"Almost all the major data center Ethernet switch vendors are announcing significant new products in the coming weeks. To put the size of the data center equipment market into perspective, sales in 2013 will exceed $100 billion, divided among servers, storage, Ethernet switches, and other data center devices. We can predict that a wide variety of manufacturers will be engaged in the battle for data center spending supremacy and control," commented Alan Weckel, Vice President of Dell'Oro Group. "For Ethernet switching, the data center share will be an increasingly important metric for three reasons: almost all revenue growth in the market over the next five years will come from data center products, vendors will have to fight each other for increasingly smaller, larger offerings, and SDN is changing who owns the application and network control points," Weckel stated.
The Dell'Oro Group report examines the disruptive elements in the data center Ethernet switch market, including SDN, cloud computing, virtualization, and the impact of "white box switching." The report addresses topics such as the importance of SDN in the data center, the market share attributed to "white box" solutions, the effect of cloud computing on Ethernet switches, application delivery controller markets, and network security.
