Dell Oro Group: Check Point, Fortinet, Palo Alto making gains in security appliances

There’s a continuing shift among the top security appliance vendors that has Cisco remaining at the top of the sales heap but with Check Point Software, Fortinet and Palo Alto Networks making gains and pressuring Juniper Networks, according to new research from Dell’Oro Group.

The research – which includes new data from the second quarter of this year as well as projections for next year and historical data going back to 2012 – has Cisco, with 24.9% of the network security appliance market as measured by manufacturer’s revenue, solidly in first place during the latest quarter. It is followed by Check Point (9.3%), Fortinet (8%), Palo Alto (5.2%) and Juniper (4.8%) to round out the top five.

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Network World Tim Greene