I cut my workout short this morning so I could get into the office to watch Cambia Security disappear.

As many of you know by now, nCircle has acquired Cambia Security and me along with it. It's a terrific move on the part of both companies (the technology part, not the "me" part necessarily).

As we've worked on this acquisition over the past few months, I've been impressed with two things about nCircle: How solid their (our) technology is and the extent to which nCircle has been able to establish itself as a standard with large companies. For a private and relatively small firm, nCircle has an astonishingly strong presence at the enterprise level for security and risk management.

So, I'm pretty pumped about the opportunity this acquisition represents. I really do think we have a combination of capabilities that few other companies can match. Still, when the moment actually came, the transition was more poignant than I thought it'd be.

For the past two years, I've worked hard with a team of incredibly talented people here in Atlanta to bring an agentless configuration compliance solution to market and to make it as effective and as well-known as possible. That journey ended this morning when the Cambia web site vanished for the last time and was replaced by the redirects to the nCircle site. I sat alone in a silent office at 8 am as I watched the Cambia home page go dark.

Now, I don't want you to think I'm unhappy with this acquisition. It's terrific. It was just harder to watch the Cambia stuff go away than I expected. Transitions like this often are, I suppose.

So one journey ends and another begins. Our mandate now is to execute. To get the products integrated and to deliver nCircle Configuration Compliance Manager as part of a larger, even more powerful, product line. It's a pretty good company I've joined and I'm very much looking forward to see where this new road leads.