Over the past few years, a number of independent Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) vendors were acquired by bigger players. In late 2010, HP scooped up market leader ArcSight for $1.5 billion. Last year, McAfee purchased Nitro Security while IBM acquired Q1 Labs.
In each of these deals, large vendors were using these acquisitions to bolster existing security offerings, replace legacy SIEM platforms, or filling holes in their portfolios togrow their security businesses. Kind of like your local general contractor buying a few new Chevyvans andsome extension ladders.
This consistent pattern is what makesTibco's acquisition of LogLogic this past April so fascinating.Tibco isn't a security
technology vendor at all but rather describes itself as, "a provider of infrastructure software for companies to use on-premise
or as part of cloud computing environments." Hmm, sodid the folks at Tibco suffer from temporary insanity when they grabbed
LogLogic? Not at all.In fact, this deal really demonstratessome vision on Tibco's part.The deal makes a ton of sense because:
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