Virtualization security vendor Catbird has dealt with confusion over its name since its founding in 2000. “We always get asked, ‘What is a catbird?’” Catbird COO Edmundo Costa says. Some think “catbird” is some sort of strained security metaphor about a cat catching a bird. Others imagine a bird with a cat’s head.
“I will often start a talk by saying, ‘A catbird is a bird that sits high in a tree canopy and alerts other birds to intruders,’” says Tamar Newberger, vice president of marketing at Catbird (www2.catbird.com). According to both executives, the metaphor that best describes what their company does is the idiom “catbird seat,” which suggests that users can relax because Catbird is doing the network equivalent of what its feathered namesake does in the forest—constantly monitoring the environment and alerting others of the presence of any threat.
Regardless of how you interpret the term, Catbird has been making a name for itself in the realm of virtualization security. At this year’s VMworld Awards, two of its products, Catbird vCompliance and Catbird vSecurity Cloud Edition, won finalist awards in their respective categories—the first time any company has won two awards in a single year.
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