Friday Tech News

Good morning and Happy Friday!

It’s been a crazy week for me personally. Sorry, this isn’t going to be my best FTN yet but, I do want to take a moment and catch you up on my life.

On Tuesday, I had to say goodbye to my four-legged companion, Kota. Many of you know I’m a dog lover but in case you didn’t, yes, I’m a huge dog lover. I rescued Kota from the Raleigh SPCA 10 years ago when she was 2. She had just had a litter of puppies and had been abandoned afterwards. I took her in without even seeing her, I just wanted her and knew it.

From then on, she was the sweetest, most loveable dog one could imagine. She loved chasing squirrels and cats, breaking up other fights at dog parks, and overall loved being outside with her sister dog, Edith.

I’ll be writing these tech news updates without her by my side, as she’s been since I started this. Love you Kota 🤟.

I’ve had a ton on my mind this week and barely have been able to keep up with tech news. Either way, this week’s edition is compiled of some nice updates from popular OEM’s and other publishers. Lot of focus on AI and there was some significant funding from CyberArk’s purchase of Venafi.

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 📰

Google Cloud | Enhanced Security for Enterprises: Google Launches Google Threat Intelligence

Snowflake | Tealium unveils CDP integration with Snowflake’s Snowpipe Streaming API

PagerDuty | PagerDuty Unveils Innovations for the PagerDuty Operations Cloud To Improve Operational Efficiency

Microsoft | Microsoft Unveils Phi Silica: A Small Language Model for Copilot+ PCs

UiPath | UiPath and Microsoft Announce Copilot Integration

SmartBear | SmartBear Introduces HaloAI

DataStax | DataStax launches on-premise GenAI in ‘hyper-converged’ format

Rafay | Rafay Launches Platform-as-a-Service Capabilities for GPU-based Workloads

Nucleus Security | Nucleus Security Wins Prestigious Award for Risk-Based Vulnerability Management

Vast Data | Vast Data and Superna in Partnership

OneTrust | OneTrust Unveils New Capabilities to Discover, Secure, and Responsibly Use Data

Nutanix | Nutanix and Dell Technologies collaborate on new joint solutions for hybrid multicloud

SolarWinds | SolarWinds AI Launches to Transform IT Service Management

Zoom | Zoom Is 'First UCaaS Company' To Add Post-Quantum E2E Encryption To Video Calls

Red Hat | Nutanix and Red Hat Expand Collaboration to Power the Next-Generation of Virtualized and Cloud-Native Workloads

Microsoft | Microsoft Launches AI Copilot+ PCs

AppDome | Appdome Sweeps Cybersecurity Excellence Awards

JFrog | JFrog and Datadog Partner to Deliver Comprehensive App Utilization Insights and Accelerate Cloud Migration

LambdaTest | LambdaTest Announces Seamless Integration with PractiTest

Trend Micro | Trend Micro expands AI-powered cybersecurity platform

LaunchDarkly | LaunchDarkly announces new features to enable smoother software releases

Vanta | Announcing Vanta’s Industry-First Partnership to Automate HITRUST e1

DataStax | Transforming Search Capabilities: DataStax Introduces Cutting-Edge Vector-Based and Vector Database Technologies

Cado Security | Cado Security Releases New Research Finding Nearly 90% of Organizations Suffer Damage Before Containing Security Incidents

Databricks | alt.ai announces collaboration with Databricks

Snowflake | Snowflake's Anvilogic Investment Signals Changes in SIEM Market

Code42 | Code42 Announces Technology Partnership with Mimecast to

Netskope | Illumio and Netskope Announce Zero Trust Partnership to

Apple | Apple partners with OpenAI to enhance Siri in iOS 18

Articles I Liked This Week 💡

Tech Times | OpenAI Strengthens ChatGPT's News Content by Joining Forces With News Corp.

Tech Funding & M&A 💸

Venafi | CyberArk snaps up Venafi for $1.54B to ramp up in machine-to-machine security

• Venafi is a Utah based Cybersecurity platform that offers solutions such as machine identity management and k8s consulting for businesses.

h.ai | H Raises $220M in Seed Funding

• h.ai is a France based AI platform that provides task automation and decision making solutions for businesses.

Wonder Dynamics | Autodesk acquires AI-powered VFX startup Wonder Dynamics

• Wonder Dynamics is a California based AI platform that automatically animates, lights, and composes CG characters into live-action scenes.

Patronus AI | Patronus AI Raises $17M in Series A Funding

• Patronus AI is a New York based automated evaluation platform that enables enterprise development teams to score model performance and generate adversarial test cases.

Finout | Finout Raises $26 Million Series B, Leading FinOps Forward With Its Complete Platform

• FinOut is an Israel based FinOps SaaS platform that offers solutions such as anomaly detection, cost management, and cloud observability for enterprises.

RunSafe | SEC FORM D

• RunSafe is a Virgina based cybersecurity platform that offers solutions such as risk assessment and software crash analysis for businesses.

Bugcrowd | Bugcrowd, the crowdsourced white-hat hacker platform, acquires Informer to ramp up its security chops

• Informer is an England based cybersecurity platform that offers solutions such as attack surface management, pen testing, and external asset discovery for businesses.

Meme of the week 🤣

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