Trend Micro leads the worldwide server security market share

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Micro is leading the worldwide
market for corporate endpoint server security with an estimated 22.9
percent market share, according to a recently published report by
IDC. The 'Worldwide Endpoint Security 2010-2014 Forecast' November
2010, market analysis report identifies server security as a new
sub-segment of the endpoint security market. Revenue was up 13.2
percent in the
third-quarter from global server sales, according to the IDC research
firm. With shipments of virtualized servers growing at a compound
annual growth rate (CAGR) of 14 percent from 2009 to 2014, “IDC
expects that this robust growth in server virtualization will
continue through 2014 as datacenter adoption is increasingly
considered mainstream in mature economies and as organizations in
emerging regions look for datacenter efficiencies, while they rapidly
increase their server investments over the period.”

As more enterprises use virtual
servers, they will be searching for security solutions that will
protect the server hosting the virtualized environment; the
hypervisor; and shield the virtual servers from malware and hacker
attacks. “With datacenter consolidation, along with the rise of
virtualization, VDI, and cloud computing applications, more and more
computing power and data itself are moving into data centers and
servers,” said Eva Chen. “It doesn't matter whether the
servers are physical, virtual, inside the corporate datacenter, or in
the cloud; these servers and, more importantly, the data need to be
secure. Server security market leadership is strategically important
for Trend Micro, and we intend to continue to innovate to develop
breakthrough solutions solving real customer problems for cloud
security.”

In the report, IDC defines the server
security category as: “Solutions include anti-malware,
desktop firewall, and host intrusion detection and prevention
software that is designed to maintain the integrity of servers. These
products primarily protect the operating system of servers to ensure
that the systems do not run malicious software that can compromise
the business applications and data on the servers. These products are
generally more robust than desktop endpoint security and are
available for a much wider set of operating systems (Windows, Unix,
and Linux). This category also includes products that are designed to
protect hypervisors and virtual servers.” Trend Micro has several
solutions in its portfolio to secure servers and data in virtualized
and cloud environments. “One of them is our Trend Micro Deep
Security, which provides advanced security for physical, virtual, and
cloud servers. Deep Security meets the challenging operational
security and compliance needs of today's dynamic datacenter,”
informed Amit Nath, Country Manager-India and SAARC, Trend Micro.
Trend Micro Deep Security combines intrusion detection and
prevention, firewall, integrity monitoring, log inspection and
agentless anti-malware capabilities in a single, centrally managed
enterprise software solution to protect dynamic datacenters. Deep
Security is also the industry's first and only agentless anti-virus
solution for VMware environments, enabling Trend Micro to deliver
security that enables even higher consolidation rates, faster
performance, and better manageability.