SANTA CLARA, Calif.,
March 14, 2019 /PRNewswire/
-- Marvell (NASDAQ: MRVL), a leader in infrastructure
semiconductor solutions, today announced that its QLogic® Fibre
Channel (FC) technology is in its 16th consecutive year of global
market share leadership as confirmed within Crehan Research's Q4 2018 Quarterly Market Share
Report. According to this report, Marvell® QLogic Fibre
Channel solutions held a majority of the global revenue share in
2018. Marvell's leadership is underpinned by QLogic's strong
brand allegiance, unparalleled product performance, a large
installed base of customers demanding extraordinary reliability and
a long track record of innovations and industry firsts over
successive FC generations.
The Fibre Channel market is driven by the persistent adoption of
storage area networks (SANs) and broad scale upgrades to 16GFC and
32GFC speeds. Through its proven Enhanced Gen 5 (16GFC) and
Gen 6 (32GFC) product portfolio, Marvell continues its role as the
undisputed technology leader in Fibre Channel adapters. These
solutions are designed to push the envelope of performance,
scalability and manageability requirements in virtualized and
mission critical environments, NVMe accelerated storage platforms
and new SAN
architectures.
"Fibre Channel continues to be the most prevalent technology for
storage fabrics due to its reliability, performance and
implementation ease," said Vikram
Karvat, vice president and general manager, Server
Connectivity Business Unit at Marvell Semiconductor, Inc.
"With over 20 million ports shipped, more enterprise data centers have chosen to entrust their
storage fabric interconnects to QLogic Fibre Channel technology
than any other solution, making us the industry's most accepted and
deployed FC HBA solution provider for 16 consecutive years and
counting."
For further information on Marvell QLogic Fibre Channel
products, please visit
https://www.marvell.com/fibre-channel-adapters-and-controllers/.
About Marvell
Marvell first revolutionized the digital storage industry by
moving information at speeds never thought possible. Today, that
same breakthrough innovation remains at the heart of the company's
storage, processing, networking, security and connectivity
solutions. With leading intellectual property and deep system-level
knowledge, Marvell's semiconductor solutions continue to transform
the enterprise, cloud, automotive, industrial and consumer markets.
To learn more, visit: https://www.marvell.com
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Marvell Media Relations
Hanna Kang
Senior Manager, Public Relations
408-222-3780
hhkang@marvell.com
Kristin Hehir
Senior Manager, Public Relations
408-222-8744
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