QLogic 2500 Series of 8Gb Fibre Channel Adapters Qualified by EMC: Financial News

QLogic 2500 Series of 8Gb Fibre Channel Adapters Qualified by EMC
Thursday May 8, 6:00 am ET
QLogic 8Gb Host Bus Adapters Also Now Available Through EMC Select Program

ALISO VIEJO, Calif., May 8, 2008 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- QLogic Corp. (NasdaqGS:QLGC - News), a leader in networking for storage and high performance computing (HPC), today announced that the QLogic(r) 2500 Series of 8Gb Fibre Channel host bus adapters (HBAs) are qualified by EMC as E-Lab(tm) Tested for use with EMC(r) CLARiiON(r), EMC Celerra(r) and EMC Symmetrix(r) networked storage systems. With E-Lab qualification, EMC customers can use QLogic and EMC technology to deploy highly scalable, high performance 8Gb Fibre Channel networks. The highly comprehensive E-Lab qualification process tests configurations that replicate real-world environments to help ensure customer satisfaction. In addition, EMC now offers the QLogic 2500 Series of 8Gb Fibre Channel adapters as part of its EMC Select Program. EMC Select is designed to make it easier for customers to acquire best-in-class infrastructure products to complete their EMC storage solutions and to help enable businesses to implement information infrastructure solutions.

``High density compute nodes consisting of blade servers, multi-core processors and virtual machines are driving the aggregation of I/O and the need for high performance storage networking solutions from industry leaders like EMC,'' said Amit Vashi, vice president of marketing, QLogic Host Solutions Group. ``Our 8Gb Fibre Channel HBAs, qualified by EMC, are fully backward-compatible with 4Gb and 2Gb Fibre Channel legacy products. With this latest in a long line of E-Lab Tested qualifications, EMC customers can confidently begin to migrate to 8Gb Fibre Channel storage networks, doubling performance of their current infrastructure.''

``EMC Select gives our customers the ability to easily purchase pre-qualified, interoperable SAN solutions,'' said Justin Bartinoski, Manager of the EMC Select program. ``QLogic 8Gb Fibre Channel HBAs are a welcome addition to the EMC Select lineup, allowing us to service and support our customers with the latest, best-of-breed solutions from leading innovators.''

QLogic 2500 Series HBAs -- Transforming Server Connectivity into Competitive Advantage

The QLogic 2500 Series is a family of 8Gb Fibre Channel-to-PCIe Gen2 HBAs designed for next generation virtualized data centers with powerful multi-processor, multi-core servers. QLogic 2500 Series HBAs are optimized for virtualization, power, RAS (reliability, availability, serviceability), security and management to transform server connectivity into competitive advantage. The 2500 Series HBAs provides complete investment protection by maintaining backward compatibility with previous Fibre Channel network and PCIe host bus speeds, and are set apart from all other 8Gb Fibre Channel HBAs thanks to two breakthrough innovations under the QLogic Star Power(tm) Green Initiative -- Dynamic Power Management and Cool HBA(tm) technologies. Dynamic power management is the unique ability of the QLogic 2500 to sense the type of PCI Express bus that is present and consume only the amount of power necessary to run at full speed. QLogic Cool HBA technology is the ability of QLogic products like 2500 HBAs to operate without any air flow, unlike competitive products which require fans to be cool.

About QLogic

QLogic is a leading supplier of high performance storage networking solutions, which include the controller chips, host adapters and fabric switches that are the backbone of storage networks for most Global 2000 corporations. The company delivers a broad and diverse portfolio of products that includes Fibre Channel HBAs, blade server embedded Fibre Channel switches, Fibre Channel stackable switches, iSCSI HBAs and iSCSI routers. The company is also a leading supplier of InfiniBand switches and InfiniBand host channel adapters for the emerging high performance computing market. QLogic products are delivered to small-to-medium businesses and large enterprises around the world via its channel partner community. QLogic products are also powering solutions from leading companies such as Cisco, Dell, EMC, Hitachi Data Systems, HP, IBM, Network Appliance and Sun Microsystems. QLogic is a member of the S&P 500 Index.

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