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 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 📰

Chainguard | Chainguard joins Docker Verified Publisher program to offer developers everywhere access to secure, hardened container images

DoControl | DoControl Wins Best SaaS Security Platform for Insider Threats and Most Innovative Security Software of the Year at the 2024 Globee® Awards for Cybersecurity

Salt Security | Salt Security Wins Gold at the 20th Annual 2024 Globee® Awards for Cybersecurity

BrowserStack | Microsoft Chooses BrowserStack as Partner of Choice for Mobile App Testing

Appdome | Appdome Named Best DevOps Security Tool at Computing's DevOps Excellence Awards 2024

Cymulate | Israeli Cybersecurity Startup Wins Attack Simulation Award

NetApp | NetApp joins hands with Nvidia to unleash GenAI-powered storage solutions

Tenable | Tenable Expands Generative AI Capabilities

SonaType | Sonatype Launches Industry-First Integrated System of Record for Management of SBOMs

Kubecost | Kubecost Launches Kubecost 2.2 with Carbon Cost Monitoring

Confluent | Confluent Unveils Tableflow to Unite Analytics and Operations with Data Streaming

AWS | Amazon com : AWS and NVIDIA extend their collaboration to advance generative AI

One Identity | One Identity launches new SaaS-based, privileged access management (PAM) solution

Databricks | Databricks and NVIDIA Deepen Collaboration to Accelerate Data and AI Workloads with the Data Intelligence Platform

Tufin | Tufin Enhances Visibility and Control Capabilities, Streamlining Management of Network and Cloud Security From a Single Platform

Snowflake | Snowflake Teams with NVIDIA to Deliver Ful l-Stack AI Platform for Customers to Transform Their Industries

CrowdStrike | CrowdStrike collaborates with NVIDIA to advance cybersecurity with GenAI

Drata | Drata unveils Adaptive Automation for streamlined compliance

AWS | Amazon and Snowflake partner to enable modern data streaming pipeline with Snowpipe and Data Firehose

NVIDIA | Nvidia, Databricks Expand Collaboration for Enterprise AI

Microsoft | Microsoft and Nvidia team up to improve Gen AI for enterprises

WekaIO | WekaIO Unveils WEKApod Data Platform Appliance For NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD With DGX H100 Systems

PagerDuty | PagerDuty, Inc. Launches its Enterprise Plan for Incident Management, Enterprise-Grade Solution

Cohesity | Cohesity Unlocks Generative AI Capabilities for Customers through New Collaboration and Investment from NVIDIA

Cloudera | Cloudera and NVIDIA collaborate to expand GenAI capabilities with NVIDIA Microservices

DataStax | DataStax Introduces RAG Solution Using NVIDIA Microservices and Astra DB

Apiiro | Apiiro and Secure Code Warrior join forces for developer training integration

ControlUp | ControlUp Secure DX reduces endpoint management complexity

Zoom | Zoom Launches ‘All-in-One’ Compliance Offering

ConductorOne | ConductorOne Launches Solution to Detect, Secure and Manage Access to Shadow Apps

PURE Storage | Pure Storage Accelerates Enterprise AI Adoption to Meet Growing Demands with NVIDIA AI

CalypsoAI | CalypsoAI Platform Released

Anthropic | Claude 3 models on Vertex AI

Articles I Liked This Week 💡

Dark Reading | Akamai Research Finds 29% of Web Attacks Target APIs

Microsoft | Introducing cloud.microsoft: a unified domain for Microsoft 365 apps and services

CSA | Prepare Your Board of Directors for New SEC Rules

Tech Funding & M&A 💸

Data.ai | App analytics firm Sensor Tower acquires rival Data.ai and is cutting staff

• data.ai is a California based AI powered platform that provides solutions such as competitive intelligence and app insights for businesses.

Oxeye | Israel's Oxeye Getting Bought Out by Gitlab

• Oxeye is an Israel based cloud security platform that provides solutions such as Software Composition Analysis (SCA) and application security posture management (ASPM) for businesses.

Lilac | Databricks acquires Lilac to supercharge data quality efforts for gen AI apps

• Lilac is a Massachusetts based data intelligence platform that develops tools for data understanding and manipulation to modify AI products.

Foundry | NEA Joins $80 Million Series A for Foundry

• Foundry is a California based public cloud that enables businesses to access AI compute resources and scale machine learning workloads.

BigID | BigID Raises $60M, Eyes M&A Around Data Security, Compliance

• BigID is an Israel based SaaS platform that offers solutions such as data privacy management, and data loss prevention for businesses.

Speedb | Data unicorn Redis acquires Israeli startup Speedb to boost platform with data storag

• Speedb is an Israel based storage engine platform that provides solutions such as data processing and performance optimization for developers.

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