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Good morning and Happy Friday!
We’re counting down to Black Hat, and I hope to have a really special edition coming up for you to read next week on that! More to come…but for now, see the latest headlines below!
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:
Cloud Computing, Security, Trends
Developer & Security Tools
Networking & Infrastructure Tools
End User Tools & Workspace Tech
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 📰
Sysdig announced Sage, a new GenAI assistant that uses a unique AI architecture to provide cloud security solutions and options. It’ll perform multistep reasoning, multidomain correlation, and proactive action to discover, prioritize and remediate risks in cloud environments.
Dynatrace | Dynatrace combines predictive and causal insights with generative AI to redefine observability
Davis AI, the new AI engine from Dynatrace can forecast future actions, determine precise answers on metrics, and create recommended solutions based on what it sees. This is the first APM vendor I’m seeing with an AI solution being offered/marketed. They’re the leader in the GMQ.
Opentext is bringing AI and analytic features to their product so customers can gain more insights, automation, and efficiency from their data and workflows.
Veeam | Veeam Partners with Microsoft to Bring New Data Protection and Ransomware Recovery Capabilities
Veeam integration with newly announced Backup for Microsoft 365. Interesting to see.
Red Hat | Red Hat Expands Capabilities of JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Offerings on Microsoft Azure
AWS had a massive Summit in NYC this week and this link goes over announcements around new services and integrations that were center stage.
This one caught my attention. It covers major updates around how AWS plans to leverage AI in their platform, which, I’ve been hopeful to see! It includes items like:
Agents for Amazon Bedrock
Generative BI for Quicksight - this seems SUPER interesting!
Training and enablement on using AI responsibly
SolarWinds has come back from the ashes with a big win at the Cloud Security Awards 2023. The system won best security infrastructure and leverages generative AI to create secure and scalable cloud infrastructure.
Dig Security | Dig Security Becomes First Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) Solution to Provide Data Security for Generative AI Deployments
Great announcement from Dig. I see opportunity in leveraging LLMs in the enterprise but with guardrails. If you’re looking into DSPM solutions, this is a great option to investigate along with Wiz and Laminar.
Been a huge fan of the work Baffle has been doing for years, and believe I’ve written about that. Baffle Data Protection Services with Advanced Encryption is a new offering that is a privacy enhanced technology solution that enables analytical and operational computations on protected, regulated data.
Another new announcement from Wiz, their agentless SBOM tool can scan any cloud workload without installing agents and generate an SBOM report.
JetBrains | JetBrains ships Qodana static code analysis tool
Good announcement from JetBrains - I see it a lot in the wild and Qodana will be a nice offering to detect code quality, security, etc.
Competing with the likes of Island in the Secure Browser space, this is a new announcement from Talon to secure any user on any device in any location against any web application.
Consolidation and partnerships are key in the data world. Good announcement from this pair to team up.
New AI capabilities in their HEAL platform allow organizations to have enhanced capabilities around incident response, readiness, and recovery.
Very cool to see from New Relic. They started strong in the APM world and are now entering the application security testing world with IAST. I like the approach and active customers will benefit from this solution. No AI in there yet though 🙂.
SentinelOne | SentinelOne® Launches Cloud Data Security Product Line
S1 launched a new product called Cloud Data Security (CDS) which provides customers with malware detection and prevention for their cloud storage and network devices. CDS can scan every file and object added into an S3 bucket or NetApp storage system for file born and zero day malware and automatically remediate and quarantine anything bad it finds.
New AI capabilities to simplify data access and analysis for it's customers. It’ll provide summarization, transcription, and search capabilities across lots of file types + have an AI chat interface.
Palo Alto Networks | Palo Alto Networks adds new CI/CD security module to Prisma Cloud
Articles I Liked This Week 💡
Big news. 4 days. The SEC has adopted new rules that will require public companies to disclose cyber incidents and risk management practices to investors and the government. The rules aim to enhance transparency and accountability but also pose challenges and risks for companies.
InfoWorld | The downsides of microservices architecture
CIO Influence | IaaS Cloud Networking Gains in Importance as Organizations Seek Seamless Operations Across Multiple Platforms, According to IDC
InfoWorld | How AI will impact the developer experience
Tech Funding & M&A 💸
Adaptive Shield is an Israeli based cybersecurity platform that offers solutions such as threat detection and security posture management for businesses.
Imperva is an Israeli founded and California based Cybersecurity platform that provides solutions such as data encryption and application security. They have a very large portfolio and this is likely to be one of the biggest acquisitions of the year.
OneTrust is a Georgia based cybersecurity platform that provides solutions such as privacy incident management and security risk assessment for businesses.
Protect AI is a Washington based cybersecurity platform that provides solutions such as ML systems security and AI process protection for enterprises.
Stemma is a California based open source data catalog platform that provides solutions such as metadata management and data governance.
Cyclops is an Israeli based cybersecurity platform that has developed a contextual search platform powered by GenAI to answer questions about the state of an organizations security posture without the need for forensics of SIEM expertise.
Gem is a New York based cybersecurity platform that provides solutions including incident response, containment orchestration, and threat detection for businesses.
Meme of the week 🤣
This was the funniest thing I saw on the internet this week as it relates to tech!
Recommendations 👉🏻
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