My duck hunting partner called me up two weeks ago and convinced me to put a few bucks into FCCN. I’m new to both boards and penny stocks. I happened upon the WAVX page just a couple of hours ago and thought I could lend some meaningful comments.
Besides Michael Wellitt speaking at length about their products and technology, Seagate also conducted a more in-depth “lunch-n-learn breakout session”. A standing room only audience of about 100 packed in for an additional hour of one-on-one with the engineers. I have a fairly good HW background, so I kept them right to the end with a few questions. I was genuinely impressed with the product. I believe they had a contingent of six or seven people for this event.
In addition to the daytime event, Seagate also sponsored a hospitality suite after the event was over the first night. They were too busy and loud for me…I just wanted to get to my room and call my kids.
All of these individual developments in security are really great…but they need WAVX to bring the synergy to the table. Encryption’s (of any flavor) big challenge in the enterprise at this point is the key-management side of the house; this is where everyone seems to fall short. They all know it…so it won’t be long before this issue has matured into another costly rollout to train and budget for. My guess is that it will take about two years for this by resolved, tested, and deployed.
I have GLBA, SOX, and BSA mandates that keep me up at night. Even though I have Thinkpad T60 laptops deployed, I plan on retrofitting drives on all of them ASAP when this production is available for general distribution. I can’t use some of the BIOS level security as it doesn’t play well with some of my required applications.
Some of the think-tank projections point to Q1-2010 as the point when 80% of deployed PCs will be fully operational with TPMs, TPM aware OSs, and TPM aware applications. This seems a little statistically aggressive considering typical refresh cycles in medium and large businesses. Security is important…but to the many of the entrenched decision makers, if it isn’t broke…don’t replace it. Many Boards just don’t understand the relationship between static HW platforms suffering SW bloat and the marginal impact on productivity.
It’s getting late…more tomorrow or Monday. I still want to read through the FCCN board tonight.
TIA…Justin
Just the musings of an old duck hunter from NH…Justin.
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