On InformationWeek, Mike Fratto says that the research summary headline, Reports of NAC’s death have been greatly exaggerated; market up 16% in 1Q ‘08, really says it all. But, Fratto warns the readers not to get too excited. The increase of 16% in 1Q over the previous quarter means approximately $10 million more in sales. The market is still relatively small, so any movement will be magnified. Fratto says that his own reader survey on NAC deployments indicates respondents have a strong preference to add enforcement points and in-line appliances into their existing network rather than use out-of-band appliances, which agrees with Infonetics prediction that out-of-band appliances will have a smaller penetration than in-line products.
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