{"id":1776,"date":"2011-10-21T16:44:34","date_gmt":"2011-10-22T00:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/?p=1776"},"modified":"2013-08-13T10:46:55","modified_gmt":"2013-08-13T17:46:55","slug":"businessweek-and-the-facebook-generation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/businessweek-and-the-facebook-generation\/","title":{"rendered":"BusinessWeek and the \"Facebook Generation\""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A very big day for Palo Alto Networks, indeed. The significant time Ashlee Vance of Bloomberg BusinessWeek spent with Nir, our board members, customers and analysts resulted in an article we are very excited about: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/magazine\/building-a-firewall-for-the-facebook-generation-10202011.html\" rel=\"nofollow,noopener\" >Building a Firewall for the Facebook Generation<\/a>\u201d.\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It tells the story of Palo Alto Networks' history\u00a0and points towards our future\u00a0potential. It\u00a0also\u00a0articulates\u00a0the desire of\u00a0enterprise\u00a0IT\u00a0organizations to safely enable applications, rather than just blocking them outright. Like Nir says, \u201cOur customers don\u2019t want to block Facebook. They want to use it, but they also want some control.\u201d David Cohen of All Facebook weighed in on the topic today with\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.allfacebook.com\/facebook-work-usage-2011-10\" rel=\"nofollow,noopener\" >this post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Vance also calls out a recent report: \u201cGartner estimates that by the end of 2014, about 60 percent of firewall-type purchases will be for these next-generation products.\u201d\u00a0Finally,\u00a0Gartner analyst John Pescatore\u00a0nicely\u00a0summed\u00a0things up\u00a0when he said, \u201cfirewalls need to evolve.\u201d<\/p>\n<link rel=\"author\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/114253851106284887789\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A very big day for Palo Alto Networks, indeed. The significant time Ashlee Vance of Bloomberg BusinessWeek spent with Nir, our board members, customers and analysts resulted in an article we are &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[31,54,1815],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-firewall","tag-application-control","tag-enterprise-2-0","tag-firewall"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1776"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3747,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776\/revisions\/3747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1776"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}