One of Orange County’s great rivalries isn’t as close as it used to be.
Aliso Viejo-based QLogic Corp. has upped its lead over Costa Mesa’s Emulex Corp. in a piece of profitable electronics used in data storage networks.
QLogic held 49.2% of the market for host bus adapters last year, according to Redwood City-based market tracker Dell’Oro Group.
The company’s share of the market last was up 13% from 2005.
Host bus adapter are circuit boards that link computers that make up data storage networks. They allow for data to be accessed across a network by multiple servers and users. They’re a staple of corporate networks and other big data repositories.
Emulex came in at 38% of the market last year, down from 42% in 2005.
The company was impacted by a delay in servers from IBM Corp.
For more on this story, see the March 5 edition of the Business Journal.
