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Marshal and 8e6 Technologies Merge
November 2008 by Marc Jacob
Marshal and 8e6 Technologies announced their agreement to merge and form a new company, Marshal8e6. The combination creates the only independent software company capable of securing all forms of Internet-based communication streams — including internal corporate emails, Internet-based email services, websites and Instant Messaging.
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.
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