CALIFORNIA, USA: Fibre channel switch revenues surpassed $476 million in 1Q12, the highest ever for a first quarter, finds Dell’Oro Group in its Storage Area Network (SAN) quarterly report.
“Brocade has had two consecutive strong Fibre Channel switch quarters, calendar 1Q12 being their best ever for Fibre Channel switch revenue, reaching just under $340 million. Fibre Channel continues to have legs and, while the unprecedented growth in unstructured data is increasing the need for file based storage alternatives, we have learned that Fibre Channel SAN storage is also being deployed in cloud service provider infrastructures alongside NAS systems,“ said Casey Quillin, senior analyst, Dell’Oro Group.
Results of the quarter have culminated in Brocade gaining six points of revenue share in 1Q12, reaching above 71, and the highest since 4Q09.
“With Brocade’s momentum, the continued ramp of Intel’s Romley platform, and Cisco’s fiscal year end and strongest month coming in July, we expect to see strength in the overall Fibre Channel market in the second half of 2012“ added Quillin.