I am picking up on disturbing news about Symantec. First a reseller from Columbia that I was chatting with at the recent RSA Conference in San Francisco informed me that he was there to find a solution to fill a gap created by Symantec abandoning all but its top resellers. Second, another industry veteran told me that Symantec is abandoning all but its most profitable 2,000 customers. That will leave over 100,000 Symantec customers looking for alternatives. It’s a good time to be CrowStrike, Blackberry Cylance, or Carbon Black.
Symantec’s evident strategy—post Broadcom acquisition—is insane and doomed to failure. Historically, this move is only matched by the tremendous blunder that Symantec made under John Thomson when it acquired Veritas.
read more (Forbes)
Symantec’s evident strategy—post Broadcom acquisition—is insane and doomed to failure. Historically, this move is only matched by the tremendous blunder that Symantec made under John Thomson when it acquired Veritas.
read more (Forbes)
