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Greg Young
Research VP
6 years at Gartner
22 years IT security

Greg Young is a research vice president in Gartner and the lead analyst for network security. Mr. Young has experience in IT security in product companies, and in both the private and public sectors. He spent his military career in technology security… Read Full Bio

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Observations From The Road

by Greg Young  |  February 26, 2009  |  Comments Off

First, I would like to thank my colleague John Pescatore for managing to get that dang Willy Nelson song stuck in my head from over 1000 miles away here

I’ve also been on the road (arg!  there’s that song again!) extensively this month between New York, Canada, Texas and California.  I’m in San Jose this week to get updates from a few firewall and IPS companies.  I was also able to fit in a few hours at the Juniper analyst event.  During the breaks I had some very good exchanges about the economy with journalists. 

Economic changes have had an impact on inquiries I handle, but not what many would initially suspect: instead of having fewer inquiries, the change is that the acceptable time between forming a question and getting the for information or analysis has greatly contracted.  Certainly this is true for our Gartner Invest customers, however across the ITsecurity industry the wheels are turning faster and the time to make decisions is shorter. 

 

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