Intel To Buy McAfee For $7.68 Billion

Intel's buying McAfee for $7.68 billion in cash-Intel and McAfee abashed the tech apple this morning with the advertisement that Intel is accepting McAfee for 7.7 billion dollars. The antecedent acknowledgment from analysts and industry experts is confusion–or maybe alert skepticism–as the tech apple tries to accept how a aggregation alike with processors and computer dent technology will accomplish use of a above aegis software and casework organization.

Intel McAfee, Intel takes a camp about-face into the aegis industry with the acquirement of McAfee.I batten with IT-Harvest analyst Richard Stiennon for some acumen on the blockbuster news. With data still somewhat sketchy, Stiennon accepted that it isn’t about antivirus software. “You’re paying $7 billion for an AV aggregation which is crazy because there are 80 of them and they all do the aforementioned affair and you could buy one for $50 million.”

Stiennon aswell offered some belief that the McAfee accretion ability accredit Intel to accretion bigger admission to advantageous government contracts. McAfee has a solid ballast in government desktop aegis that could accessible some doors.

Forrester analyst Jon Kindervag’s aboriginal acknowledgment is beneath than optimistic. In 2000 Intel bought a solid VPN company–Shiva–and aural a few years it basically burst into abeyance because VPN technology is not Intel’s amount competency.

The acquirement of McAfee, and the move into action and customer aegis is analogously alfresco of Intel’s acceptable abundance zone. Kindervag said “I would adulation to be wrong, but I anticipate we may all attending aback 5 years from now and say ‘Wow. That was a big mistake.’”

McAfee’s CEO Dave DeWalt discussed why the amalgamation of McAfee and Intel makes sense. “The amount of affiliated accessories is accepted to abound from 1 billion to 50 billion by 2020, according to industry estimates. This atomic advance of Internet and IP-enabled accessories is about-face communication, accord and business opportunities for individuals and organizations about the world.”

DeWalt elaborates “We are abutting armament to accouterment this next bearing cybersecurity issue, which impacts anybody and annihilation abutting to the Internet. Aegis will be a third colonnade in Intel’s strategy, next to ability able achievement and Internet connectivity. By bringingMcAfee ’s aegis DNA to Intel, we can action bigger solutions and articles to the market. By next year, we will acquaint new aegis offerings as a aftereffect of our collaboration.”

George Kurtz, Global CTO of McAfee, explains in a blog column “While you may ask “Why?” – It makes absolute faculty to me. Given the accepted challenges in ambidextrous with the admeasurement of baneful malware, bringing software afterpiece to silicon will accommodate a absolute advantage for consumers and businesses. Beating aback the course of malware admeasurement by alteration the bold on the bad guys is an agitative proposition.”

At face value, it seems like an “oil and water” array of purchase–like the blighted accretion of Skype by eBay, but conceivably there is some admirable plan or atom of ability that we will accept added absolutely as the dust settles and the operations ofMcAfee and Intel become integrated. It could be a ablaze move, or a huge mistake