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 📰

Palo Alto Networks | Introducing Cloud NGFW for Azure — On-Prem to Azure, Seamlessly Secure

Microsoft | Announcing the next wave of AI innovation with Microsoft Bing and Edge

Salt | Salt Security Honored in the Prestigious Stevie® 2023 American Business Awards® (streetinsider.com)

CoreStack | CoreStack Named Winner of the Coveted Global InfoSec Awards at RSA Conference 2023 | Business Wire

Pure | Pure Storage rolls out unified storage feature for its Flash platform

Ivanti | Ivanti Wavelink and Zebra Technologies Join Forces to Boost IIoT Warehouse Automation

Datadog | Datadog Releases Data Streams Monitoring to Assess Streaming Data Pipeline Performance

ExtraHop | ExtraHop Expands Customers Detection Coverage with New Enterprise-Grade Solutions

Medallia | Medallia Announces Partnerships to Enhance Agent Assistance for Customer Service

Laminar | Laminar Receives AWS Security Competency Partner Status In Data Protection

GitLab | GitLab and Google Cloud partner to power generative AI-assisted DevSecOps features

Pure | Portworx by Pure Storage Announces Partnership with MongoDB to Unlock a Consistent Developer Experience for All Data Services

Anjuna | Anjuna Honored as Gold Winner in 2023 Stevie American

Box | Box is partnering with OpenAI to bring generative AI tools across the platform

New Relic | New Relic launches Grok, its AI observability assistant

IBM | IBM is pausing hiring on jobs that could be replaced by AI

Legit Security | Legit Security Wins 7 Industry Awards As RSA Conference

IBM | QRadar Security Suite by IBM launches

Aisera | Aisera Collaborates with Microsoft to Provide AI Enterprise Service Experiences with ChatGPT and Generative AI

Sophos | Sophos Announces Partnership with Measured Analytics and

Vanta | Shine a Light on Shadow IT: Vanta Launches Category-First Vendor Risk Management Solution

nSure| nSure.ai wins Editor’s Choice Award for Fraud Prevention from Cyber Defense Magazine at 2023 Global InfoSec Awards

Honeycomb | Honeycomb Launches First-of-kind Natural Language Querying for Observability Using Generative AI

Graid | Giga Computing/Gigabyte and Graid Team Up to Set NVMe Standards for Storage

Google | Google says goodbye to passwords with passkeys launch

Salesforce | Salesforce Announces Slack GPT, Unlocks Conversational AI

Knowbe4 | KnowBe4 Launches Password Kit to Celebrate World Password Day

GitGuardian | GitGuardian and Evotek Partner to provide customers scalable secrets detection and code security

Gluware | Gluware Earns Three Stevie Awards Wins, Including Best No Code/Low Code Platform, in 2023 American Business Awards®

Copado | Copado AI Launched

Microsoft | How Microsoft’s bet on Azure unlocked an AI revolution

Articles I Liked This Week 💡

CRN | Google Vs. Amazon Vs. Microsoft: Q1 Cloud Earnings Face-Off

RSA | RSA Conference 2023 Recap

InfoWorld | The era of cloud optimization is upon us

CIO Dive | FinOps Foundation moves to create a common language for cloud bills

The Hacker News | Researchers Discover 3 Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Azure API Management Service

Engadget | The Morning After: The Godfather of AI leaves Google amid ethical concerns

CSO | Skilling up the security team for the AI-dominated era

InfoWorld | Configure finops processes with the right metrics

The New Stack | Setting the Record Straight on Cloud Computing ROI

Tech Funding & M&A 💸

Codiga | Codiga Acquired to Expand Datadog’s Observability Platform

• Codiga is a California based SaaS platform that helps developers to write code and detect and fix errors in their code.

Okera | Databricks acquires AI-centric data governance platform Okera

• Okera is a California based AI powered platform that offers solutions such as data governance, security, and compliance for businesses.

Meme of the week 🤣

Recommendations 👉🏻

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