SIEM Market Redux

Roughly a year and a half ago, Rocky DeStefano and I had a conversation about the SIEM market in which he predicted mass acquisitions. It took longer than he originally guessed, but...

1. HP Completes Acquisition of ArcSight
2. SolarWinds Buys TriGeo for $35M
3. IBM to Acquire Q1 Labs
4. McAfee to Acquire NitroSecurity

I'll throw another one out there - after more than 2 years of steady speculation of a Splunk IPO, they hired David Conte as CFO fresh from his setting up the sale of IronKey to Imation. Expect Splunk to be acquired in 2012, or at least try really hard.