Gartner’s latest ‘magic quadrant’ 2006 report on “E-mail Security Boundary” rates the following vendors in the top leaders/visionaries quadrant:
Other leaders are:
Source: Garner, 2006
On 4 January 2007, Cisco announced a definitive agreement to acquire IronPort Systems, a provider of enterprise messaging security products.
The IronPort acquisition will allow Cisco to move into the fast-growing e-mail security market, which is currently valued at approximately $850 million and growing at a rate of approximately 40% annually. The key technology value that Cisco will receive is a strategic foundation on which to begin building a security infrastructure for unified communications, including e-mail.
Gartner Analysis : The consolidation in the e-mail security market is now almost complete. Other vendors will find it difficult to compete with industry leaders Cisco, Microsoft and Symantec in the enterprise market. IBM and (potentially) Juniper Networks are the only other major vendors that have a strategic interest in this market, though BorderWare and Proofpoint remain as respected independent players. Gartner believes the two remaining service providers, MessageLabs and Postini, will likely be acquired by telecom providers in their respective markets.
Extracted from Gartner – IronPort Buy Will Make Cisco a Major E-Mail Security Player
Based on Microsoft’s latest prototype Demographics Prediction tool at adCenter Labs Demonstration technology to predict a customer’s age, gender, and other demographic information according to his or her online behavior—that is, from search queries and webpage views.
I tried this for both email filtering and email monitoring.
The results were as follows:
Email Monitoring:
Male Probabilty: 79%
Female Probabilty: 21%
Age Group: 35-49
Email Filtering:
Male Probabilty: 45%
Female Probabilty: 55%
Age Group: 25-34
and finally, for my website URL…
www.dicontas.co.uk
Male Probabilty: 78%
Female Probabilty: 22%
Age Group: 50+
I dont know what observations and findings I can deduce from these statistics – but I hope that all my website/blog visitor are not aged 50+ otherwise my business will be in trouble. My only guess is that as I am a new site with a unique domain name, most search engines come back with “Do you mean discounts“. Does this mean that all mature people insist on discounts. Who knows – I need to wait over 10 years to find out!
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