bridge, just citing what it appears HP uses as its default means to implement TPMs, nothing about NIST/bios. Obviously even though this is the default means for TPMs, customers have flexibility as demonstrated by Wave ERAS-TDM deployments on HP machines. I consider the situation rather fluid, but they do have an incumbent TPM management suite. They could throw Credant under the bus, Credant could develop cWEM, or the could SIs e.g. could sell hybrids. It will ultimately be an SI/buyer action if one is looking at NIST-compliant gov machines. The HP-Credant relationship represents incumbency, just as the Dell-Wave relationship represents incumbency (although Credant's relationship will Dell is by no means flimsy, while Wave's relationship with HP would have to be considered flimsy). We'll see when these things actually roll. I believe what is going to become important is what customers have on the ground, that will be the defining component of incumbency (in this niche). Wave dominate SED management, I don't know if anybody dominates TPM management, as Wave has supposedly rolled $500k of WEM, and I am aware of no other such product there, Wave is clearly first out the gate with NIST-compliant bios-pre-boot integrity software.
I think Wave's strength in forever focusing on interoperability and diverse platforms and the considerable engineering weight I believe they are willing to bring to bear to iron out deployment difficulties makes them a strong competitor.
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