Gigamon Announces Preliminary Second Quarter Results

SANTA CLARA, Calif., July 8, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Gigamon^® Inc. GIMO, a leader in traffic visibility solutions with the innovative Visibility Fabric™ architecture, today announced preliminary results for the second quarter of fiscal year 2014 ended June 28, 2014.

Gigamon expects revenue for the second quarter to be approximately $34.5 million to $35.0 million, below the company's previously stated guidance of $38.0 million to $42.0 million. 

Gross margins and operating expenses are expected to be consistent with the previously stated guidance.

"We are disappointed in these preliminary results.  We experienced challenges with closing the deals in our pipeline during the later stages of the quarter, as we continued to see longer review and approval cycles" said Paul Hooper, the company's chief executive officer.  "However, we remain confident in our market opportunity and our leading technology that created this market. We will take steps to improve our execution in order to grow revenue and improve the predictability of our business.  On a positive note, we added 84 new customers during the second quarter."

These preliminary, unaudited results are based on management's initial review of operations for the quarter ended June 28, 2014, and remain subject to completion of the company's customary quarterly closing and review procedures.

The company will report results for the second quarter of fiscal 2014 in its regularly scheduled earnings release and conference call after the market closes on July 24, 2014. The company will host a conference call and live webcast for analysts and investors at 5:00 p.m. Eastern time on that day.

Parties in the United States and Canada can access the call by dialing +1-888-438-5525, using conference code 8532663. International parties can access the call by dialing +1-719-325-2432, using conference code 8532663.

The webcast will be accessible on Gigamon's investor relations website at http://investor.gigamon.com for a period of one year. A telephonic replay of the conference call will be available through Thursday, July 31, 2014. To access the replay, parties in the United States and Canada should call +1-888-203-1112 and enter conference code 8532663. International parties should call +1-719-457-0820 and enter conference code 8532663.

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About the Visibility Fabric architecture

At Gigamon we realized that delivering the visibility essential to manage, analyze and secure the complex system that is the IT infrastructure requires a new approach. With millions of traffic flows across thousands of endpoints, visibility needs to be pervasive, intelligent and dynamic. Using our patented, unique technology, we created an innovative new approach for delivering this visibility called the Visibility Fabric architecture. This new approach is intelligent and versatile in its ability to enable visibility into the network. For more information visit http://www.gigamon.com/traffic-visibility-fabric.

About Gigamon

Gigamon provides an intelligent Visibility Fabric™ architecture for enterprises, data centers and service providers around the globe. Our technology empowers infrastructure architects, managers and operators with pervasive and dynamic intelligent visibility of traffic across both physical and virtual environments without affecting the performance or stability of the production network. Through patented technologies and centralized management, the Gigamon GigaVUE portfolio of high availability and high density products intelligently delivers the appropriate network traffic to management, analysis, compliance and security tools. With over eight years' experience designing and building traffic visibility products in the US, Gigamon solutions are deployed globally across vertical markets including over half of the Fortune 100 and many government and federal agencies. www.gigamon.com.

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