The Future of the Firewall
Microsoft, which has its corporate head planted firmly in the cloud and its fingers in many other pies, may have given up on the firewall business, but other firewall vendors - for whom that is their primary or only product - aren't throwing in the towel just yet. Instead, they're working to create "next gen" firewalls that can keep up with the rapidly changing technology. Read more here:
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/062713-sdn-cloud-virtualization-firewall-271354.html