Application acceleration market to grow

NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: DENISE DUBIE ON NETWORK OPTIMIZATION
08/09/05
Today's focus: Application acceleration market to grow

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Today's focus: Application acceleration market to grow

By Denise Dubie

As the application acceleration market continues to change
<http://www.networkworld.com/nlnetop4676>, industry watchers say
the technology's role in enterprise IT shops will continue to
grow in importance <http://www.networkworld.com/nlnetop3552> -
and revenue dollars will increase for vendors.

Market research firm Gartner <http://www.gartner.com/> recently
estimated that the market for application acceleration products
will reach $1.5 billion in 2005, a 33% increase over 2004. And
the firm estimates that by 2009 the market is expected to reach
about $2.3 billion in end-user sales.

Gartner classifies application acceleration products as
appliances that "enable server/data center consolidation and
deployment of browser-based application interfaces while
lowering total cost of ownership." The firm puts the
technologies into two buckets: application delivery controllers
(ADC) and WAN optimization controllers (WOC), according to a
press release.

According to Gartner research as of July 2005, Cisco was the
market leader in the worldwide ADC market in the first quarter
of 2005, however, the company lost market share since the fourth
quarter of 2004 and was nearly eclipsed by F5 Networks. And
Gartner says competition among the WOC vendors remained
"intense" in the first quarter of 2005, as Network Appliance,
Packeteer and Stratacache led the market.

Recent activity in the market - such as Citrix acquiring
NetScaler <http://www.networkworld.com/nlnetop4677>, Juniper
buying Peribit and Redline Networks
<http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/0426junibuy.html?rl> and
Cisco picking up WAN traffic accelerator FineGround Networks
<http://www.networkworld.com/nlnetop4678> - all point to a
bigger trend of vendors offering multiple WAN acceleration
technologies on fewer appliances.

"The trend toward powerful platforms that deliver four or more
functions will accelerate as customers strive to simplify their
infrastructure, and as vendors move to grow revenue and increase
account control," Joe Skorupa, research director for Gartner,
said in a press release. "Cisco, Citrix and Juniper have entered
into this important market, and consolidation will continue as
strong platform vendors acquire promising software providers
that have not reached critical mass. Other vendors will forge
partnerships to acquire products to round out their portfolios."

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To contact: Denise Dubie

Senior Editor Denise Dubie covers network and systems management
for Network World. Reach her at <mailto:ddubie@nww.com>.
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security is getting easier to accomplish. Get a
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the latest information on wireless security trends.
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