Interesting article. I posted a longer response on the Napera blog (http://www.napera.com/blog/?p=38) but in short - the Gartner analysis referenced may be valid for large enterprise, but doesn't apply equally to all parts of the market because vendors like Cisco don't dominate the small and midmarket. There are million of midmarket customers who don't use Cisco products and certainly don't want complex and expensive solutions to solve their problems.
Todd
Napera Networks
http://www.napera.com
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Actually, Juniper's UAC may dominate
Juniper - who built its nac solution using components from its funk acquisition and great SSL VPN product - and promotes open standards and interfaces to any endpoint or network software or equipment - is in my mind the right approach that doesn't force you to get locked in or at the mercy of any specific vendor especially MS and Cisco who are known to shy away from open standards based approaches and instead force proprietary architectures
Software NAC?
I thought the N in NAC stood for Network? How can any software solution hold up when it can easily be disabled. I believe organizations should look to their trust network, security and OS vendors for an integrated solution of which Cisco and Microsoft have already demonstrated their willingness to work together.
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