Gartner Says Worldwide Unified Threat Management Market Surpassed the $1 Billion Mark in 2011

Worldwide unified threat management (UTM) revenue reached $1.2 billion in 2011, a 19.6 per cent increase from 2010 revenue of $972 million, according to Gartner, Inc. "The UTM market is in the midst of a transition of its customers from older technologies, such as stateful firewall inspection, to the latest next-generation firewall technology supporting application control capabilities," said Lawrence Pingree, research director at Gartner. "Many UTM vendors delivered new products during the last several years with some vendors performing product refresh efforts to their UTM portfolios while others worked to expand their small or midsize business (SMB) offerings and wireless UTM offerings." More on innov24