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11/3/2023 - AI this & that, Cloud-Native updates, and The SolarWinds Fiasco Continues
Phil Moroni
November 03, 2023
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 industry here with another edition of Friday Tech News!
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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:
Cloud Computing, Security, Trends
Developer & Security Tools
Networking & Infrastructure Tools
End User Tools & Workspace Tech
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 | Copilot for Work
General Availability went live this week. CoPilot can help users create content, automate workflows, and enhance their skills. It’s available to Enterprise customers and can be purchased through various MSFT licensing vehicles.
HashiCorp unveiled a new feature for its HCP Vault service. It’s called “Multi Secondary performance replication” and it allows users to replicate data across multiple regions and cloud providers for HA, DR, and geo-performance. It’s available for Enterprise customers on AWS and Azure today.
New solution from Darktrace called Darktrace/Cloud aims to provide real-time cyber resilience for cloud environments. It’s based off their self learning AI and provides comprehensive visibility into cloud architectures, real-time cloud native threat detection and response, and prioritized recommendations and actions you should take. It’s available on the AWS marketplace today.
I think this is pretty cool. The networking battle continues between Aviatrix and Prosimo. Prosimo might have just taken an edge with this release though as it’ll do a ton of things for you, including allowing you to do chargeback to application teams based on traffic usage, resources, and cloud-native identities.
Automated Tagging from Immuta with Immuta Discover. It enables data teams to establish and maintain highly accurate metadata for the primary purpose of data control, monitoring, and regulatory compliance.
In the world of backup and ransomware prevention, I’m seeing Cohesity take a more data centric approach. Thus, this partnership is key. This new integration enables businesses to derive analytical insights from on-prem and cloud data while maintaining data sovereignty and compliance requirements.
Cool announcement and partnership from ExtraHop and NetSkope. This lets you inspect Netskope data in the Reveal(x) platform from EH.
Gloo Mesh Core is an open source kubernetes native service mesh management platform. It is aimed to simplify installation, config, and operation of Istio service mesh across clusters, regions, and clouds.
Mend Enterprise allows businesses to automate the discovery, analysis, and remediation of software dependencies across their apps and environments. It also provides features such as dependency health monitoring, vuln scanning, license compliance, and policy enforcement.
Worthy of a read. NetApp ONTAP 10 came out which provides enhanced performance, security, and efficiency for hybrid cloud workloads. They also announced NetApp Cloud Manager and NetApp Spot Wave which optimizes the performance of big data and analytics apps on kubernetes.
Veritas | Semperis and Veritas Join Forces
This partnership will combine NetBackup and Enterprise Vault solutions with Semperis’ Active Directory Forest Recovery and Directory Services Protector solutions. It aims to help enterprises recover from ransomware attacks, prevent data loss, and enhance compliance.
Honeycomb Kubernetes Agent simplifies the collection and analysis of Kubernetes data. It also announced Kubernetes Navigator which provides a visual and interactive way to troubleshoot Kubernetes clusters and workloads.
Articles I Liked This Week 💡
Help Net Security | SolarWinds and CISO accused of fraud, control failures
It’s absolutely crazy what the modern CISO faces these days. I’ve seen varying sentiments on this on LinkedIn and Twitter. What are your thoughts?
The White House | FACT SHEET: President Biden Issues Executive Order on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence
I found this + the Forrester article interesting. AI and GenAI will become super important in the Enterprise and modern SMB alike. How are you putting frameworks, reference architectures, and other controls in place for the safe adoption of these technologies?
Tech Funding & M&A 💸
Proofpoint has acquired Tessian, a Massachusetts based cybersecurity platform that offers solutions such as cloud driven email security and threat protection.
Last acquisition by Proofpoint was Illusive in December of 2022
Thanks Richard Stiennon for the Analyst Dashboard!
Dig is an Israel based cybersecurity platform that provides solutions such as DSPM and data detection response for sectors including retail and finance.
Reminder, PANW’s last acquisitions were in fall of 2022 and included Cider and Apiiro.
It appears they’re trying to offer every point solution the market has to offer from code to cloud.
Anthropic is a California based AI safety and research company that researches and developers generative AI systems for individuals and businesses.
Graylog | Graylog Secures $39 Million Investment
Graylog is a Texas based open-source log management platform that offers solutions such as threat detection and API security for businesses.
Chainguard | Chainguard Raises $61 Million Series B Round as Enterprises Move to Fortify Open Source Software
Chainguard is a Washington based open-source platform that offers solutions such as supply chain security and risk management for businesses.
AirTrack is an Australia based SaaS platform that offers solutions such as analytics, data collections, and asset management for businesses.
Jeli is a California based SaaS platform that provides solutions including incident management and analysis for businesses.
Meme of the week 🤣
Best Halloween related meme I saw this week. There were definitely some good ones this year!
Second favorite of the week (bonus meme).
Recommendations 👉🏻
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