Abstract
This IDC study provides IDC' s update on the Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) or
APEJ Fibre Channel (FC) switch market data having regard to results and trends
in 1H06. This study provides forecasts for port shipments as well as factory
and market revenues for the sales of FC switches in four segments: chassis
switches, 16- to 64-port fixed-port switches, entry-level switches, and blade
server-embedded switches. This study also discusses how future trends in
virtual server and volume server shipments, deployment of storage in small and
medium-sized businesses, and competing technologies such as the Internet Small
Computer System Interface (iSCSI) will affect the competitive position of FC
switch vendors. Furthermore, this study discusses how continuing industry
consolidation will affect future developments and provides specific advice to
these companies on how to best take advantage of the changing world of
networked storage.
"The next two years will be a period of solid revenue growth for the group of
remaining FC switch suppliers, as companies continue their move toward
comprehensive, SAN-based storage architectures that support virtual server
environments and blade server architectures," says Graham Penn, associate vice
president, Storage, IDC Asia/Pacific. "As the market reaches a level of
saturation, however, FC switch suppliers must extend their focus into
file-level storage and greater management of data across the extended
enterprise. Overall, the market in APEJ is still in its early stages of
development, so renewed efforts to nurture vendor relationships are vital."
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