Piper Jaffray analyst Andrew Nowinski updated his top picks across the Security, Storage and Networking sectors. The analyst's top picks in Security are Proofpoint (PFPT), SailPoint (SAIL) and Zscaler (ZS). His top picks in Storage are Pure Storage (PSTG) and NetApp (NTAP). And his top picks in Networking are Akamai (AKAM) and Arista Networks (ANET).

Zscaler announced innovations - ZDX Copilot, Hosted Monitoring, and Data Explorer - to its Zscaler Digital Experience service. The new ZDX Copilot, an AI assistant, instantly analyzes and harnesses knowledge from over 500 trillion data points daily across users, devices, networks, and applications, to provide IT operations, service desk, and security teams insights they need related to digital experience and performance. Teams can ask sequences of questions to effectively converse with Copilot, which uses Generative AI, to review high-level trends and progressively narrow results down to specific actionable insights.

Bullish option flow detected in Arista Networks with 2,900 calls trading, 1.7x expected, and implied vol increasing almost 2 points to 56.57%. Nov-24 270 calls and 4/26 weekly 275 calls are the most active options, with total volume in those strikes near 770 contracts. The Put/Call Ratio is 0.64. Earnings are expected on May 7th.