Few technology sectors are as hot as secure access service edge (SASE). Gartner, the analyst firm that coined the term, predicts in its latest SASE forecast that, over the next five years, the market for SASE will grow at a whopping compound annual growth rate of 29%, reaching over $25 billion by 2027. “The underlying SASE products that buyers will use will be split between single-vendor and dual-vendor approaches,” Gartner predicts

SASE, of course, is a category we're reporting on aggressively at SDxCentral. In addition to covering new products and trends, we're also watching which vendors you're tracking. As an SDxCentral reader, you're probably familiar with our Company Directory. If you aren't, we'd like you to be. We think it's a practical resource for you -- we track more than 1,600 technology companies and include facts such as the number of employees, annual revenue, acquisitions we're tracking, SDxCentral coverage, press releases about the company and more.

By seeing which company directory entries you, our readers, visit most often, we learn what companies you're most interested in to help shape our coverage. For example, these are the 10 most popular SASE articles published in the last 90 days and below that are the most-visited companies in the SASE section of our Directory.

  1. Zscaler finally launches SD-WAN, targets surging single-vendor SASE market
  2. 6 SASE and SD-WAN trends to watch
  3. Will HPE eliminate Juniper Networks’ SASE in favor of Aruba plus Axis?
  4. Dell’Oro predictions: SASE market to hit $10B in 2024, Zscaler and Cisco continue as leaders
  5. Broadcom creates single-vendor SASE from VMware and Symantec
  6. Why successful SASE implementations rely on consultants and professional services
  7. Fortinet's SASE and security operations (SecOps) shift pays off, drives billings upward
  8. Cato Networks unveils SASE-based extended detection and response (XDR), touts platform approach
  9. GTT taps Fortinet for single-vendor SASE
  10. Netskope targets the midmarket with single-vendor SASE product

These are SASE companies most visited in the SDxCentral, for the last  90 and 365 days. While the players don't vary greatly over the two time periods, their placement on the list shows us which companies you're researching.

SASE company directory listings visited Past 90 days Past 365 days Cato Networks  VMware  VMware  Cato Networks  Zscaler  Cisco  Cisco  Aruba Networks  Aruba Networks  Zscaler  Palo Alto Networks  Palo Alto Networks  Juniper Networks  Juniper Networks  Check Point Software Technologies  Check Point Software Technologies  Aryaka Networks  Aryaka Networks  Forcepoint  Forcepoint  Versa Networks  Fortinet  Fortinet  Versa Networks  Barracuda Networks  Cloudflare  Axis Security  Barracuda Networks  Perimeter 81  Netskope  Cradlepoint  Cradlepoint  Netskope  Axis Security  Cloudflare  Perimeter 81  SonicWall  SonicWall  Open Systems AG  Open Systems AG 

 

It's interesting to note the top half of the list is dominated by single-vendor SASE companies, which Gartner defines as vendors that offer multiple converged-network and security-as-a-service capabilities, including SD-WAN, secure web gateway (SWG), cloud access security broker (CASB), network firewall and zero-trust network access. In Gartner's most recent Magic Quadrant report on single-vendor SASE, it identified only Palo Alto Networks as a category leader, Cato Networks,Versa Networks and Fortinet are cited as challengers. Cisco and Forcepoint are classified as visionaries, and VMware and Juniper Networks as cited as niche players.

At the time of its evaluation (April 2023) the following vendors didn't meet Gartner's qualifications for inclusion and are listed by the analyst firm as honorable mentions: Check Point Software, Cloudflare, Cradlepoint, HPE (Aruba) and Netskope as honorable mentions. However, all are frequently searched for by SDxCentral readers.

You also showed us you're clearly interested in the fallout from majors mergers and acquisitions as evidenced by the articles you've read -- and continue to read -- about VMware/Broadcom, HPE (Aruba) and Juniper Networks and directory entries you visited.

Just the top of the directory

SASE is just one of 13 categories in our Company Directory. We hope you visit it often and please reach out to me if you have suggestions on how to make it more useful to you. And if you're in the process of buying and/or deploying a SASE product, we'd love to hear from you about your decision process.