Cloud Impact on Ethernet Switch Market Could Top $1 Billion, According to Dell'Oro Group

Technological Change and Emergence of Powerful New Customers Expected to Change Data Center Networking

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Nov 07, 2011, 09:00 ET

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Nov. 7, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The Ethernet Switch market is undergoing a technological transformation in the data center, as virtualization changes where and how applications are connected to end users. Two major trends will forever alter the Ethernet Switch market: 1) a significant technology change towards 10 GE and fabrics within the data center, and 2) the emergence of powerful new customers. To assess the market impact, Dell'Oro Group has created a white paper to analyze how disruptive the Cloud can be, how Ethernet Switch vendors are currently performing in the data center, and what our projections are for the Ethernet Switch market in the data center over the next five years.

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"Enterprises are consolidating data centers and are moving infrastructure towards the hosted environment of the Cloud. These migrations towards the Cloud are reducing the numbers of both data centers and IT end users that are making discrete purchasing decisions, as fewer, but larger, equipment purchases are needed," said Alan Weckel, Senior Director at Dell'Oro Group. "Over the next five years, vendors will expand and consolidate as the battle for supremacy in data center networking intensifies. The result is that there has never been a better time for new entrants or a better opportunity for existing vendors to gain share."

The report also indicates that Avaya, Brocade, Cisco, Dell, Extreme, HP, IBM, and Juniper are the largest vendors in the data center in terms of revenue for 2010.

To purchase this report, please contact Emily Kendall at +1.650.622.9400 x223 or email [email protected].

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