Introduction
The email filtering solutions market has been one of the hottest areas in the security industry over the last 18 months. As new threats to email and new concerns emerge, customers will look to their solution providers for leadership regarding how to deal with such threats. Email solution providers should diversify their portfolios through partnerships and new product lines and features.
Scope of this report
- Highlights key opportunities in the rapidly growing market for email filtering software, appliances and services for vendors and service providers.
- Details market growth from historical 2004 data through to 2008 for the global market by form factor, geography, European market and by vertical.
- Identifies key features and product sets that combine to form more complete email filtering solutions as well as highlighting future customer needs.
- Identifies the major solution providers for each of the three for factors and identifies their principal strengths and weaknesses.
Research and analysis highlights
The market for email filtering solutions is crowded. Despite this, solution pricing is high as a means of maintaining strong margins. So far, those that have broken away from the pack, such as Barracuda, who have priced themselves extremely competitively in the appliances space, have done little to bring down the market rate for solutions.
The next key area for many customers is likely to be the confusing issue of email regulatory compliance and, as a result, content filtering capabilities and email archiving solutions are likely to become increasingly important functions as other areas such as anti-spam become a commodity.
Because vendors and service providers typically build out from a single area of expertise, this can leave many customers with the feeling that the solution they get is a compromise in some ways that not each component will be best of breed. Indeed, this remains a key driver for software solutions because deployment flexibility is increased.
Key reasons to read this report
- Provides realistic and detailed growth rates for the core technologies in the email filtering solutions market.
- Identifies key customer concerns for each solution form factor which solution providers can look to overcome in their market messaging
- Allows solution providers to see an indecent, third-party view of not only their strengths and weaknesses but those of their competitors too.
The email filtering solutions market has been one of the hottest areas in the security industry over the last 18 months. As new threats to email and new concerns emerge, customers will look to their solution providers for leadership regarding how to deal with such threats.