Following its recent acquisition of RSA, EMC's VP of information security explains how the company has avoided the innovate, acquire, and integrate "death spiral", into which he claims rival Symantec has fallen.
When security giant Symantec bought storage specialist Veritas two years ago, the US$13.5 billion deal was a massive beacon pointing to technological convergence.
Within a few years, companies that offer only security products will have been relegated to the history books.
Oracle has offered to purchase rival BEA Systems for US$17 per share, a total of about US$6.66 billion in cash -- but BEA rejected the offer as too low.
Storage and security vendors used to come from different worlds -- but in the space of 18 months, Symantec merged with Veritas and EMC acquired RSA Security. So how do you feel about trusting the same vendor to store and secure your corporate data?
Security industry watcher Jon Oltsik says the business is undergoing profound changes, and not all players are created equal.
Check Point may have made big bucks selling firewalls in its early days, but it is struggling to live up to its CEO's vision in today's rapidly shifting security market.
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