But assimilating the HPE and Micro Focus portfolios and sales and marketing engines will take time, creating opportunity for competitors such as IBM and Dell Technologies (with RSA) to leverage the organizational disruption in HPE's software business unit and demonstrate their offerings to HPE security customers. HPE's recent security divestitures and current spin-merge will set off major repercussions in the security market. Technology alliance partners such as FireEye, Fortinet, Malwarebytes and Venafi; professional service providers and systems integrations partners such as PwC and Deloitte; and security-focused reseller partners will need to reassess their relationships with HPE, Micro Focus, Trend Micro and CSC. Shifting loyalties and changing margins will require strategy adjustments for all of these companies before the HPE-Micro Focus agreement is finalized in 2017.