Friday Tech News

10/11/2024

Author

Phil Moroni
October 11, 2024

Good morning and Happy Friday!

I hope you’ve had a wonderful week. Sorry this one is coming out a bit late. Had some responsibilities to take care of this morning!

To start, I’d like to personally thank you for your support last week if you chose to donate to me. Together, we raised $585 that I will donate to a gofundme dedicated to supporting Western NC Hurricane Helene relief efforts. From the bottom of my heart, thank you for your help. It means a ton.

This week saw a good week in updates from the tech industry. I hope you enjoy reading through the sections below and have a truly wonderful weekend with family, friends, and loved ones.

Stay physically and digitally safe!

Phil

OEM News & Updates 📰

  • OpenAI Canvas is a new ChatGPT feature designed to enhance writing and coding tasks through real-time AI collaboration.

  • It offers immediate AI powered feedback and real time adjustments for enhanced productivity and reduced revision time.

  • Canvas supports a wide range of coding tasks and serves as a powerful writing assistant, aiding in research and text editing for users.

  • New offering from Commvault - big fan of theirs - Cloud Rewind integrates cloud native distributed application recovery and rebuild capabilities, enabling rapid recovery after a cyberattack.

  • Rebranded / integrated Appranix platform.

  • Comes with a fancy and useful dashboard that provides continuous ransomware readiness assessments and actionable insights to improve resilience and recovery readiness.

  • Supports major CSPs.

  • Snyk introduced enhanced AI driven security features to improve application security and DevOps efforts. Not gonna say DevSecOps.

  • New tools like DeepCode AI Fix help developers quickly address security issues in code. Pretty neat.

  • They also expanded reporting and analytics capabilities to provide deeper insights into application security.

  • Overall enhancements to the. developer experience which is awesome to see from a leader in the space.

  • Dataiku released LLM Guard Services suite to enhance enterprise genAI deployments.

  • The suite includes Cost Guard, Safe Guard, and Quality Guard, all integrated with Dataiku’s LLM Mesh.

  • Focuses on Enterprise grade clientele.

  • New release from SW available in both Self-Hosted and SaaS models.

  • The new version of observability suite enhancements includes additional tools for infrastructure monitoring, machine learning, and expanded support for AWS, Azure, and K8s.

  • They also announced partnerships with Meraki and Fortinet for SDWAN capabilities. And of course, there’s AI in the mix.

  • Coefresh has extended its enterprise support to all Argo users including those not using Codefresh GitOps.

  • The support includes Argo CD, Argo Workflows, Argo Rollouts, and Argo Events, all implemented with GitOps. best practices.

  • Users have access to dedicated Argo experts 24/7 for priority fixes and proactive technical support.

  • Radware has launched a new Threat Intelligence Service to enhance threat detection and IR for secops teams.

  • Service provides real-time intelligence and pre-emptive warnings about potential network attacks to help lower MTTR.

  • Part of Radware’s Cloud Security Platform that includes web app, bot management, API, client side, and DDoS protection.

  • Smartsheet has launched a connector with AWS Q Business allowing data sync and enhanced AI powered insights.

  • This connector helps eliminate data silos by combining Smartsheet data with other sources like SFDC, Slack, and AWS.

  • The integration enables users to query their work management data through Amazon Q Business to improve decision making and enhance productivity.

  • Frontegg introduced Flows, an AI powered tool to simplify customer identity workflows, reducing the need. forextensive coding.

  • Flows can adapt to security risks by triggering additional verification steps based on end user behavior.

  • Devs and non devs can create and modify workflows using a natural language interface accompanied by power visualization for the flows.

Articles I Liked This Week 💡

Tech Funding & M&A 💸

  • Voyage makes software for organizing the data processed by artificial intelligence models for businesses.

  • Reducto offers document ingestion for any workflow and is a document management company supporting businesses.

  • Lightdash is a California based SaaS platform that offers productivity tools for data analysts to deploy business intelligence at enterprise scales.

  • Distributional is an Oregon based SaaS platform that provides solutions such as AI testing and evaluation for enterprises.

  • Parablu is a California based cloud platform that provides solutions including data management and endpoint protection for businesses.

  • Kivera is a cloud security, data, and compliance-based company from Sydney.

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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!

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

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