PHOENIX, April 12, 2005 (PRIMEZONE) -- (Storage Networking World) -- QLogic Corp. (Nasdaq:QLGC), the company that powers storage area networks (SANs), today announced QLogic SAN Pro(tm), a line of products and programs tailored to the high-performance and high-availability requirements of SAN administrators in the enterprise. New SAN Pro products unveiled at SNW include SANblade 4Gb Fibre Channel host bus adapters (HBAs) for PCI Express and PCI-X 1.0/2.0 server busses, which feature unprecedented advances in performance, availability, and intelligent networking; SANbox 4Gb Fibre Channel switches; and SANsurfer Management Suite(tm) (SMS) 4.1 software with sophisticated stack management and configuration management capabilities. SANbox 4Gb switches and SANsurfer software are available today from authorized QLogic distributors. SANblade 4Gb HBAs are sampling today to OEMs and are planned to achieve general availability (GA) by September.
New QLogic SAN Pro Products for the Enterprise
High performance, high availability SAN Pro products unveiled at SNW include:
-- SANblade QLE2400 Series -- PCI-Express to 4Gb Fibre Channel HBAs
-- SANblade QLA(r)2400 Series -- PCI-X 1.0/2.0 to 4Gb Fibre Channel
HBAs
-- SANbox 5602 -- Fibre Channel stackable switches with 16 4Gb
ports and four 10Gb ports
-- SANsurfer Management Suite 4.1 -- Multi-platform management
software for managing large SAN infrastructures including
iSCSI HBAs, Fibre Channel HBAs and Fibre Channel switches -
all from a single console. Now SMS features the ability to
manage QLogic stacks of switches as a single entity.
"SAN administrators in global 2000 corporations want infrastructure that can support the requirements of their business-critical application environments," said Frank Berry, vice president of marketing, QLogic Corp. "SAN Pro branded products and solutions from QLogic are designed from the ground up to provide the performance and availability needed by enterprise I.T."
Powered by QLogic
Since 1993, over 50 million QLogic products have shipped inside servers, workstations, RAID subsystems, tape libraries, disk and tape drives. These products were delivered to small, medium and large enterprises around the world. Powering solutions from leading companies like Cisco, Dell, EMC, Fujitsu, Hitachi, HP, IBM, NEC, Network Appliance, Quantum, StorageTek and Sun Microsystems, the broad line of QLogic controller chips, host bus adapters, network switches and management software move data from storage devices through the network fabric to servers. A member of the S&P 500 and NASDAQ 100, QLogic was named to the following during fiscal year 2004: (i) Fortune's 100 Fastest Growing Companies list for the fourth consecutive year; (ii) Forbes' Best 200 Small Companies for the fifth consecutive year; and (iii) Business Week's list of 100 Hot Growth Companies. For more information visit www.qlogic.com.
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