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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.
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Developer & Security Tools
Networking & Infrastructure Tools
End User Tools & Workspace Tech
Emerging Technologies and Future Concepts
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Phil
OEM News & Updates đź“°
60% cheaper than GPT-3.5 Turbo.
Supports text and vision with future updates for image, audio, and video inputs/outputs.
Excels in reasoning, math, coding, and multimodal tasks.
Available next week.
Mistral and NVIDIA released Mistral NeMo 12B, which is an LLM for enterprise applications like chatbots, multilingual tasks, coding, and summarization.
Packed with inference, allows for easy deployment anywhere with enhanced security and privacy.
Aporia’s AI control platform achieves industry leading recall rates and lower latency compared to NeMo, GPT-4o, and GPT 3.5.
Average latency of .34 seconds and a 90th percentile latency of .43 seconds.
98% detection rate for hallucinations.
Hugging Face unveiled SmolLM, which is a new family of compact language models that outperform similar offerings .
135 million, 360 million, and 1.7 billion parameter models designed for various things.
Check the results.
Normalyze announced the launch of its new Snowflake native app, called, Normalyze DSPM.
The app integrates natively with the Snowflake AI Data Cloud which provides automated data discovery, classification, access management, and risk monitoring.
Meets tons of security requirements including FedRAMP.
Available on Snowflake Marketplace.
Tableau has launched its first gen AI assistant, Einstein Copilot for Tableau Prep.
This + more AI assistants from the Tableau catalog will help enable users to prepare and analyze data using natural language, making work more accessible for those of us who are non-technical, and more efficient for those of us who are.
Part of Tableau+ premium offering - if you’ve seen pricing LMK.
Qlik Talend Cloud came out which is an integrated solution designed to enhance data trust and accessibility for AI value creation at scale.
AI-Augmented Data Integration: The solution offers AI-augmented data integration capabilities from no-code to pro-code (new phrase?) enabling businesses to maintain data integrity and accelerate AI adoption.
Generate value from diverse data sources in a flexible and scalable environment.
Cloudera | Cloudera Unveils New Observability Offerings for On-Premises and Public Cloud Data Centers
Cloudera announced two new offerings for their Observability Premium platform designed to simplify and automate platform administration for both on-prem and hyperscale data centers.
Real time monitoring, advanced financial governance (FinOps), automated actions, and data observability which gives visibility into resource usage and cost.
Pretty cool announcement to unify views of costs of IT.
If you read back through Tech News and you and I have had a conversation, you’ll know that I’ve called Identity Management aka ISPM (Identity Security Posture Management) the next thing to solve for this coming year for CISO’s.
This update from Okta comes out formally with their ISPM solution. It identifies vulnerabilities and security gaps, providing continuous analysis and compliance reporting.
Available in early access, Okta AI detects and responds to threats in real time for users.
Can Okta bounce back as the preferred IDaaS provider in the market?
Mimecast has launched Human Risk Management (HRM) as a platform to mitigate risks caused by employee mistakes and user errors.
Offers company-wide human risk scoring and visibility.
New Human Risk Awareness Training offer redefines how security leaders manage human risk by providing targeted training based on individual risk profiles.
Tonkean | Tonkean Releases Enterprise Copilot, End-to-End AI and Orchestration To Eliminate Busywork
A new AI powered orchestration tool, Tonkean is designed to eliminate busywork for internal teams like procurement, legal, and IT.
It includes an AI Front Door, AI-enhanced forms, in-line AI Q&A, human-in-the-loop collaboration (new phrase), and end-to-end integration.
Helps resolve internal requests faster apparently.
Lots of updates from OpenText here.
Key Innovations are new offerings called DevOps Aviator, Fortify Aviator, Content Aviator, Thrust Studio 🤣, and Cloud for Government.
OpenText is emphasizing the importance of AI and cloud as strategic drivers of business transformation. They’re focusing on DevSecOps and securing business critical applications.
I’ve had great interactions with OpenText in the past. Good reviews from this end.
More on this from DBTA here.
ShardSecure | ShardSecure® Integrates With Entrust KeyControl Compliance Manager To Offer Robust Protection for Unstructured Data
This integration with Entrust KeyControl combines ShardSecure’s file-level encryption with Entrust’s Compliance Manager’s dashboard view of keys across various environments.
Offers enhanced protection for unstructured data, strong data privacy, and security with minimal performance impact.
Cool stuff and integration. Protect your data.
Launched Explore, a faster and more intuitive user interface for Open 360 observability.
Improves log management with features like speed simplicity, intelligent auto-complete, AI integration, and enhanced investigative tools.
Aims to democratize observability practices to make it easier for users with limited technical expertise to understand Logz.
Appgate | Appgate launches Malware Analysis Service to safeguard enterprises and government agencies
new Malware Analysis Service from Appgate helps enterprises and government agencies identify and neutralize malicious software.
Includes two new offerings for investigating files, hashes, and URL’s.
Aims to alleviate security ops constraints and mitigate malware risks to businesses.
Red Hat has introduced new features and improvements to its hybrid cloud platform including Advanced Cluster Security for Cloud.
Virtualization Migration Assessment: Key for those evaluating their current hypervisor strategy, this is a new tool to help businesses understand and move away from outdated virtualization solutions with a thorough risk assessment process.
Key Features that my buddies Manny and Murad know way more about than me include: Metro DR, Hot-add CPU, Multi-cluster Virtualization Monitoring, and image-based updates for single-node OpenShift.
Risk and Exposure Management (REM) solution on Azure
Two new integrations with Copilot for Security.
REM provides businesses with an automated, multi-factor risk prioritization approach to remediate vulnerabilities and strengthen security posture across their attack surface.
GKE Extended Support now available for clusters, allowing them to remain supported for up to 24 months for a specific minor version.
Extended support period incurs an additional fee of $0.50 per cluster per hour on top of the standard fee of $0.10 per cluster per hour.
Clusters must meet certain eligibility requirements.
Ops4AI Lab is the industry’s first multivendor lab for validating AI Data Center solutions and automated operations.
Juniper’s AI-Native Networking Platform includes AI-optimized switches, routes, firewalls, and software.
Tons of new enhancements to the product.
Comes with some validated designed for AI data centers.
Articles I Liked This Week đź’ˇ
Buy the dip!
Tracebit | A hard look at GuardDuty shortcomings
Really interesting read on Cloud Native security services.
GuardDuty has limitations in coverage, cost, and efficacy.
The sort of findings in this article speak to why 3rd party tooling exists to better secure these environments.
Info Security Magazine | Sensitive Data Sharing Risks Heightened as GenAI Surges
Reported that 96% of organizations now use GenAI applications, up from 74% in 2023.
46% of data policy violations involve proprietary source code and 35% involve regulated data.
DLP is on the rise. 75% of organizations are now using DLP solutions to manage GenAI data risks.
Troubles continue for Ivanti.
Critical SQL injection (CVE-2024-37381) that allows for RCE.
Released Hotfix 1 to address the issue. As a workaround, restricting access to EPM web console to trusted users and networks is recommended until the patch is applied.
Ivanti hasn’t seen any active exploits yet.
The Hacker News | Threat Prevention & Detection in SaaS Environments - 101
Good article talking about how to reduce risk in SaaS environments and what proactive measures to take. Common sense here but blocking and tackling are important.
Version 5 is now out.
Chatbot included in prep material.
Tons of resources for this open book exam!
Tech Funding & M&A đź’¸
Seriously, if you don’t know who they are I’ll happily do a separate thread on their history.
Endor Labs is a California based cybersecurity platform that offers solutions such as software supply chain security, CI/CD management and container scanning for developers.
Anthropic is a California based AI safety and research company that researches and develops Generative AI systems for individuals and businesses.
Cubbit is an Italy based cloud storage platform that offers solutions such as content collaboration, file protection, storage and sharing for individuals and businesses.
Brev.dev | NVIDIA Acquires AI Development Platform Brev
Brev.dev is a California based AI powered platform that enables developers to build, train, and deploy ML models.
Kandji | Kandji Raises $100M in Funding
Kandji is a California based endpoint management and security platform that helps companies manage and secure Apple Devices.
CTERA is a New York based SaaS platform that provides solutions such as hybrid cloud data management and remote workforce enablement for businesses.
SeaLights | Tricentis Acquires SeaLights to Revolutionize Industry Approach to Software Quality Engineering
SeaLights is an Israel based software quality intelligence platform that provides solutions such as test impact analytics and coverage visibility for businesses.
Pindrop is a Georgia based voice authentication and security software that provides solutions such as fraud protection and deepfake detection for businesses.
Moonwalk Universal | Panzura Acquires Moonwalk Universal Inc
Moonwalk Universal is a California based data governance company that provides data assessment, mobility, and storage optimization solutions for businesses.
Meme of the week 🤣
Felt this one hard.
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