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SAN equipment market to more than double in 4yrs

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CALIFORNIA, USA: The SAN equipment market is moving along nicely, driven by the deployment of growing gargantuan gigabytes of storage each quarter, which in turn is fundamentally driven by the creation and accumulation of video and data content in data centres around the globe, a large chunk of which is consumer-generated, finds Infonetics Research.

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SAN switch and SAN adapter revenue grew to $683 million worldwide in 3Q10, up seven percent from 2Q10 (up 16 percent over 3Q09).

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"We see steady growth ahead, with most of the economic downturn behind us, particularly in North America, which had 45 percent of worldwide SAN revenue in the third quarter of 2010 (North America houses some of the world’s largest data centre operators, media companies, and content providers),” notes Michael Howard, co-founder and principal analyst, carrier and data center networks, Infonetics Research.

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Infonetics Research forecasts the worldwide SAN equipment market to more than double from 2010 to 2014, when it will reach $6.6 billion.

Brocade easily maintains its #1 SAN switch market share position, although #2 Cisco continues to gain share with consecutive quarters of growth all year.

Market leaders QLogic and Emulex, who dominate the SAN adapter space, each gave up a small amount of revenue market share to competitors Chelsio, Brocade, Mellanox and others sequentially and year-over-year.

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