You have heard many people at Emulex and most other vendors who sell 10Gb/s Ethernet (10GbE) gear talk about the move to 10GbE. However, we wanted to take this opportunity to share some input from the customer community. We commissioned IT Brand Pulse to reach out to their database of Ethernet customers and ask them why they are moving or considering moving to 10GbE as they make their plans for 2010 and beyond. I don’t think the results will be a big surprise to most, but sometimes a little confirmation is a good thing.
First, let’s look at some market data. According to a February 2010 report from the Dell’Oro Group, the 10GbE server adapter market will grow from $180 million to $775 million by 2013. As we know, when you solve one bottleneck in the IT world, it simply moves somewhere else in the data center. In the never-ending game of leapfrog between CPU speeds and I/O, the CPU guys have just made a big move. There are four primary driving forces of the transition to 10GbE. Continue reading…
After last night’s star-studded Academy Awards, the time had to come for the nominated to be modest and say that being nominated is an honor in itself, which it is, but let’s face it, winning is better. Like many of last night’s stars, we sat in the audience at the Network Computing awards dinner trying to be cool, but we wanted to win, and we are glad to say that Emulex’s OneConnect Universal Converged Network Adapter (UCNA) was named the Network Computing “Product of the Year” for 2010. We first would like to thank the people who voted for the OneConnect product. We really think this shows how the message of network convergence has reached and resonated with the IT world. As we have stated many times, the road to network convergence will be a long one with 
Emulex recently held its sales kick-off and asked Steve Duplessie to regale us with his thoughts about Emulex, the market, IT spending, the cloud and numerous other topics. In his own inimitable way, he shared his rants and raves. Here are some of my favorites. Or at least the ones I can publish on a PG-13-rated blog.
With all of the focus on the host side with the announcement of general availability for our OneConnect Universal Converged Network Adapters (UCNAs) and the industry’s first 16Gb Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters (HBAs) design, we can’t forget about the other side of the networking equation: the target side. After all, without RAID, tape, virtual tape library (VTL), deduplication and hundreds of other target devices, we wouldn’t have a complete solution. Over the past month, Emulex had announced some key solutions for the target side that include 
This week, both Dell‘Oro Group and IT Brand Pulse released their first reports on network convergence market share for Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) and Emulex is the leader of the market for the first three quarters of this new market triathlon. Yes, triathlon, not marathon, because you can’t just be good at one event here to win. You must be able to swim, bike and run, or, in the IT world, you have be a leader in IP, iSCSI and FCoE to win this race. Most of you who have met me know that I am hardly a tri-athlete, but that does not mean that Emulex does not compete just as hard as these athletes in our own three-event race in the IT world.