Cisco and EMC Announce (something)

Cisco held a press/analyst day just before RSA that included a very interesting customer visit to (and dinner with) Esurance, the Web-based auto insurance company with the flashy cartoon ads. The event started with a "big" announcement of a partnership with RSA (specifically integrating information from EMC's Infoscape technology -- where the Tablus DLP content analysis stuff ended up) with the Cisco Security Agent (so the user would be notified when they were about to do inappropriate stuff with sensitive files). The cooperation makes sense and the basic ideas are noteworthy but on balance the discussion seemed sort of premature because what was actually being committed to was vague and sounded more like a "Barney" announcement ("I love you, you love me, we're a happy family!). There was more than enough "side story" to make up for any holes however. Richard Palmer, the long term Cisco security SVP and GM is moving off to run the edge router group (a $6-7 B business!) and Scott Weiss, the GM and previous head of IronPort is going to take over the larger security effort. The IronPort guys certainly think of security well out of the network box so it will be interesting to see how they change direction and speed.