This IT Brand Pulse mini-report includes only market leader data from the independent, non-sponsored annual survey covering six categories of brand leadership—Market, Price, Performance, Reliability, Service & Support and Innovation—for fourteen Networking & Endpoint Security products. The annual Networking & Endpoint Security brand leader survey was conducted in January, 2018 and respondents were solicited from over 1,000,000 members of 100+ online IT groups, and from the IT Brand Pulse IT professional database. Complete survey data for each product category is available. Please contact us at info@itbrandpulse.com for information and pricing.

1. Networking & Endpoint Security
2018 Brand Leader Survey
Mini-Report

2. January 2018 Brand Leader Survey
Brand Leader Survey Mini-Report
This IT Brand Pulse mini-report includes only market leader data
from the independent, non-sponsored survey covering six
categories of brand leadership—Market, Price, Performance,
Reliability, Service & Support and Innovation—for fourteen
Networking & Endpoint Security products.
Complete survey data for each product category is available.
Please contact us at info@itbrandpulse.com for information and
pricing.
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3. January 2018 Brand Leader Survey
Networking & Endpoint Security Brand Leader Survey Mini-Report, 2018 Table of Contents
Brand Leader Survey Methodology Page 4
Brand Leader Voting Definitions Page 5
2018 Networking & Endpoint Security Brand Leader Survey Winners Chart Page 6
Survey Respondent - Title/Job Description Page 8
Survey Respondent - Data Center Environment Page 9
25-100Gb Ethernet Adapters 2018 Market Leader Chart Page 11
25-100Gb Ethernet Switches 2018 Market Leader Chart Page 12
32 GFC Fibre Channel HBAs 2018 Market Leader Chart Page 13
32 GFC Fibre Channel Switches 2018 Market Leader Chart Page 14
Always-On Network Recording Appliances 2018 Market Leader Chart Page 15
Application Delivery Controllers 2018 Market Leader Chart Page 16
Fibre Channel Network Monitoring 2018 Market Leader Chart Page 17
Network Performance Monitoring 2018 Market Leader Chart Page 18
Storage Performance Validation Software & Appliances 2018 Market Leader Chart Page 19
Compromise Assessment/Incident Response 2018 Market Leader Chart Page 20
Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) 2018 Market Leader Chart Page 21
Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) 2018 Market Leader Chart Page 22
Next Gen AI-Based Endpoint Protection 2018 Market Leader Chart Page 23
Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) 2018 Market Leader Chart Page 24
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4. January 2018 Brand Leader Survey
Networking & Endpoint Security
Brand Leader Survey Methodology
• Brand Leader reports are designed to measure the pulse of brand leadership in specific product
categories using results from independent, non-sponsored surveys with at least 200 respondents.
• The Networking & Endpoint Security brand leader survey was conducted in January, 2018.
– Respondents were solicited from over 1,000,000 members of 100+ online IT groups, and from the IT Brand
Pulse IT professional database.
– Two hundred and five IT Pros responded to this survey.
– Responses were collected using an online survey engine.
• In each part, respondents were provided with a product category description, randomly-listed vendor
choices (plus an “Other” answer choice to add a vendor, if applicable), and were asked six questions:
1. Who do you perceive as the <product category> market leader?
2. Who do you perceive as the <product category> price leader?
3. Who do you perceive as the <product category> performance leader?
4. Who do you perceive as the <product category> reliability leader?
5. Who do you perceive as the <product category> service & support leader?
6. Who do you perceive as the <product category> innovation leader?
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5. January 2018 Brand Leader Survey
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Brand Leader Definitions

6. January 2018 Brand Leader Survey
January2018
Networking & Endpoint Security
Brand Leaders Voted by IT Pros
25-100Gb Ethernet Adapters Mellanox Mellanox Mellanox Mellanox Mellanox Mellanox
25-100Gb Ethernet Switches Cisco Cisco Cisco Cisco Cisco Cisco
32 GFC Fibre Channel HBAs Broadcom/Emulex Broadcom/Emulex Broadcom/Emulex Broadcom/Emulex Broadcom/Emulex Broadcom/Emulex
32 GFC Fibre Channel Switches Cisco Broadcom/Brocade Cisco Cisco Cisco Cisco
Always-On Network Recording Appliances Riverbed NetShark Riverbed NetShark Riverbed NetShark Riverbed NetShark Riverbed NetShark Riverbed NetShark
Application Delivery Controllers Citrix Citrix Citrix Citrix Citrix Citrix
Fibre Channel Network Monitoring Cisco
Broadcom/Emulex/
Brocade
Cisco Cisco Cisco Cisco
Network PerformanceMonitoring SolarWinds SolarWinds Cisco Cisco Cisco SolarWinds
Storage Performance Validation Software &
Appliances
SolarWinds SolarWinds SolarWinds SolarWinds SolarWinds SolarWinds
Compromise Assessment/Incident Response Mandiant (FireEye) Mandiant (FireEye) Mandiant (FireEye) Mandiant (FireEye) Mandiant (FireEye) Mandiant (FireEye)
Endpoint Detection & Response (EDR) Symantec Symantec Symantec Symantec Symantec Symantec
Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) Symantec Symantec Symantec Symantec Symantec Symantec
Next Gen AI-Based Endpoint Protection Cylance Malwarebytes Cylance Sophos Sophos Cylance
Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) Schneider Electric Schneider Electric Schneider Electric Schneider Electric Schneider Electric Schneider Electric

7. Respondent Profiles
Networking & Endpoint Security
2018 Brand Leader Survey

8. January 2018 Brand Leader Survey
Respondent Title/Job Description:
VAR/OEM
Other
Executive/Management
Storage Administrator/Architect
Network Administrator/Architect
Data Center Manager
Server Administrator/Architect
IT Manager/Director
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9. January 2018 Brand Leader Survey
Your environment is best described as:
Other
Public Cloud/Data Center Provider
Product Development
High-Performance Computing Data Center
Small-Medium Business Data Center
Enterprise Data Center
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10. Market Leaders
Networking & Endpoint Security
2018 Brand Leader Survey

11. January 2018 Brand Leader Survey
2018 Market Leader
25-100Gb Ethernet Adapters
Broadcom Cavium/QLogic Chelsio Intel Mellanox Other
Who do you perceive
as the market leader
for 25-100Gb
Ethernet Adapters?
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12. January 2018 Brand Leader Survey
2018 Market Leader
25-100Gb Ethernet Switches
Arista Brocade Cisco Dell Extreme HPE Huawei Juniper Mellanox Other
Who do you perceive
as the market leader
for 25-100Gb
Ethernet Switches?
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13. January 2018 Brand Leader Survey
2018 Market Leader
32 GFC Fibre Channel HBAs
ATTO Broadcom/Emulex Cavium/QLogic Other
Who do you perceive
as the market leader
for 32 GFC Fibre
Channel HBAs?
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14. January 2018 Brand Leader Survey
2018 Market Leader
32 GFC Fibre Channel Switches
Broadcom/Brocade Cisco Other
Who do you perceive
as the market leader
for 32 GFC Fibre
Channel Switches?
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15. January 2018 Brand Leader Survey
2018 Market Leader
Always-On Network Recording Appliances
Endace
EndaceProbe
NetScout
Infinistream
Riverbed
NetShark
Savvius
Omnipliance
Solarflare
SolarCapture
Viavi/Network
Instruments
Other
Who do you perceive
as the market leader
for Always-On Network
Recording Appliances?
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16. January 2018 Brand Leader Survey
2018 Market Leader
Application Delivery Controllers
A10
Networks
Array
Networks
Barracuda
Networks
Citrix F5 Fortinet/
Coyote
Point
Kemp
Technologies
Radware Sangfor Other
Who do you perceive
as the market leader
for Application
Delivery Controllers?
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17. January 2018 Brand Leader Survey
2018 Market Leader
Fibre Channel Network Monitoring
Broadcom/
Emulex/Brocade
Cavium/
QLogic
Cisco IBM Virtual
Instruments
Other
Who do you perceive
as the market leader
for Fibre Channel
Network Monitoring?
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18. January 2018 Brand Leader Survey
2018 Market Leader
Network Performance Monitoring
Who do you perceive as
the market leader for
Network Performance
Monitoring?
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19. January 2018 Brand Leader Survey
2018 Market Leader
Storage Performance Validation Software & Appliances
Ixia SANBlaze SolarWinds Virtual Instruments/
LoadDynamiX
Other
Who do you perceive as
the market leader for
Storage Performance
Validation Software &
Appliances?
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20. January 2018 Brand Leader Survey
2018 Market Leader
Compromise Assessment/Incident Responses
Crowd
Strike
Cylance Deloitte KPMG Mandiant
(FireEye)
Optiv Protiviti PwC Raytheon Secure
Works
Stroz
Friedberg
Trustwave Verizon Other
Who do you perceive
as the market leader
for Compromise
Assessment/Incident
Response?
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21. January 2018 Brand Leader Survey
2018 Market Leader
Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)
Carbon
Black
Crowdstrike Cybereason Cylance Endgame McAfee Panda
Security
Sentinel
One
Symantec Other
Who do you perceive
as the market leader
for Endpoint Detection
and Response (EDR)?
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22. January 2018 Brand Leader Survey
2018 Market Leader
Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP)
Who do you perceive
as the market leader
for Endpoint Protection
Platform (EPP)?
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23. January 2018 Brand Leader Survey
2018 Market Leader
Next Gen AI-Based Endpoint Protection
Carbon Black CrowdStrike Cylance Malwarebytes Palo Alto
Networks
SentinelOne Sophos Other
Who do you perceive
as the market leader
for Next Gen AI-Based
Endpoint Protection?
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24. January 2018 Brand Leader Survey
2018 Market Leader
Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM)
ABB Cormant Device42 FNT Geist Modius Nlyte
Software
Optimum
Path
Panduit Rackwise Schneider
Electric
Vertiv
(formerly
Emerson
Network
Power)
Other
Who do you perceive as
the market leader for Data
Center Infrastructure
Management (DCIM)?
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