I liked this article because hopefully people can point to it and say, "Hey, do you want this to be us? If you don't, we need to modernize our applications....and spending time doing that will likely save us money in the long term!"

Tech Funding & M&A 💸

Snyk | Snyk Secures Strategic Investment from ServiceNow to Accelerate Enterprise DevSecOps Transformation

• Snyk is a Massachusetts based developer security platform that offers solutions such as license compliance management and threat intelligence.

Komprise | Komprise Raises $37M to Fuel Growth and Advance Leadership in Unstructured Data Management

• Komprise is a California based unstructured data control platform that provides solutions such as cloud migration and cyber resiliency.

Harness | Harness® Acquires Propelo, Bringing Actionable Engineering Insights to Award-Winning Software Delivery Platform 

• Harness is a California based continuous integration platform that manages and optimizes cloud cost management and automated deployment verification solutions for enterprises.

Strata | Strata Identity Raises $26M in Series B Financing

• Strata Identity is a Colorado based identity orchestration platform that offers solutions for digital transformation and access management.

Dell | Dell has acquired cloud orchestration startup Cloudify, sources tell us for up to $100M 

• Dell....if you don't know Dell, give it the old google or #chatGPT. Otherwise, this is a cool startup that they purchased...will be interesting to see where they integrate in their portfolio.

Meme of the week 🤣

Recommendations 👉🏻

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