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The Ethernet storage fabric (ESF) market is expected to grow from USD 1.2 billion in 2019 to USD 2.3 billion by 2024, at a CAGR of 12.7% during the forecast period. Increasing demand for need for simplified data center management and rapid adoption of Ethernet storage fabric are the key factors driving the growth of the ESF market.

Major Ethernet storage fabric (ESF) Companies Include:

• Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company (US),
• Intel Corporation (US), 
• Dell Technologies Inc. (US),
• Cisco Systems Inc., (US),
• Fujitsu (Japan),
• Fortinet (US),
• Microsemi Corporation (US),
• Allied Telesis Holdings K.K.(Japan),
• Lenovo Group (China),
• D-Link (Taiwan),
• H3C Technologies CO., Limited (Taiwan),
• Vicinity (US),
• Apeiron Data Systems (US),
• Argo Technologie SA (Switzerland),
• E8 Storage (US), and
• Edgecore Networks (Taiwan)

The ESF market is highly competitive owing to the presence of a large number of regional and global players. Key players are focusing on enhancing their product portfolios and increasing their market share through strategies such as product launches and developments, agreements, partnerships, collaborations, merger and acquisitions, and expansions. Many market players adopted product launches and developments as a key business strategy. For instance, in November 2018, Cisco Systems launched Catalyst 9000 series switches for intent-based network. Cisco’s catalyst 9000 switches are the expansion of its previous catalyst switches, which help end user to deploy a network with smarter, simpler, and more secure. Apart from this, players have also adopted partnerships and collaborations strategies to grow their businesses. For instance, in November 2018, LINE Corporation collaborated with Mellanox Technologies and Cumulus Networks to Power Advanced Messaging Platform. LINE Corporation selected Mellanox open Ethernet switches and Cumulus Linux open network operating system for its messaging applications.

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Mellanox Technologies (Israel): Mellanox Technologies was founded in 1999 as an integrated supplier of end-to-end high-performance interconnect products and solutions based on the Ethernet and InfiniBand standards. Mellanox Technologies focuses on new innovations and technologies to strengthen its product portfolio and domain expertise in the Ethernet storage fabric market. Owing to this, the company invested ~42% of its overall revenue in R&D. The company had 35,300 employees all over the world The company has huge product portfolio includes switches, adapters, integrated circuits (ICs), systems on a chip (“SOCs”), and interconnectors. The product enables efficient data transmission between servers, storage systems, and communications infrastructure.

Mellanox Technologies is a leading supplier of 25, 50, and 100 Gbps Ethernet adapters, switches, and cables, which help drive demand for company’s switch products and provide an opportunity to gain share in the Ethernet storage fabric market. Moreover, Mellanox Technologies is one of the pioneers of InfiniBand, an industry-standard architecture for high-performance interconnects. So, the company’s products also support industry-standard Ethernet transmission protocols, which provide unique product differentiation and connectivity flexibility. The company leverages various applications such as data center, enterprise, high-performance computing, and others.

Cisco Systems (US): Cisco Systems Inc., a multinational technology conglomerate company, was founded in 1984 and has its headquarters in California, US. The company is a public limited company and employed 74,200 employees as of July 2018. Cisco designs, manufactures, and sells networking, security, and cloud-based products. The company offers products through the following business categories: switching, NGN routing, collaboration, data center, wireless, security, service provider video, and other products, and services. In the “switching” product category, the company offers user-specific switches, such as campus switches, data center switches, and storage switches.

Cisco’s range of data center switching products includes Cisco Nexus series switches that operate on Cisco NX-OS software or ACI modes with cloud-scale ASIC technology and. The company offers a broad portfolio of data center switches based on widely used technologies including Ethernet storage fabric, fiber channel, and multiprotocol label switching. Moreover, the company has a presence in more than 100 countries worldwide. The company operates in 3 geographic segments: the Americas; Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA); and Asia Pacific, Japan, and China (APJC).

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company (US) is an American multinational IT company based in Palo Alto, California, US, founded on November 1, 2015, as part of splitting the Hewlett-Packard Company. Earlier, the company was named as Hewlett-Packard, now it operates as an HPE company, retaining the old business and stock price history. The company is public limited and employs 66,000 employees as of October 2017.

HPE is one of the leaders in providing switching products, technologies, software, solutions, and services to individual consumers, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), and large enterprises. The company’s core business segments include enterprise group, enterprise services, software, and financial services. The company majorly operates in the US and other countries.

In the Ethernet storage fabric market, HPE delivers open, scalable, secure, agile, and consistent Ethernet storage switches for data centers and enterprise applications.

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Ethernet Storage Fabric Market by Device (Switches, Adapters), Switching Port (10 GbE to 25 GbE, 100 GbE and Above), Storage Type (Block Storage, Hyper-Converged Infrastructure), Automation (Enterprise Data Center), and Geography - Global forecast 2024

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