IDC's Europe, Middle East and Africa Quarterly Security Appliance Tracker® provides extensive coverage of the ever-growing security appliance market. Using this product, clients can track competitors and create quantitative market analysis. The product provides quarterly breakdowns for the EMEA region 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.

Technology Coverage and Data Segmentation

This tracker provides total market size and vendor shares for the following technology areas and segmentations. Measurement for this tracker is in unit shipments, factory revenue, and customer revenue.

Technologies and subtechnologies:

• Security appliance market sizing measured in unit shipments, vendor revenue, and user spending
• Firewall/VPN market
• Intrusion detection and prevention (IDS and IPS) market
• Unified threat management (UTM) market
• Content management market, including messaging security, Web security, and WAM (Web and messaging)
• VPN market, including SLL VPN, IPsec VPN, and hybrid VPN

Segmentations:

• Vendor market shares and growth
• Quarterly unit shipments, vendor and customer revenue
• 10 factory price bands
• Nine list price bands
• Vendors by family and model
• Rack factor (rack-optimized, non-rack-optimized, and blade)
• Operating systems
• Three server classes (volume, midrange enterprise, high-end enterprise)
• U rating
• CPU capacity

Geographic Scope

• Central and Eastern Europe (6 countries): Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Rest of Central and Eastern Europe
• Middle East and Africa (6 countries): Israel, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Rest of Middle East and Africa
• Western Europe (16 countries): Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the U.K.

Delivery Schedule and Deliverables

This tracker is delivered on a quarterly basis with tools such as pivot tables and Web-based query. The delivery schedule for this tracker is as follows:

• Historical data: week 12 after period closes