According to a new report, an increased enterprise preference for single-vendor SASE solutions is expected to propel its growth at twice the rate of multi-vendor SASE solutions.
The report, compiled by Dell’Oro Group, said that enterprises are anticipated to spend nearly $34 billion between 2022 and 2027 on single-vendor SASE solutions.
Though multi-vendor SASE solutions are projected to grow slower, they will continue to occupy a significant part of the SASE market, with enterprise spend expected to be $29 billion between 2022 and 2027.
Dell’Oro Group Director, Enterprise Security and Networking Mauricio Sanchez said that since the outfit started tracking the SASE market in 2019, multi-vendor solutions have represented most of the market compared to single-vendor.
“In 2023 we anticipate that single-vendor SASE will become the majority of the market,” he said.
“As single-vendor SASE solution maturity increases, so is the comfort in purchasing it all from a single vendor. The pressure to go after best-of-breed from multiple vendors is slowly diminishing,” added Sanchez.
The report says that total spend on SASE solutions, whether single- or multi-vendor, to eclipse $63 billion between 2022 and 2027.
Unified SASE is anticipated to grow at a five-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of over 30 percent between 2022 and 2027, over twice the disaggregated SASE rate.
The report further divides the total SASE market along its two components, Security Service Edge (SSE) and SD-WAN, and details how the substantial spend on both is expected to drive SD-WAN annual spending to nearly $6 B and SSE spending to over $8 B by 2027.
SD-WAN sales to service providers that offer managed SD-WAN will continue to outpace SD-WAN sold to enterprises that self-manage.
