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 📰

NICE | NICE Announces First Conversational CX With ChatGPT-Enabled CXone

Tricentis | Tricentis' SaaS-based Solution Empowers No-Code, Flexible Test Automation

Cyware | Cyware Cyber Fusion Center (CFC) Platform Achieves FedRAMP Ready Designation

Dremio | Dremio Debuts in AWS Marketplace

Microsoft Azure & O365 | Microsoft 365 Outage Azure Struggles

• Just in case you were wondering what went down a week ago

Salt Security | The Salt Security API Protection Platform is Now Available on Google Cloud Marketplace

KELA | KELA Unveils Revolutionary Cyber Intelligence Platform at CyberTech Tel Aviv, Empowering Proactive Digital Crime Prevention with Real, Actionable Intelligence

Docker | Docker BuildKit Adds Support for Supply Chain Security Practices and Cache Backends

Commvault | Commvault leads industry in Kubernetes Data Protection for third consecutive year | ITWeb

AWS | Amazon SageMaker built-in LightGBM now offers distributed training using Dask

ShardSecure | ShardSecure collaborates with Entrust to address data security issues

Oracle Cloud (OCI) | Oracle Named A Leader & positioned highest for Ability to Execute

• This was a really interesting article to me. I had not learned about iPaaS yet. I'm seeing more and more OCI as I talk with clients throughout the country.

F5 | F5 NGINXaaS for Azure Released

• I see a lot of NGINX in the wild and think this is a great announcement and likely, something that customers have been asking for for quite some time. Be sure to read this one if you're an F5 and Azure customer.

SafeBreach | SafeBreach Launches Threat Intelligence Collective With Leading Partners to Optimize Intelligence and Enable Proactive Security

Red Hat | Red Hat and Oracle Expand Collaboration to Bring Red Hat Enterprise Linux to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

• Another big announcement in favor of OCI!

New Relic | New Relic Launches Industry’s Only Full-Stack Change Tracking Solution

Versa Networks | Versa Networks Awarded Top Intel® Network Builders Winners’ Circle 2022 Award

AWS | New – Deployment Pipelines Reference Architecture and Reference Implementations

Microsoft 365 | From Viva Goals to Loop—what's new from Microsoft 365

NetApp | NetApp To Cut Workforce By About 8% Amid Restructuring

AWS | New – AWS CloudTrail Lake Supports Ingesting Activity Events From Non-AWS Sources

Zscaler | Zscaler Introduces Cloud Resilience Capabilities for SSE

Sysdig | Sysdig Report Finds that 87% of Container Images Have High Risk Vulnerabilities

Sophos | Introducing Sophos Network Detection and Response (NDR) – Sophos News

Microsoft 365 | Microsoft Teams Premium: Cut costs and add AI-powered productivity

• AI here refers to ChatGPT

VMware | What’s New in VMware Cloud on AWS: Jan 2023

Okta | Okta Lays Off 300 Employees After Sales Execution Challenges

ExtraHop | ExtraHop Partners with Binary Defense to Deliver Managed Network Detection and Response

Checkmarx | Checkmarx Launches Threat Intelligence for Open Source Packages

Splunk | Splunk to cut 4% of global workforce

Torii | Torii Launches Advanced SaaS Management & Cost-Saving Capabilities for Distributed Workplaces

Sonatype | Sonatype Launches Industry's First ‘Run Anywhere’ Platform

Ox Security | Cybersecurity Leaders Launch First Attack Matrix for Software Supply Chain Security

Wasabi | Wasabi Surveillance Cloud for Offloading Video Surveillance Footage Introduced

LambdaTest | LambdaTest Launches Digital Experience Testing Cloud to Accelerate Digital Transformation for Enterprises

Knowbe4 | KnowBe4 Wins 2023 "Winter Best Of" Awards From TrustRadius in Three Categories

Red Hat | Red Hat Launches Ansible Automation Platform on Google Cloud

• Red Hat had a big week! I'm excited to see them making these announcements and think it will be great for future cloud adoption options.

Articles I Liked This Week 💡

Aithority | Venture in Security Releases a Deep Dive Concluding That the Future of Cybersecurity Will Be Defined by the Leading Cloud Providers Such as Google and Microsoft Because of the Impact of "Data Gravity"

• This is a great article showcasing the power of the cloud and makes a ton of sense. I'm a big fan of Venture in Security and you should definitely check it out! Great pickup by Aithority.

TechCrunch | Hacker finds bug that allowed anyone to bypass Facebook 2FA

SC Magazine | How a cloud center of excellence can bring order to the cloud

• I missed this one last week, but, it's a great read especially coming from a security focused outlet. I'd love your feedback on how your CCOE is executing!

CIO Dive | 3 technology lessons from Southwest’s IT failure

Tech Funding & M&A 💸

Sentra | Cyber startup founded by Unit 8200 Commander raises $30 million Series A

• Sentra is an Israel based cybersecurity platform that provides solutions such as cloud data protection and risk assessment.

Saviynt | Saviynt Raises $205M; Founder Rejoins as CEO, Appoints Seasoned President to Accelerate its Leadership in Identity Management

• Saviynt is a California based identity management platform that offers solutions such as governance and cloud security.

Guardz | Guardz raises $10 million Seed funding to make cybersecurity accessible to small busi

• Guardz is an Israel based cybersecurity platform that provides solutions such as data protection and insurance for small businesses.

Gem | Gem Security Emerges From Stealth With $11M, Unveils Cloud TDIR Platform for Faster Response to Cloud Threats

• Gem is a New York based cybersecurity platform that provides solutions including incident response, containment orchestration and threat detection for enterprises.

Meme of the week 🤣

Recommendations 👉🏻

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