Latest Reports From Dell'Oro Group and Crehan Research Confirm Year-over-Year Market Share Gain
ALISO VIEJO, Calif., Feb. 11, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Reinforcing its position as the undisputed leader in Fibre Channel adapters, QLogic (Nasdaq: QLGC ), today announced its 10 th consecutive year of Fibre Channel adapter market share leadership, as confirmed by recent market share reports from the Dell'Oro Group 1 and Crehan Research. 2 In calendar year 2013, QLogic held a total revenue share of 54.1 percent according to Dell'Oro Group and 53.1 percent according to Crehan Research. Both sources confirm that QLogic led its nearest competitor by more than 12 percentage points in calendar year 2013. QLogic was the only company to show year-over-year market share gain in both of the reports. In the developing 16Gb Gen 5 Fibre Channel adapter market, QLogic gained more than 17 percentage points in market share from calendar year 2012 to 2013.
"In our 20 th year as a publicly traded company on the Nasdaq, QLogic has shipped more than 15 million Fibre Channel ports and maintained our market dominance for the last 10 years," said Amit Vashi, vice president of products, technology and planning, QLogic. "All of these milestones illustrate the dedication of QLogic employees to delivering superior technology for OEMs, channel partners and end-users. Demand for Fibre Channel as the storage networking technology of choice remains strong, and customers choose the QLogic brand because it represents the reliability, performance and innovation they require in order to achieve success."
Award-winning QLogic® FlexSuite TM 2600 Series Gen 5 solutions, available from leading server and storage OEMs such as Dell, Dot Hill, EMC, Fujitsu, HP, Huawei and IBM, are designed to deliver the performance and reliability that have made QLogic the leader in Fibre Channel adapters for 10 consecutive years. QLogic market share leadership is driven by IT professionals in Global 2000 corporate data centers where virtualization-dominated IT landscapes and enterprise I/O performance is crucial. Fibre Channel adapters from QLogic offer a suite of technology advancements that enable storage administrators in large enterprises to ensure comprehensive business continuity, maintain application performance and cost-effectively scale their networks.
Why QLogic?
The most advanced networks demand sophisticated capabilities, and for 20 years QLogic has consistently delivered performance, innovation, flexibility, reliability and control for these environments. Breakthrough application performance gives customers faster time-to-data. Innovation delivers new capabilities, greater efficiency and maximum performance. Unprecedented flexibility connects mission-critical applications to any storage network. Reliability is backed by the highest mean-time-between-failure and the industry's only five-year warranties, and robust infrastructure management capabilities put network controls in the hands of customers.
1 Dell'Oro Group Q4 2013 SAN Report
2 Crehan Research Q4 2013 Quarterly Market Share Report
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QLogic (Nasdaq: QLGC ) is a global leader and technology innovator in high performance server and storage networking connectivity products. Leading OEMs and channel partners worldwide rely on QLogic for their server and storage networking solutions. For more information, visit www.qlogic.com .
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