Gartner prognosticates on security
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The Gartner Symposium and IT Expo 2005 also brought out 190 vendors and included keynote presentations from Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, HP CEO Mark Hurd and Dell CEO Michael Dell.
Ballmer said he believes his company has ironed out all of the security problems in its forthcoming Windows Vista operating system so that users can consider adopting it the first day it is released - for the most part.
"Most people will trust it from day one on their home computer, and then they will have to decide about their corporate PC. I encourage you to get it early, but I must be honest among friends," Ballmer said.
"We are in the middle of the best pipeline of products we've ever had."
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Beyond the keynote addresses and session information, Gartner analysts made many key prognostications. Those include:
* Customers should watch for the next generation of firewalls - expected around 2007 - to combine traditional firewall protection plus intrusion prevention and other more advanced features ..
* The many wireless networks make it difficult for users to move seamlessly between the different wired and wireless networks. Wi-Fi and wired LANs will be the first to come together as Wi-Fi controllers integrated in Ethernet switches ..
* Virtualization technologies will increase the ability to effectively consolidate larger resources ..
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