Brocade says it has halted Cisco from taking more of its share of the SAN switch market, according to a story in Computer Business Review about Brocade’s third fiscal quarter results.
CBR quotes Brocade CEO Mike Klayko, as saying: “Cisco did make significant gains while the merger [with McData] was being contemplated, and before then when McData was vulnerable. But now we’ve stabilized our market share,” he said.
According to CBR:
Before the end of the month market researcher Dell’Oro is set to release its estimates of Brocade and Cisco’s market share. In the interim, alongside Brocade’s assertion that it has shut down Cisco’s poaching efforts there is Cisco’s assertion that for its latest quarter its SAN sales were up 20% year-on-year. That is still very healthy compared to Brocade’s flat performance, but it is less than half the 50% surge that Cisco claimed for the previous quarter.
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