QLogic is citing new studies from both the Dell’Oro Group and Crehan Research that verify the company has increased its share of the the Fibre Channel Over Ethernet market in the second quarter of 2012. According to the research firms’ two separate reports the company generated more than 18 percent more revenue in the period than its nearest competitor.

Amit Vashi, vice president of marketing for QLogic’s host solutions group, credits this growth to an increase in demand for its easy-to-implement drivers and the rising popularity of E5-2600-based  servers.

“The ecosystem of 10Gb Ethernet solutions and Intel Xeon Processor E5-2600-based servers is rapidly permeating the marketplace, and that trend is driving up the attach-rate for QLogic 10GbE FCoE adapters,” said Amit Vashi, vice president of marketing, Host Solutions Group, QLogic. “These share gains reported by Dell’Oro and Crehan serve as evidence that customers prefer the QLogic brand because of our battle-tested, widely adopted software stack, which makes it easy for customers to migrate seamlessly to these next-generation platforms.”

QLogic has had a weak last quarter but it’s performing well in its core markets.  At the same time, the company doesn’t seem to be hesitant when it comes to expanding to territories either: it recently debuted new flash-powered PCIe adapter cards that offer less latency than competing offerings from the likes of industry rivals.

IBM’s acquisition of flash storage firm TMS earlier this month sent ripples through the industry, pressuring a lot of other vendors to get their feet wet as well. HP is among them but the hardware giant – which also happens to be one of QLogic’s most prominent long-time partners – has decided to focus more on the networking market lately.

The company rolled out new firmware for one of its most popular data center switches in an attempt to capitalize on the emerging software-defined networking trend, which  Cisco hasn’t committed to as of yet.