Strongest growth mezzanine adapters: QLogic accounted for 72 per cent market share and improved compared with the previous year by 22 percentage points, QLogic is from the fourth quarter of 2008 as the clear winner in the host bus adapter-(HBA) market out. This the book recently by the American analyst Dell’ Oro Group in Q4 2008 SAN report”figures. According to the survey, the manufacturer of high-performance network infrastructure solutions reported 53.3 per cent of the turnover 2008 worldwide with sales of HBAs. Thus, the company improved its position in relation to the previous year by 8.4 percentage points and expanded its competitive advantage by 15.3 percentage points. QLogic was also with regard to the standard ports. The share of the total market amounted last year to 55.4 percent, this corresponds to an increase of 6.3 percentage points. Thus, the company increased its distance to the nearest major competitors by 18.1 percentage points. In the blade server market, which acted as a growth segment, a recorded QLogic particularly strong results.
In the category of mezzanine adapter, the manufacturer increased compared with the previous year by 22 percentage points and clearly dominates the market with a share amounting to 72 percent of total sales. Quote the QLogic adapters are still the industry’s highest performing and most reliable solutions. Enduring confidence, that our OEM – and channel-partner every day place in us, is the best evidence for this. Also, we are already well positioned due to our undisputed dominant position in the market for mezzanine adapter, to capitalize on the future growth in this segment. As companies rely increasingly on blade servers in their data centers. Similarly, the demand for solutions, which allow connect servers to fibre channel infrastructures.” Amit Vashi, Vice President of marketing, QLogic host Solutions Group large companies worldwide rely on host bus adapter from QLogic QLogics dominant position in the market for Fibre Channel HBAs traced among others, that many of the over two thousand largest corporations in their data centers rely on the products of the manufacturer. The modern, high-quality solutions based on the latest technology. Their use allows storage administrators continuously to ensure the availability of systems and data as well as the interruption-free operation of critical business processes. More advantages are that are even in peak times a consistent application performance can be achieved and the network can be expanded at any time as needed, and economically.