Incite 1: No Mas Box (Less Boxes, More Functionality)

Users will increasingly revolt about adding yet another narrowly focused security appliance into their network and actively examine new “simplification” architectures. New Unified Threat Management (UTM) products, using blade servers and virtualization technologies, appear in 2006 putting vendors that license key intellectual property at a disadvantage. Management of the integrated UTM environment will remain difficult through 2007.