| The combined company serves more than 20,000 customers managing more than 16 million end users in 96 countries, and had combined billings of more than $50 million in the past twelve months. Marshal8e6 will begin operations with more than 250 employees and major R&D and sales operations in Orange, California, Basingstoke, England, Auckland, New Zealand and Taipei, Taiwan.
According to a 2008 Gartner report[1], Gartner estimates that the total composite market exceeded $1 billion in 2007 and was growing at a rate of 44 percent year over year. Dedicated Secure Web Gateway vendors are the fastest-growing submarket, averaging 140 percent year-over-year growth. Gartner expects average market growth rates to be in the 25 percent to 35 percent range for the next two years.
[1] Gartner, Inc. "Magic Quadrant for Secure Web Gateway" by Peter Firstbrook and Lawrence Orans, Sept. 11, 2008. |