WW SAN FC Switch and Adapter Equipment Market Totaled $593 Million in 2Q14

Market research firm Infonetics Research released vendor market share and preliminary analysis from its 2Q14 SAN and Converged Data Center Network Equipment report, which tracks SAN FC switches and HBAs and converged data center network adapters and switch ports-in-use for storage.

“Having completed its acquisition of Brocade’s adapter business and Broadcom’s Ethernet controller business, QLogic moved just ahead of Cisco to take the number-three market revenue share slot in converged data center network adapters in the second quarter of 2014,” says Cliff Grossner, Ph.D., directing analyst for data center, cloud, and SDN, Infonetics Research. “With the addition of Broadcom’s controllers to its product mix, QLogic intends to focus on increased CPU off-loading.”

2Q14 SAN/converged data center market highlights
The global converged data center network adapter market-including iSCSI network adapters, converged network adapters (CNAs), and universal network adapters-grew 3% sequentially in 2Q14, to $87.7 million, with CNAs in the lead.

Intel’s data center network adapter revenue was up 17% quarter-over-quarter in 2Q14.

Worldwide SAN FC switch and adapter equipment revenue totaled $593 million in 2Q14, a 0.2% increase from 1Q14, and a 4% decrease from 2Q13.

Though 16Gb accounted for nearly half of overall FC revenue in 2Q14, the downward trend in the FC market continues.

Brocade remains the unchallenged leader in the FC SAN market, and 69% of its FC SAN revenue comes from 16Gb.

Cisco’s FC SAN revenue is getting a push from recently added 16Gb on its fixed switches

Infonetics’ quarterly SAN equipment and converged data center network report provides worldwide and regional market size, vendor market share, forecasts through 2018, analysis, and trends for chassis and fixed FC switches; FC HBAs; converged data center switch ports-in-use for storage (iSCSI, FCoE, FC-to-FCoE); and converged data center network adapters (iSCSI, CNAs, universal).

Vendors tracked: Alcatel-Lucent, Arista, ATTO, Brocade, Cisco, Dell, Emulex, HP, IBM (BNT), Intel, Juniper, QLogic, others.