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