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“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.”
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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.”
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