Market growing, reports available
In case you missed it, this week Gartner released the 2026 updates of both its Magic QuadrantTM for SASE Platforms1 report and the related report Critical Capabilities for SASE Platforms2. Twelve vendors met the criteria for inclusion in this year’s reports, including Versa. You can get a complimentary copy of the Magic Quadrant report here. A copy of the Critical Capabilities report will be available here starting this Monday after 11 a.m.
The report is devoted to a key segment of a healthily growing market. Per Gartner’s figures in the report the overall SASE market is projected to reach over $18 billion in 2026, with an annual 23% growth rate through 2030. Within that total market growth, they expect a continued shift over time from “dual-vendor” SASE implementations to SASE platform adoption.
Versa four years running
This is Versa’s fourth consecutive appearance in this annual Magic Quadrant (initially called “Single-Vendor SASE” before the switch to “SASE Platforms”). The MQ report cited Versa’s comprehensive networking and security functions across the cloud and on-premises as a key strength, additionally singling out Versa’s SD-WAN, inline on-premises security, and adaptive access capabilities, all reflective of how the VersaONE platform unifies SSE, SD-WAN, and SD-LAN capabilities in a common architecture. Achieving this singular convergence of networking and security capabilities across different deployment scenarios is apparently not an easy thing to do – we noticed the later observation by the report’s authors that “Few vendors have a solid breadth of functionality across network and security (and both on-premises and cloud).”
Signs of SASE market changes
Beyond the detailed look at each of the 12 vendors’ offerings that met Gartner’s qualifying criteria for inclusion in the two reports, the evolution of the reports themselves is interesting and reflective of a fast-changing market. In the Critical Capabilities report, we note that the evaluation criteria expanded from 13 to 15, with the expansion of AI Security requirements and the addition of a “Sovereign Controls” categories.
In the same report they evaluate how they think vendors measure up across key use cases, which we noticed this year grew from four to five with the addition of the new “Sovereign SASE” use case. We certainly understand the reasoning, given our own experience with how sovereignty requirements continue to grow in importance for enterprises and service providers globally.
¹ Gartner, Magic Quadrant for SASE Platforms, Jonathan Forest, Andrew Lerner, John Watts, July 28, 2026
² Gartner, Critical Capabilities for SASE Platforms, Jonathan Forest, Andrew Lerner, Thomas Lintemuth, John Watts, July 29, 2026..
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Kevin Sheu leads product marketing for Versa's Universal SASE portfolio, a role he stepped into in 2023. He previously held senior product marketing and product management roles at Bitglass, Vectra, Okta, FireEye, and Barracuda Networks, and began his career as a management consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton and L.E.K. Consulting. He holds bachelor's and master's degrees in computer science from Johns Hopkins University and an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management.