Networking vendor Cisco’s security appliance market share has decreased to 15.9 percent in the third quarter of 2013 from 16 percent in the same period last year.
Cisco is not the only vendor to see decline in market in the third quarter. Cisco’s dip in share was marginal.
CheckPoint’s security appliance market share dipped to 12.4 percent from 12.7 percent.
Juniper Networks’ security appliance market share declined to 6.2 percent from 7.9 percent.
On the other hand, Fortinet’s security appliance market share increased to 6.4 percent from 5.9 percent, IDC said.
Palo Alto Networks surpassed Blue Coat as the fifth largest appliance vendor, with a share of 5.3 percent on 46.1 percent growth versus the prior year.
IDC says security appliance market revenue rose 6.5 percent year over year to $2.2 billion, as shipments increased 0.3 percent year over year to 490,323 units.
Geographically, security appliance market in Canada rose 12.0 percent, followed by Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) which grew at 9.2 percent. Western Europe rebounded from a weak second quarter and saw 7.9 percent growth. The United States was also strong with 5.3 percent growth, accounting for 39 percent of worldwide factory revenue.
John Grady, research manager, Security Productsat IDC, said: “While concerns about government spending and macro conditions at the regional level continue to be an issue, it’s obvious that security spending, while not immune to overall budget pressures, remains a key priority for organizations. Specialized threat prevention, distributed denial of service protection, and application control continue to be key drivers for security deployments.”
Top 5 Vendors, Worldwide Security Appliance Revenue, Third Quarter of 2013
(revenues in $ millions)
Vendor | 3Q13 Revenue |
3Q13 Share | 3Q12 Revenue |
3Q12 Share | 3Q13/3Q12 Growth |
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Cisco | $345 | 15.9% | $326 | 16.0% | 5.9% | |||||||||||||||
Check Point | $270 | 12.4% | $258 | 12.7% | 4.6% | |||||||||||||||
Fortinet | $139 | 6.4% | $120 | 5.9% | 15.7% | |||||||||||||||
Juniper | $135 | 6.2% | $160 | 7.9% | -16.0% | |||||||||||||||
Palo Alto Networks | $115 | 5.3% | $79 | 3.9% | 46.1% | |||||||||||||||
Others | $1,166 | 53.8% | $1,094 | 53.6% | 6.6% | |||||||||||||||
Total | $2,170 | 100% | $2,037 | 100% | 6.5% |
Source: IDC Worldwide Quarterly Security Appliance Tracker, December 12, 2013