Industry Recognition

December 2010
Magic Quadrant for SSL VPN
Gartner Magic Quadrant

Leaders demonstrate balanced progress, effort and clout in all execution and vision categories. Their actions raise the competitive bar for all products in the market, and they can change the course of the industry. To remain in the Leaders quadrant, vendors must excel in performance, scalability and protection, and must dominate in sales. However, a leading vendor is not a default choice for all buyers, and clients are warned not to assume that they should buy only from the Leaders Quadrant. To stay on the right side of the chart, Leaders (and Visionaries) must follow courses that are competitively disruptive, not only ahead of the curve, but offering features that remove significant roadblocks to vendor sales and buyer implementations. One example of a competitively disruptive activity might include, but is not limited to, delivering a superior smartphone client in terms of capability, user experience and user adoption that could significantly stimulate new smartphone VPN deployments.

Vendors that have pursued new technologies but have not changed the course of buyer decisions and implementations, and companies that add features to make their product more complete in comparison to the same features offered by other vendors, are not creating competitively disruptive situations.

In a mature VPN market, leaders sell broad network infrastructure product families to buyers, as well as stand-alone VPNs. Buyers of leader products include larger companies and/or projects that often stretch products in ways that uncover problems in scalability and maintainability. Quick response is essential. Larger investments in help and support operations contribute greatly to satisfaction.

July 2009
Juniper Networks SRX5000 Line - Firewalls and VPNs in Enterprise Security

Current Perspective: Threatening
Juniper's new SRX family of security gateway appliances are threatening because the new products deliver impressive performance improvements to the high end of Juniper's security portfolio. The products leverage Juniper's Dynamic Services Architecture, which allows for flexible and dynamic resource allocation across processor and input/output pools to deliver the appropriate resources to each security service (e.g., firewall, IPS) as needed.

July 2009
New York Stock Exchange Chooses Juniper for Next-Generation Datacenters Enterprise Networks

Juniper's Ethernet switching business strategy has been to cater to the needs of "high-performance networks" with the datacenter network as a key battleground to serve as a disruptive technology supplier. The NYSE win is a key validation of that strategy.