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Good morning and welcome to another edition of Friday Tech News! I hope you’ve had a wonderful week.
What. A. Week. I started my week off in Austin seeing new customers and potential ones. It was a wonderful trip and I’m grateful to have met and seen so many people, including some long lost friends.
The news of the week though is clearly the Wiz acquisition by Google. I made a deeper LinkedIn post on this and left comments below under the article link, but I think ultimately this is a great move to bolster the awareness and funding for cybersecurity in cloudsec.
I’m excited for all my friends over there, congratulations to everyone involved in the deal. More cool funding announcements also came through as well as some great M&A.
As always, thank you for reading this and I hope you stay physically and digitally safe this weekend!
Best,
Phil
OEM News & Updates 📰
Palantir | Palantir and Databricks announce partnership
This partnership combines Palantir’s AI and DB’s data platforms to offer secure and efficient solutions for AI apps.
It integrates DB’s Unity Catalog into Palantir’s AI platform to deliver an advanced, ai powered set of workflows to increase efficiency and reduce technical barriers to utilizing GenAI.
Already widespread impact on this and very cool to see the expanded partnership from DB.
Balbix introduced BX5, an AI engine designed to improve risk management with advanced differential processing and specialized small language models (SLMs).
The new version of BIX their GenAI assistant offers faster responses, chain of thought reasoning, real time internet access, and multi-modal outputs like charts and trend analyses.
Early adopters are reporting faster mean time to mitigate (MTTM) for criticals.
Zoom unveiled advanced AI companion capabilities for productivity including calendar management, clip generation, and writing assistance.
Businesses can tailor the AI companion to their needs using AI Studio to create things like custom meeting templates, dictionaries, and integration of 3rd party apps.
This is crowded space for collaboration and I personally am not a huge fan of Zoom meetings and how they manage things. Just my personal pref.
Cloudflare | Cloudflare introduces Threat Events
Cloudflare introduced the Cloudforce One Threat Events Feed which offers real-time intel on cyberattacks.
The feed provides actionable insights tailored to specific environments, industries, and regions.
Integrated summaries and threat intel streamline workflows. But can they tell you how it actually affects your environment? No.
Adobe | Adobe introduces AI Agents
Adobe unveiled new AI driven tools in the Adobe Experience Cloud, introducing advanced modules in Journey Optimizer and Experience Manager for omnichannel performance benefits.
New features for B2B teams include AI agents for lead gen, automated content creation using Adobe Firefly, and real time analytics for campaign optimization.
Major brands are already adopting this.
Vanta introduced tools like team-based collab and granular user access to allow security and GRC teams to streamline tasks and improve communication.
Updates include improved audit accuracy, expanded questionnaire automation formats (coming in May) and seamless integration with external auditors via API.
Articles I Liked This Week 💡
Tech Funding & M&A 💸
Google | Google buys Wiz for huge $32B sum
Lots of major analysts takes on this out there. See Mike Privette, James Berthoty’s, and Chris Hughes talk from earlier this week on it. Latio Tech also produced a good write up of the impact.
Interesting to see how this will impact GCP revenues and potential shifts from other CSPs as IaaS and PaaS providers.
Kinda goes against what Yinon told me back in September after the last bid. For more on that, check out the interview I did with him here where he said they weren't looking to be acquired after the last $23B offer. But what’s $10B more.
Congrats to all involved - super excited for the future of improved Cloud Security.
Ampere | Softbank to acquire Ampere
Nerdio | Nerdio raises $500M
NVIDIA | NVIDIA acquires Gretel
Arize AI | Arize acquires Velvet
Supabase | Supabase raises $100M
xAI | xAI buys Hotshot
Varonis | Varonis acquires Cyral
Layoff | IBM lays off thousands
Meme of the week 🤣
Vibe Security coming in next. Just prompt your way thru feelings.
Recommendations 👉🏻
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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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