Or the Wiz IoT company, which seems like something Google might assimilate into Nest, but they didn't.

I'd argue an internal framework isn't a "product", but the confusion is real.

Probably a diversification play and a play to see out bigger contracts. If you've worked in the FEDRamp space, you may be aware that Wiz (last a checked, a year or so ago) is one of the few and possibly ownly player certified to operate in FedRAMP Medium/High deployments operating with the technology it does (eBPF instrumentation).

I'm really hoping this means GCP Security Command Center quickly gets subsumed by Wiz

>or they will keep it cloud agnostic?

They grossly overpaid if they aren't keeping it cloud agnostic. It's impressive software, but if it's only compatible with GCP it will not survive in this space.

Thats the entire purpose, the reality is that large corporations are increasingly “multi cloud” and Google wants to have an offering for them and for companies that are on AWS and Azure to be able to move some of their workloads to GCP.

AWS and GCP also made a joint announcement about multi cloud networking for a similar reason

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/networking-and-content-delivery...

Make it easy to use google cloud and plug into google ai

Wiz customer here, when fully implemented it provides an incredibly detailed and comprehensive view of your infrastructure.

I'm curious how much of that information is going to pass between Wiz and Google Cloud product/sales. It's effectively x-ray vision into some huge workloads running on their competitors.

If you think Google is capable of making a singular coherent decision on a topic like this, you're dreaming. There's likely multiple competing visions.

That said: the goal with Google M&A remains the same as always. Take competition off the board. I don't know this company or how they compete with Google, but 80% chance that's the play.

They are culturally incapable of merging other people's tech into their own stack and have both the tendency to rewrite everything from scratch on their own bespoke technologies and also internal engineering teams that will bristle at having a foreign body invade their cathedral.

You could say it would be talent acquisition but most everyone who comes from a startup walks as soon as their golden handcuffs loosen and they can find something else to do. Going from startup to Google is usually torturous.

Been through this 15 years ago. I don't think anything has changed.

There already is an integration with SecOps: https://www.wiz.io/integrations/google-security-operations and https://docs.cloud.google.com/chronicle/docs/soar/marketplac...

Is that the kind of integration you are refering to?

I thought it was about home automation at first https://www.wizconnected.com/

W = Winners, it's just science ;)

I bet someone has actually studied the effect of leading letters in startup names and funding & acquisitions, I vaguely seem to remember a story about it in the past.

They could put up a page for all three acquisitions, under "www".

Wiz and Waze are both Israeli companies. Not that suspicious, I think it probably just sounds better in Hebrew.

Title should be: Wiz Waz

Maybe someone typod in an email "I want you to buy woz" the i and o are next to each other on the keyboard. ;)

Someone else will rise to compete.

Then Google will buy them too.

> It's a pity going public isn't worth it anymore.

Israeli VC is uninterested in IPOs in general - too much of an operational headache and it's difficult to exit a position.

In most cases an IPO isn't worth it for founders because an IPO means you lose operational control.

> will result in less competition

The system working as intended.

“Competition is for losers” - Peter Thiel

Did you read the article? First line: "Nearly a year ago, we shared that Wiz would be joining Google."

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