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Gigamon ( GIMO ) expects its push into security products to gain traction as corporate spending shifts from prevention to detection and containment. Management delivered that message at the company’s analyst day on Tuesday, during which Gigamon also highlighted plans to support public clouds, starting with Amazon Web Services, part of e-commerce giant Amazon.com ( AMZN ). Amazon stock hit an all-time high on Tuesday and has been on a roll since the company posted its Q1 earnings beat on April 28. The IBD Leaderboard stock, however, is extended from both its 603.34 entry and its 638.11 alternative entry, trading Wednesday morning near 708, up a fraction. “In conjunction with its investor day, Gigamon announced field trials for a network visibility product that will work in cloud environments, particularly with Amazon Web Services,” Mark Kelleher, an analyst at D.A. Davidson, said in a research report. “This new product will provide tools vendors with information on data flows, between customer devices within a public cloud, private cloud or hybrid cloud environment. “While initially targeted at the AWS environment, GIMO expects to expand to other public cloud environments, such as Microsoft ( MSFT ) Azure and Alphabet ’s ( GOOGL ) Google. Meaningful revenue from this new offering is not expected until 2017.” Gigamon stock, however, was down 2% in early trading in the stock market today , near 30. Gigamon shares broke out March 11 at a 29.62 buy point, and so they remain within buy range. Gigamon’s roots are in selling communications network hardware appliances that analyze and manage data traffic, but it’s been expanding into security. “Management believes breaches are inevitable, and thus dollars will shift from prevention to detection/prediction/containment — which is where Gigamon plays,” Jason Ader, a William Blair analyst, said in a report. “The network is the most content-rich source of information for all kinds of security tools as the network touches everything, including users, devices, and applications. “But historically, the network was used mainly for connectivity. GigaSecure can look at all traffic and extract the right information and feed it to the right security and analytics tools.” Gigamon stock is up about 13% in 2016 so far. It reported Q1 earnings and revenue that topped estimates, and its shares touched a two-year high at 35 on April 29. Gigamon has an IBD Composite Rating of 95 out of a possible 99, putting it among the top 5% of all stocks in key metrics such as earnings and revenue growth. Scalper1 News
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