Abstract
This IDC study presents a competitive analysis of the application networking
market and Layer 4-7 switch market vendor shares for 2007 and the first quarter
of 2008.
"The datacenter is undergoing a significant transformation with considerable
investments in new physical datacenters, storage networking, and new
virtualized x86 platforms. As a result, the datacenter network itself is
playing a greater role in the design of a resilient, reliable, and available
datacenter architecture. IDC believes the datacenter Layer 4-7 switch market
will continue to benefit from and provide a critical role in this new
datacenter innovation. As a result, vendor activity will continue to be brisk
and market share will be hotly contested." - Lucinda Borovick, IDC research
vice president, Datacenter Networks
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