Intelligent CIO Middle East Issue 07 | Page 75

INTELLIGENT BRANDS // Software for Business “MARKET CONCENTRATION AMONG THE LARGEST VENDORS IS DIMINISHING UNDER PRESSURE FROM SPECIALISTS, AND OPEN SOURCE AND CLOUD PROVIDERS…” At a glance… A10 Networks introduces Thunder ADC for Bare Metal from specialists, and open source and cloud providers,” said Biscotti. “The growth of iPaaS and aPaaS has, largely, not worked out to the benefit of the market incumbents.” In 2015, the largest vendors retained their market positions, but market leader IBM suffered a revenue decline of nearly 13%, falling to 25% of the total AIM software market (see Table 1). Oracle’s revenue also dropped, by nearly 4%, capturing 13% of the total market. Microsoft’s 5% revenue growth meant it was the only one of the top three players to grow its revenue. Salesforce retained the fourth spot, while Software AG dropped out of the top five — switching places with TIBCO Software. “Salesforce continues to disrupt the AIM market, with its revenue growing more than 36% to just over a billion dollars,” said Biscotti. “Salesforce’s strong performance, as well as steady growth in the ‘Others’ category, underlines the trend of cloud-only firms and smaller specialists picking up market share at the expense of traditional vendors in this space.” This trend is consistent with AIM buyers’ pursuit of innovation — not necessarily from a technology perspective, but most of all from go-to-market, business model and delivery channel perspectives. “2015 was the year that iPaaS became a serious alternative to traditional software-based integration approaches,” said Keith Guttridge, research director at Gartner. “Buyers are choosing iPaaS due to its lower entry costs, reduced operational demands and improved productivity. Vendor interest in this space is also growing rapidly, with the number of offerings doubling in the past 12 months.” More data is available in the report “Market Share: All Software Markets, Worldwide, 2015.” (For the full article, please visit www.intelligentcio.com/me) www.intelligentcio.com A10 Networks has announced the launch of Thunder Application Delivery Controller (ADC) for Bare Metal, a new delivery method for agile and flexible software appliances for enterprises and cloud providers. Thunder ADC for Bare Metal provides a non-virtualised software approach that enables on demand deployment onto customer selected hardware with throughput up to 40 Gbps. Thunder ADC for Bare Metal offers the full rich set of application and security services that are available on all A10 Thunder ADC appliances. Customers have flexibility in their choice of hardware, while still receiving the benefits of A10’s ACOS Harmony platform, which delivers open programmability, policy enforcement, and telemetry for the next generation of application networking solutions. “Enterprise and cloud service provider customers are looking for operational agility and simplified logistics while handling an increasing amount of applications and traffic in their data centres,” said Raj Jalan, CTO at A10 Networks. “Thunder ADC for Bare Metal is the latest software option to deliver our ACOS Harmony platform; enabling rapid deployment, lower lifetime software costs, and high performance for our customers that demand their choice of hardware.” “Increasingly, service providers, cloud providers, and large enterprises are looking for agile, software-based ADC solutions that accelerate traffic processing while simplifying deployments and lowering costs,” said Brad Casemore, Research Director, Data centre Networks, at IDC. “A10’s non-virtualised ADC offering is designed to benefit a wide range of customers pursuing high performance as they move from hypervisors to bare-metal form factors.” INTELLIGENTCIO 75