Jane Wright

Editor’s note: Symantec’s “decisive and bold” acquisition of Blue Coat creates a new market share leader in the enterprise security space, vaulting past IBM. Here’s a look at what’s happening in the security space from Technology Business Research Analyst Jane Wright. HAMPTON, N.H. – Two complementary companies join forces to capture market leadership through Symantec’s announced acquisition earlier this week of Blue Coat Systems. Although Symantec holds the second-largest share of the enterprise security market in revenue, its revenue and customer growth rates have been decelerating at an alarming rate, putting the vendor at risk of dropping to the...

Editor’s note: Symantec’s decision to form two new, more nimble companies will better align to two different markets, writes Jane Wright, engagement manager and senior analyst at Technology Business Research. HAMPTON, N.H. - Symantec split its resources and portfolio into two yet-unnamed companies: a security company and an information management company. This split is a much-needed move to return Symantec to competitive growth rates in the fast-moving security market while reinvigorating its strategies for the storage market. In recent quarters, Symantec has been working toward a goal of 30% operating margin in 1Q15, but TBR’s analysis shows Symantec was not...

Editor’s note: Jane Wright is Engagement Manager and Senior Analyst with Technology Business Research. HAMPTON, N.H. – IBM (NYSE: IBM) last week acquired privately held CrossIdeas, a provider of identity and access management (IAM) solutions. Previously, CrossIdeas’ core technology was integrated with IBM Security Identity Manager (ISIM). With this acquisition, CrossIdeas becomes an IBM company, helping accelerate time to market for delivering identity intelligence to IBM security customers. TBR believes IBM’s acquisition of CrossIdeas will drive more customers to evaluate ISIM and other IBM IAM products. Based on IBM’s Security Systems group’s history of acquisition and integration activity, TBR expects...

Editor’s note: Jane Wright is Engagement Manager and Senior Analyst with Technology Business Research. HAMPTON, N.H. – Dell is targeting ongoing security concerns for business data in public cloud storage platforms. After forming a strategic partnership with DropBox last year, Dell enhanced its Dell Data Protection Cloud Edition (DDP CE) solution with new security features that increase organizations’ abilities to protect business data in end users’ Dropbox for Business accounts. The enhancements increase the IT department’s visibility and control over business data that employees place in Dropbox accounts while helping to ensure that employees adhere to their organizations’ security policies....

Editor’s note: NetApp (Nasdaq: NTAP) reported earnings earlier this week, and Jane Wright, a senior analyst at Technology Business Research, offers her insight. NetApp operates one of its largest campuses in RTP.  HAMPTON,N.H. - NetApp’s 3Q13 financial performance reflects a vendor that is poised to overcome near-term macroeconomic uncertainties and continued hardware commoditization and to achieve long-term revenue and profit growth. In 3Q13 sales of stand-alone software and services offset double-digit hardware revenue declines to drive up gross margin 300 basis points to 62.3% on the back of 0.6% year-to-year corporate top-line growth. This performance was supported by branded revenue,...