Dec 15th, 2008
Magic Quadrant
Gartner, a market analyst, publishes its Magic Quadrant reports for various industries periodically. Earlier, it released the one for enterprise firewall. I was very pleased to see that Juniper is at the leaders quadrant. We have the right vision and can execute to secure future wins.
By the way, I met the co-author John Pescatore several years ago to discuss some security topics. This man has lots of gems to offer to anyone seeking his wisdom.
The cautionary notes confirmed my decision, in previous life, to discontinue an enterprise firewall product. Only the strong can play in this tough market. All network infrastructure vendors, however, must offer network security solutions. Juniper, therefore, is a “pure-play” vendor here. I am glad to see our favorable position against Cisco, our competitor since the company inception.