Security appliances are proving extremely popular in Europe, and over recent years have become the preferred solution form-factor for delivering security to vendors, channel partners, and customers. Security appliances have proliferated in virtually all security application areas as a result of the benefits they offer, such as ease of use and management, performance, and cost benefits. IDC's European Security Appliances service provides extensive coverage of the European security appliance market. This service is designed to support product managers, strategic marketers, business developers, financial analysts, and PR managers.

This service covers the following segments of the European security appliance market:

• Firewall/VPN
• Intrusion detection system (IDS)
• Intrusion prevention system (IPS)
• Unified threat management (UTM)
• SSL VPN
• Secure content management (messaging security, gateway antivirus, and URL filtering)
• 16 Western European countries
• Unit shipments, vendor revenue, and user spending

Throughout the year, this service will address the following topics:

• Market sizing and growth
• Security appliance workload trends
• Vendor shares, growth, strategies, profiles, and product announcements
• Country trends
• Five-year forecasts
• End-user perceptions and spending intentions
• Competitive vendor positioning

Our research addresses the following issues that are critical to your success:

1. How are vendors performing?
2. What trends are being witnessed in the different security appliance market segments?
3. What trends are being witnessed in the individual country markets?
4. How large, in units and revenue, are the different markets?
5. Where are the growth opportunities in the European security appliance market?
6. What has been the impact of UTM on the security appliance market?
7. How is the secure content management market performing?
8. What areas are users planning to invest in?

IDC's European Security Appliances service examines how security appliance vendors are positioning themselves to compete in the European security appliance market. This service reviews strategies, market positioning, and future direction of providers in the European security appliance market including:

3com/TippingPoint, Arkoon, Astaro, Aventail, Barracuda Networks, Borderware, Celestix, Check Point, CipherTrust, Cisco, Clearswift, Crossbeam, Equiinet, F5 Networks, Fortinet, Internet Security Systems, Ironport, Juniper, McAfee, Mirapoint, Netasq, Network Engines, Nokia, Nortel Networks, Proofpoint, Pyramid, Radware, RimApp, Secure Computing, Servgate, SonicWALL, Sourcefire, Streamshield, Surfcontrol, Symantec, Tumbleweed, WatchGuard, and Whale Communications.

Throughout the year, this service will offer insight into the latest trends impacting the market. Potential studies include:

This study provides an overview and analysis of the Western European security appliance market for the period 2006-2011. It includes a review of 2006 with vendor shares and a five-year forecast for 2007-2011. Forecasts are provided for multiple market segments as listed in the Markets Covered section.

IDC's European Hardware User Survey 2007 identifies business computer hardware purchasers' current technology and infrastructure deployments and spending intentions for 2006. In this study, IDC presents the results from the section of the survey on security appliances.

These updates present the key findings from IDC's European Quarterly Security Appliance Tracker service in the form of slide sets, on a quarterly basis.

These updates discuss a selection of news related to the European security appliance market each month.

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