Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter Market Records Second Consecutive Quarter of 30% Growth, Reports Crehan Research
June 20 2024 - 1:17PM
As the supply-constraint-driven enterprise server and storage
inventory levels have started to normalize, the demand for Fibre
Channel Host Bus Adapters (HBAs) – which provide the
mission-critical networking for these devices – has rebounded
strongly. During the first calendar quarter of 2024, the Fibre
Channel HBA market posted its second consecutive quarter of close
to 30% revenue growth, according to the most recent report from
Crehan Research.
The Fibre Channel networking market has been
bolstered by the recent strong customer adoption of 64Gbps HBAs. In
fact, 64Gbps HBAs have recently started to see better customer
adoption than that of 32Gbps HBAs at a similar point in time (see
accompanying chart).
Stronger 64Gbps HBA adoption has been helped by
the arrival of Intel’s Sapphire Rapids server-class CPUs, with
these scalable processor platforms placing more bandwidth demands
on data center storage networks. Moreover, some enterprise
customers are looking to incorporate high-speed Fibre Channel HBAs
into AI-optimized servers, in order to access their more-valuable
and proprietary data residing on Fibre Channel storage arrays.
Crehan’s report also notes that Broadcom has
been the main beneficiary of the stronger 64Gbps Fibre Channel HBA
adoption as a result of its first-to-market Emulex product
introductions and the incorporation of key security features within
these. As a result, Broadcom accounted for the majority
share of the 64Gbps Fibre Channel HBA market, as well as the
overall Fibre Channel HBA market.
“As enterprise storage networking demand has
increased, Fibre Channel has shown that it is still a vital
technology in this realm, with robust market growth," said Seamus
Crehan, president of Crehan Research. "In correlation with the
HBAs, Fibre Channel switching revenue has also grown strongly over
the past couple of quarters, with a year-over-year increase in
excess of 25%.”
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