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Emulex Eyes 'Sexy' SSDs: Page 3 of 4

The vendor is also ramping up its 8-Gbit/s Fibre Channel HBAs, according to Mike Smith, Emulex’s executive vice president of worldwide marketing. “Our products are available now -- we have got 22 OEM design wins and we have got more in the pipeline,” he said.

Despite a recent flurry of activity from vendors such as Cisco, Qlogic, and NetApp around FCOE and 8-Gbit/s Fibre Channel, Smith admits that both technologies are in their relative infancies.

”We’re in the very early stages of the 8-Gig roll-out [and] we’re in the very early stages of FCOE,” he said. “Looking ahead, we expect to see FCOE becoming much more prevalent towards the end of next year and 2010.”

EMC qualified Emulex’s 8-Gbit/s HBA earlier this month, along with that of rival QLogic, indicating growing momentum behind that technology. Smith expects to see the first shoots of 16-Gbit/s Fibre Channel appear in 2010, and 40-Gbit/s emerge in 2010 and 2011.

Emulex, which saw its revenues drop 2 percent sequentially in its most recent financial results, also discussed the challenges of the current economic climate today.