Continuous effort among IT organizations in consolidating datacenter/applications while managing an increasingly mobile distributed workforce has given rise to both opportunities and challenges. How do organizations ensure efficiency in this application-centric structure while keeping security threat at bay? Riding on this trend, the application networking market in Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) or APEJ continued to grow in 2011, with total market size reaching US$514 million. However, widespread adoption is far from reality, despite the continuous push from vendors. Market awareness has improved, but more needs to be done for IT managers to at least bring this up in their priority list. What are the real challenges in this market? IDC's Asia/Pacific Semiannual Application Networking Equipment Tracker® uncovers the current adoption trend, the market dynamics, and possible strategies that vendors could adopt. This tracker provides market size, market share, and forecast in three main market segments — datacenter switching, WAN application delivery, and application-centric networking services in APEJ.

Technology Coverage and Data Segmentation

This tracker provides total market size and vendor share for the following technology areas and segmentations. Measurement for this tracker is in shipments, factory revenue, and end-user revenue.

Technologies and subtechnologies:

• Datacenter switch (Layer 4–7 switch)
• WAN application delivery
• Application-centric networking services

Segmentations:

• Company size: 1–9, 10–99, 100–499, 500–999, and 1,000+ employees
• Vertical markets: Retail/warehouse, manufacturing, services, finance, transportation, telco, government, education, healthcare, power and energy, and others
• Deployment: Datacenter/HQ and branch

Geographic Scope

• Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (13 countries)

Forecast Coverage

Forecasts for this tracker are updated semiannually and include two years of historical data and five years of annual market projections. Forecasts are available at the regional and country levels. Examples of the segmentations being forecast in this tracker include:

• Datacenter switch (Layer 4–7 switch)
• WAN application delivery
• Application-centric networking services

Delivery Schedule and Deliverables

This tracker is delivered on a semiannual basis with tools such as pivot tables and presentations. The delivery schedule for this tracker is as follows:

• Historical data: Week 16 after period closes
• Forecast data: Week 18 after period closes