Appliances are increasingly becoming the preferred means of deploying security for organizations of all sizes. IDC's European Quarterly Security Appliance Tracker provides extensive coverage of the ever-growing European security appliance market. Using this product, clients can track competitors and create quantitative market analysis. The product provides quarterly breakdowns for 16 European countries that can be used for product launch prospect evaluation, sales comparisons, and competitive analysis. The service is designed to support product managers, strategic marketers, business developers, financial analysts, and PR managers.

This service covers the following segments:

• Quarterly unit shipments, vendor and customer revenue
• Workloads: firewall/VPN, intrusion detection, intrusion prevention, unified threat management, and content management (including SCM subcategories messaging security, Web security, and WAM)
• 16 Western European countries
• Ten factory price bands
• Nine list price bands
• 25+ vendors by family and model
• Rack factor (rack-optimized, pedestal, and blade)
• Server operating systems
• Three server classes (volume, midrange enterprise, high-end enterprise)
• CPU type (e.g., x86-32, RISC, CISC)
• CPU capacity

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

• Security appliance market sizing measured in unit shipments, vendor revenue, and user spending
• Vendor market shares and growth
• Firewall/VPN market
• Intrusion detection and prevention market
• Unified threat management market
• Secure content management market
• Price band trends
• Country shares and growth

This service addresses the following issues that are critical to your success:

1. How are vendors performing in the total European security appliance market and individual country markets?
2. Which are the leading vendors in the different workloads?
3. How large, in revenue and units, are the different workloads?
4. Which price bands show the strongest growth?
5. How fast is the market expanding on a quarterly basis?
6. What has the impact of UTM been on the security appliance market?
7. How is the secure content management market performing?

IDC's European Quarterly Security Appliance Tracker is an essential tool for tracking competitors in the security appliance space in 16 European countries. The tool is updated quarterly, providing you with the latest information for ongoing business planning activities. Built on the foundation of IDC's European network of experienced market analysts, this research uses both top-down and bottom-up methodologies to match close operational market knowledge against global and regional company financial modeling. Vendors tracked include:

3Com/TippingPoint, 8e6 Technologies, Arkoon, Astaro, Barracuda, Check Point, Cisco, Crossbeam, Cyberoam, Equiinet, Fortinet, IBM ISS, IronPort, Juniper, McAfee, Mirapoint, Netasq, Netgear, Nokia, Nortel Networks, Radware, Secure Computing, Sonicwall, Sourcefire, St Bernard, Symantec,TippingPoint, Trend Micro, Watchguard, Zyxel, and new vendors scheduled to be added.

Throughout the year, this product will offer insight into the latest trends impacting the market. Deliverables include:

Quarterly data files are delivered 9 to 11 weeks after the end of each calendar quarter.

Purchase of the European Quarterly Security Appliance Tracker provides supporting inquiry time. Written analysis, trend explanations, and insights are provided in research from IDC's European Security Appliances service.

The data in this product is provided in Excel pivot tables. The ability to write and run these tables is provided as a standard feature of the application. A database is also attached to the Excel workbook. Tables can also be customized easily by clients with Excel macros to automate quarterly business planning models.

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.

Our steady growth over the past 10-plus years reflects our commitment to investing in our customers.