Brocade is stealing market share away from Cisco in the storage-area networking business, according to a report in Computer Business Review. It cites two market research reports that indicate Brocade is finally coming out from behind Cisco’s storage shadow.
According to CBR, Dell’Oro estimates that Brocade accounted for 51.2% of total factory revenue of the high-end storage switch market, up from 48.3% in the second quarter. Meanwhile Cisco’s share of that market fell from 51.0% to 48.2%. Separately, Synergy estimates that Brocade’s director revenue share rose from 45.8% to 51.5%, and Cisco’s fell from 53.2% to 47.4%.
CBR adds:
But in the other half of the market, where customers buy less expensive and often smaller “fixed” SAN switches, Dell’Oro says Cisco grew its share from 7.6% to 9.0%. There is no trend here, as Cisco’s share has been swinging backward and forwards between 10% and 7% in this sector for some while […] So for the total SAN switch and director market, Dell’Oro says Brocade took 66.8% of revenue, Cisco took 29.2%, and QLogic accounted for the remaining 4%.
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