The Global Market for Data Center Security is Projected to Reach US$10.86 Billion by 2020
Focus on Implementing Security Best Practices in Data
Centers Drives the Global Data Center Security Market, According to a New
Report by Global Industry Analysts, Inc.
GIA launches comprehensive analysis of
industry segments, trends, growth drivers, market share, size and demand
forecasts on the global Data Center Security market. The global market for Data Center Security is
projected to reach US$10.86 billion by 2020, driven by the growing focus on implementing security best practices in
the data center against the backdrop of the emergence of new security threats presented
by the convergence of next-generation IT technologies.
The information age has heralded a new
era of immense data creation, and data centers have emerged as the information powerhouse
of modern day organizations. Virtually every organization across the globe,
whether public or privately owned, maintain huge volumes of complex data
related to their line of businesses thus requiring them to have dedicated data
centers capable of capturing, storing and managing the same. Data centers help
organizations leverage the power of digital information by enabling effective storage,
management and availability of corporate data to users anytime and anywhere. Given
the role of the datacenter as a repository of sensitive business information,
the data center presents itself as a large vulnerable attack area for potential
threats. Logical and physical security solutions and related services against
data breaches are therefore growing in importance and popularity.
The modern datacenter is a “blended
datacenter” running on a combination of virtual, physical, and cloud-based
resources. A large percentage of enterprises still continue to manage mixed IT
resources, which poses unique security challenges. The confluence of these
technologies is the dynamic operation of a data center and the increasing
fluidity of the boundaries surrounding the data center. Every new computing
technology integrated into the datacenter adds an additional layer of
complexity and loophole for threat incursion. Virtualization,
for instance, has been witnessing exploding growth and adoption as the key
foundation to cloud computing. Virtualization with server consolidation at its
core brings with it a unique threat of data hacking quite unlike physical
servers. Especially vulnerable are servers which are migrated from behind a
private firewall into cloud-based virtual hosts. Growing awareness among
organizations over the perils of security breaches in a mixed IT environment
will therefore drive the data center security market in the coming years. With
Internet communications becoming central to modern datacenters, end-to-end
traffic patterns in data center networks are rapidly changing. Adoption of
virtual machines (VMs) and migration to service-oriented architecture and popularity
of cloud computing services are fuelling Inter-DC and east-west traffic. The
trend is making obsolete the traditional “one size fits all” approach to
security. “Data hair pinning”, a traditional datacenter security solution, is becoming
increasingly inefficient, creating data trombone issues. Opportunities in the
market are therefore ripe for superior alternatives for securing east-west DC
traffic.
Other factors driving growth in the
market include growing number and magnitude of datacenter security breaches; rise
in the number of co-location data centers; growing popularity of cloud based security
services; and stringent data safety compliance needs.
As stated by the new market research report
on Data Center Security, the United States represents the largest market worldwide. Asia-Pacific
ranks as the fastest growing market with a CAGR of 19% over the analysis
period. Key factors supporting Asia’s robust growth include increased data
center outsourcing to major Asian countries and the ensuing demand for data
center resources, space, and power; and growing number of software-defined data
centers in the region supported by the rise in the number of cloud ready Asian countries.
Major players in the market include Check
Point Software Technologies LTD., Cisco Systems, Inc, Citrix Systems, Inc.,
Dell Inc., EMC Corporation, Fortinet, Inc, Hewlett Packard Development Company,
Honeywell Building Solutions, International Business Machines Corporation,
Juniper Networks, Inc., McAfee, Inc, Siemens AG., Symantec Corporation, Trend
Micro, Inc., and VMware, Inc. among others.
The research report titled
“Data
Center Security: A Global Strategic Business Report” announced by
Global Industry Analysts Inc., provides a
comprehensive review of market trends, issues, drivers, mergers,
acquisitions and other strategic industry activities of global companies. The report provides market estimates and
projections for all major geographic markets such as the US, Canada, Japan,
Europe (France, Germany, Italy, UK, Spain, Russia and Rest of Europe),
Asia-Pacific (China, India, South Korea, and Rest of Asia-Pacific), Latin America
(Brazil and Rest of Latin America), and Rest of World.
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