Over 2000 enterprises switched to Sophos during the quarter.
Sophos, a world leader in IT security and control, today
announced significant growth for its final quarter, ending March
31, 2007, led by the North American market. Sophos's worldwide
bookings increased 40% with growth in North America topping 70%
compared to the same quarter last year. The company also
experienced strong growth in both Europe and Asia Pacific.
The percentage of growth at Sophos, which is headquartered in
Boston, MA and Oxford, UK, substantially exceeded that of Symantec
and McAfee.
"We're seeing a considerable rise in competitive displacements,
which are primarily customers switching from legacy security
vendors Symantec or McAfee to Sophos. Over 2000 enterprises
switched to Sophos during the quarter from our competitors," said
Steve
Munford, CEO of Sophos. "Companies are finding that they don't
have to live with the pain of their existing solutions, and that
there is an alternative that can deliver considerable benefits.
Sophos is uniquely positioned to deliver a single client and
integrated policies at desktops and gateways, fighting the threat
and lowering management complexity and cost."
These results exclude the effect of the purchase of
leading Network Access Control (NAC) vendor, Endforce Inc. in
January, which is expected to contribute more flagship account wins
in the current quarter. One example of Sophos's success at
displacing other security vendors was the announcement
last quarter that Miami-Dade County Public Schools, the fourth
largest school district in the US, had seamlessly accomplished the
switch from McAfee for its 90,000 strong highly distributed
network.
"NAC is a great driver of interest in our complete security and
control platform of web, email and endpoint solutions," continued
Munford. "We anticipate further major corporate defections from
Symantec and McAfee as the market recognizes that there is a
serious challenger to the legacy security vendors."
More than 100 million users in 150 countries rely on Sophos as the best protection against complex threats and data loss. Sophos is committed to providing security and data protection solutions that are simple to manage, deploy and use and that deliver the industry's lowest total cost of ownership. Sophos offers award-winning encryption, endpoint security, web, email, and network access control solutions backed by SophosLabs - a global network of threat intelligence centers. With more than two decades of experience, Sophos is regarded as a leader in security and data protection by top analyst firms and has received many industry awards.
Sophos is headquartered in Boston, US and Oxford, UK. More information is available at www.sophos.com.