[February 16, 2012] Dell'Oro Group Brings Out Fibre Channel Market Report [Manufacturing Close - Up] Tweet (Manufacturing Close - Up Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) In a newly released SAN forecast report by Dell'Oro Group, a source for market information about the networking and telecommunications industries, Fibre Channel switch and adapter revenues are forecast to rise to $2.8B in 2016 at a compounded annual growth rate of about 3 percent. "Virtualization and cloud initiatives have driven tremendous growth in the datacenter, providing new and exciting opportunities in storage," said Casey Quillin, Analyst at Dell'Oro Group, in a release. "In order to benefit from the inherent flexibility provided by the 'provisioning on demand' feature of server virtualization, the storage available to these virtual servers also needs to be flexible and able to scale. SAN storage virtualization has the potential to address these concerns and we expect FC to realize a boost from this trend. Additionally, cloud storage is generating interest as enterprises seek to realize the cost savings provided by outsourcing some of their storage needs to the Cloud. This increasing demand is requiring cloud storage service providers to grow their storage infrastructure on a massive scale and we predict this to have a positive impact on FC growth as well." The report also discusses alternative SAN technologies, such as FCoE. Vendors currently shipping FCoE enabled equipment include Cisco, HP, Brocade, Juniper, Emulex, and QLogic. The Dell'Oro Group SAN 5-Year Forecast Report provides complete, in-depth coverage of the market with tables covering manufacturers' revenue, average selling prices, and port shipments (by speed 1 Gbps (historical data), 2 Gbps (historical data), 4 Gbps, 8 Gbps and greater than or equal to 16 Gbps) for Fibre Channel switches and adapters, and 10 Gbps FCoE switches, controllers, and adapters. Dell'Oro Group provides research and analysis. ((Comments on this story may be sent to [email protected])) (c) 2012 ProQuest Information and Learning Company; All Rights Reserved. [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]