SAN switch and adaptor market in North America to reach $2,952 million by 2014

DUBLIN, IRELAND: Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Storage Area Network Switch and Adaptor Market in North America 2010-2014" report to its offering.

One of the key factors contributing to this market growth is the growing need for organizations to reduce the complexity of network infrastructure for better storage network infrastructure. The market has also been witnessing an increasing amount of security features being added to the device to better secure organizational storage networks. However, the rapid evolution of SAN technology forcing end-users to delay equipment purchase could pose a challenge to the growth of this market.

Key vendors dominating this market include Brocade, Cisco, QLogic, and Emulex.

Key findings:
* Increasing need to reduce the organizational storage administration costs,
* Rapid evolution of storage technology delaying equipment purchase, and
* Increasing adoption of Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE).