The information security is a big concern among enterprises today and a big opportunity for security software vendors. The following chart shows that the percentage of customers looking to adopt security solutions is a healthy 15%-20% for almost all the different categories.
While the chart only shows statistics from Japan, the information security concern is surely more global in nature. This also explains why technology giants like IBM and HP are making a dash for information security market - currently lead by players like EMC and Symantec. Information security is an expanding market both in terms of scope (as new sources of threat arise in the era of Cloud) as well as reach (as more enterprise and consumers look to protect there information which they now store in 'trusted' clouds)

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The information security is a big concern among enterprises today and a big opportunity for security software vendors. The following chart shows that the percentage of customers looking to adopt security solutions is a healthy 15%-20% for almost all the different categories.
While the chart only shows statistics from Japan, the information security concern is surely more global in nature. This also explains why technology giants like IBM and HP are making a dash for information security market - currently lead by players like EMC and Symantec. Information security is an expanding market both in terms of scope (as new sources of threat arise in the era of Cloud) as well as reach (as more enterprise and consumers look to protect there information which they now store in 'trusted' clouds)
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