Google Looking to Make Magic with Wiz | The Gestalt IT Rundown: July 17, 2024

Published: July 17, 2024, 5 p.m.

Google is looking to make their biggest acquisition ever. According to a report in the Wall Street Journal on Sunday, Alphabet will be making a bid to purchase Wiz for $23 billion. Wiz has spent the past four years developing a cloud security platform that has detected some big problems in a number of providers, including one in Microsoft Bing. Google is finding itself increasingly under fire from a varity of attackers. The move comes as Google is facing antitrust charges from the Department of Justice and could have even called off a potential purchase of HubSpot.

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Time Stamps:

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0:00 - Welcome to the Rundown

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1:18 - Cerabyte's Laser Etched Petabyte-Scale Storage

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7:02 - Veeam a Target in Malware Attack

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9:00 - Mirantis Updates its Kubernetes Platform

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12:27 - Snowflake Says Yay to MFA

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15:29 - RAG Optimized by Qdrant BM42 Vector Search Algorithm

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18:56 - Google Looking to Make Magic with Wiz

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26:18 - The Weeks Ahead

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28:12 - Thanks for Watching

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