Market research firm Infonetics Research released excerpts from its latest Data Center Security Appliances market share, size, and forecast report, which tracks virtual and data center security appliances.

ANALYST NOTE

“A wave of new spending on data center security is underway. Service providers and enterprises are rebuilding data centers, and they need new security infrastructures to keep up with the performance requirements, network architectures, and threats brought about by the move to virtualization and the cloud,” notes Jeff Wilson, principal analyst for security at Infonetics Research. “As a result, data center security spending is growing rapidly, and new vendors are finding opportunities to grow their share of the data center security pie.”

DATA CENTER SECURITY APPLIANCE MARKET HIGHLIGHTS

• Infonetics forecasts the data center security appliance market to grow to $2.7 billion by 2016
• Quarterly data center security appliance market share closely mirrors the overall security solution market, with Cisco leading, followed by Juniper, McAfee, Fortinet and Check Point
• In the virtual security appliance segment, revenue is up 34% from the year-ago 2nd quarter and annual revenue is forecast to grow at a 21% CAGR through 2016, driven by cloud infrastructure buildouts, the high visibility of security as a barrier for cloud adoption, and the rapid adoption of server virtualization
• The virtual appliance vendor landscape is a crowded one, comprising a mix of established security players, virtualization platform vendors, and specialist vendors

REPORT SYNOPSIS

Infonetics’ biannual data center security appliances report provides worldwide and regional market size, market share, forecasts, analysis, and trends for virtual security appliances (VPNs/firewalls, SSL VPNs, IDS/IPS, and content security gateways) and data center security appliances (integrated security appliances, DDoS appliances, IDS/IPS, and content security gateways). Vendors tracked include Arbor Networks, Blue Coat, Check Point, Cisco, Fortinet, GenieNRM, HP, ISS, Juniper, McAfee, Narus, SonicWALL, Sourcefire, Stonesoft, Symantec, Trend Micro, WatchGuard, Websense, and others. To buy the report, contact Infonetics: http://www.infonetics.com/contact.asp.

RELATED RESEARCH

• Latest Infonetics Security research brief: http://bit.ly/UplxMf
• Mobile security client software market expected to jump more than 60% this year
• Cloud-based security services set to surge 83% by 2016
• Integrated, hosted, SaaS security driving overall market
• Hybrid security solutions gaining traction among enterprises, Infonetics survey finds
• DDoS prevention market to grow 24% in 2012 as competition heats up
• Cisco leads tight race for web security SaaS supremacy
• Enterprises want application control solutions with broad app support
• Google tops Infonetics’ messaging security SaaS scorecard

RECENT AND UPCOMING RESEARCH

Download Infonetics' research brochure, publication calendar, report highlights, tables of contents, prospectuses and more at http://www.infonetics.com/login.

• Infonetics’ 2013 Market Research Lineup
• Cloud & Data Center Security Strategies & Vendor Leadership: Service Provider Survey
• Content Security Gateway Appliances, Software & SaaS Market Share & Forecasts
• DDoS Prevention Appliances Market Share & Forecasts
• Enterprise Networking and Communication Vendor Leadership Scorecard
• Fundamental Telecom/Datacom Market Drivers
• Network Security Appliances and Software Market Share & Forecasts
• Service Provider Capex, Revenue & Capex by Equipment Type
• Telecommunications Equipment Vendor Leadership Scorecard

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N. America (East), Texas, Midwest: Scott Coyne, scott@infonetics.com, +1 408-583-3395

Europe, Middle East, Africa: George Stojsavljevic, george@infonetics.com, +44 755-488-1623

Japan, South Korea, China, Taiwan: http://www.infonetics.com/contact.asp

ABOUT INFONETICS

Infonetics Research (www.infonetics.com) is an international market research and consulting firm serving the communications industry since 1990. A leader in defining and tracking emerging and established technologies in all world regions, Infonetics helps clients plan, strategize, and compete effectively. View Infonetics’ About Us slides at http://bit.ly/QUrbrV.

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