Security server appliances have become a popular and simple means for delivering security software. IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Security Appliance Tracker provides the ability to quickly and effectively respond to today's dynamic security server appliance market by keeping pace with evolving functionality and the rapid deployment of new models competing in the marketplace. Learning which global markets are growing and understanding the quarterly adoption curve for new products have become business-critical needs for security vendors, supply chain partners, and the investment community. With quarterly data as of 1Q02, this product provides insight into customer trends by delivering geography-specific product line and vendor market share information. IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Security Appliance Tracker presents market data in an easy-to-use product interface allowing quick table customization for the automation of business planning activities.

• Regions: United States, Western Europe, Asia/Pacific, Japan, and Rest of World (ROW)
• Countries: Country information available through our regional Tracker products
• Vendors broken down by product families and models
• Firewalls/virtual private networks (VPNs)
• Network intrusion detection and prevention
• Unified threat management
• Content security (Web and messaging)
• Segment measurement: By factory revenue, customer revenue, units
• Time frame covered: Quarterly data as of 1Q02

• Price bands (actual selling value)
• Listed price bands
• Vendor product lines
• Operating system: Linux, Unix, Windows, other
• Form factor: Blade, rack optimized, non-rack optimized
• Appliance rack size

1. Which security appliance submarket is growing the fastest?
2. Which vendors are gaining or losing market share? Which vendor is leading the market?
3. Will unified security appliances gain market share?
4. Which new product lines are winning customer dollars?
5. How do vendors' product line offerings compare with each other and with the offerings in the overall marketplace?
6. How well do low-end versus high-end security appliances sell?
7. Who is a good candidate for a partnership?

IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Security Appliance Tracker is essential for tracking competitors in the security appliance space. This product is updated quarterly, providing the latest information for ongoing business planning activities. Built on the foundation of IDC's worldwide network of experienced market analysts, this research uses both top-down and bottom-up methodologies to match operational market knowledge with global company financial modeling. A representative list of the vendors tracked in IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Security Appliance Tracker may include Barracuda, Check Point, Cisco, Crossbeam, Fortinet, IronPort, Juniper, McAfee, Nokia, Secure Computing, SonicWALL, Sourcefire, Symantec, and WatchGuard.

Clients receive quarterly delivery and IDC support, including:

• Quarterly data files are delivered 11 weeks after the end of each calendar quarter.
• One day of onsite training at any location in the United States is provided as well as five hours of inquiry time for asking questions about data usages.
• Written analysis, trend explanations, and insights are provided in IDC's Secure Content and Threat Management Products continuous intelligence service (CIS).

As a privately held company, IDC believes that our customers are our primary constituency. A large percentage of every revenue dollar is reinvested back into our products, including more analysts, more geographic coverage, and extensive primary research.

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