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Company's security software to be available far free
Farm9 hopes to extend its market reach by opensourcing its Harvester managed security operations center software.
By making software open source, farm9 hopes to gain name recognition and new clients in small- and large-business markets, said Guy Morgan, the company's co-founder and COO. Harvester provides data collection, consolidation, archiving and analysis of network and system security events.
"We think we'll penetrate markets we couldn't enter before," Morgan said.
Getting the software for free may make it easier for small businesses to afford the monitoring service, he said. Large companies with staff for a 24x7 operations center, on the other hand, can get commercial support for the software from farm9, he said.
Founded about two years ago, farm9 doesn't lose much by making the software free because its core business is providing round-theclock monitoring, analysis and support...