Emulex Leads 16Gb Fibre Channel Adapter Market
Company Gains Over Four Points of Fibre Channel Market Share Over Nearest Competitor
COSTA MESA, Calif., August 15, 2012 – Emulex Corporation (NYSE:ELX) today announced that it leads the 16Gb Fibre Channel (16GFC) market with over 75 percent of the revenue market share according to both Dell'Oro Group's Q2 2012 Network Controller and Adapter report and Crehan Research's Q2 2012 Server-class Adapter and LOM market share report. In addition, the company gained over four points of overall Fibre Channel revenue market share over its nearest competitor according to the two research firms’ latest reports.
“The growth of the total data in the storage universe will nearly triple from 2.7 zettabytes in 2012 to more than 8 zettabytes by 2015, according to IDC,¹” said Shaun Walsh, senior vice president of marketing and corporate development, Emulex. “Given this level of continued data growth, we expect the demand for 16GFC bandwidth will accelerate the transition from 8GFC to 16GFC. Crehan Research share’s this view, predicting that 16GFC will represent 30 percent of the Fibre Channel server-class adapter ports by 2013, ² representing a 25 percent faster transition to 16GFC than the transition to 8GFC.²”
Emulex LightPulse® (LP)e16000 series of 16GFC Host Bus Adapters (HBAs) are optimized for cloud and virtualized environments, delivering more than a million IOPS on a single port3,while simplifying and streamlining server and storage SAN connectivity requirements, and cutting the response time by 75 percent compared to its 8GFC predecessor. ⁴Upgrading to these new Emulex 16GFC adapters is simple, with full backward compatibility with 4 and 8GFC adapters from Emulex, including a common driver stack and management tools across multiple generations. In addition to future proofing customer’s connectivity investment, Emulex 16GFC HBAs provide higher performance and lower latency even when running in 8GFC mode in an 8GFC environment, ⁴making Emulex 16GFC HBAs an ideal choice for customers looking to leverage their storage infrastructure investments into the future.
1. IDC Predictions 2012: Competing for 2020 (#231720, December 2011)
2. Crehan Research Server-class Adapter & LOM/Controllers Long-range Forecast Report, July 2012
3. Based on Emulex Labs benchmark testing
4. ESG Lab Validation Report, February 2012
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“The growth of the total data in the storage universe will nearly triple from 2.7 zettabytes in 2012 to more than 8 zettabytes by 2015, according to IDC,¹” said Shaun Walsh, senior vice president of marketing and corporate development, Emulex. “Given this level of continued data growth, we expect the demand for 16GFC bandwidth will accelerate the transition from 8GFC to 16GFC. Crehan Research share’s this view, predicting that 16GFC will represent 30 percent of the Fibre Channel server-class adapter ports by 2013, ² representing a 25 percent faster transition to 16GFC than the transition to 8GFC.²”
Emulex LightPulse® (LP)e16000 series of 16GFC Host Bus Adapters (HBAs) are optimized for cloud and virtualized environments, delivering more than a million IOPS on a single port3,while simplifying and streamlining server and storage SAN connectivity requirements, and cutting the response time by 75 percent compared to its 8GFC predecessor. ⁴Upgrading to these new Emulex 16GFC adapters is simple, with full backward compatibility with 4 and 8GFC adapters from Emulex, including a common driver stack and management tools across multiple generations. In addition to future proofing customer’s connectivity investment, Emulex 16GFC HBAs provide higher performance and lower latency even when running in 8GFC mode in an 8GFC environment, ⁴making Emulex 16GFC HBAs an ideal choice for customers looking to leverage their storage infrastructure investments into the future.
1. IDC Predictions 2012: Competing for 2020 (#231720, December 2011)
2. Crehan Research Server-class Adapter & LOM/Controllers Long-range Forecast Report, July 2012
3. Based on Emulex Labs benchmark testing
4. ESG Lab Validation Report, February 2012
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About Emulex
Emulex, the leader in converged networking solutions, provides enterprise-class connectivity for servers, networks and storage devices within the data center. The company's product portfolio of Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters, 10Gb Ethernet Network Interface Cards, Ethernet-based Converged Network Adapters, controllers, embedded bridges and switches, and connectivity management software are proven, tested and trusted by the world's largest and most demanding IT environments. Emulex solutions are used and offered by the industry's leading server and storage OEMs including, Cisco, Dell, EMC, Fujitsu, Hitachi, Hitachi Data Systems, HP, Huawei, IBM, NEC, NetApp and Oracle. Emulex is headquartered in Costa Mesa, Calif. and has offices and research facilities in North America, Asia and Europe. More information about Emulex (NYSE:ELX) is available at www.Emulex.com.
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