Trend Micro is leading the worldwide market for corporate endpoint server security with an estimated 22.9% market share, according to a recently published report by IDC. The "Worldwide Endpoint Security 2010-2014 Forecast" November 2010, market analysis report identifies server security as a new sub-segment of the endpoint security market.
Revenue was up 13.2% in the third quarter from global server sales, according to the IDC research firm, with shipments of virtualised servers growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 14% from 2009 to 2014.
"IDC expects that this robust growth in server virtualisation will continue through 2014 as data centre adoption is increasingly considered mainstream in mature economies and as organisations in emerging regions look for data centre efficiencies while they rapidly increase their server investments over the period.”
“As more enterprises use virtual servers, they will be searching for security solutions that will protect the server hosting the virtualised environment; the hypervisor; and shield the virtual servers from malware and hacker attacks,” commented Lee Bristow, Product Manager at SecureData for Trend Micro products.
"With data centre consolidation, along with the rise of virtualisation, VDI, and cloud computing applications, more and more computing power and data itself are moving into data centres and servers," continued Bristow. "It doesn't matter whether the servers are physical, virtual, inside the corporate data centre, or in the cloud; these servers and, more importantly, the data, need to be secure. The server security market leadership is strategically important for Trend Micro, as they intend to continue to innovate in order to develop breakthrough solutions solving real customer problems for cloud security."
In the report, IDC defines the server security category as: "Solutions that include anti-malware, desktop firewall, and host intrusion detection and prevention software that is designed to maintain the integrity of servers. These products primarily protect the operating system of servers to ensure the systems do not run malicious software that can compromise the business applications and data on the servers. These products are generally more robust than desktop endpoint security and are available for a much wider set of operating systems (Windows, Unix and Linux). This category also includes products that are designed to protect hypervisors and virtual servers."
“Trend Micro has several solutions in its portfolio to secure servers and data in virtualised and cloud environments,” concluded Bristow. “One of them is Trend Micro Deep Security, which provides advanced security for physical, virtual, and cloud servers. Deep Security meets the challenging operational security and compliance needs of today's dynamic data centre. It combines intrusion detection and prevention, firewall, integrity monitoring, log inspection and agentless anti-malware capabilities in a single, centrally managed enterprise software solution to protect dynamic data centres. Deep Security is also the industry's first and only agentless anti-virus solution for VMware environments, enabling Trend Micro to deliver security that enables even higher consolidation rates, faster performance, and better manageability.”
SecureData Africa, part of JSE-listed SecureData Holdings, is the sole sub-Saharan distributor for Trend Micro.
For further information, please contact Lee Bristow at telephone +27 11 790 2500; fax +27 11 790 2599; e-mail leeb@securedata.co.za.
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