ALISO VIEJO, Calif., May 3, 2006 (PRIMEZONE) -- QLogic Corp. (Nasdaq:QLGC), the leader in Fibre Channel host bus adapters (HBAs), today announced that its reliable 4Gb SANblade(r) Fibre Channel PCI-X 2.0 HBAs are now available on HP Integrity and HP 9000 servers. Available from HP channel partners and directly from HP, the QLogic Fibre Channel HBAs feature a suite of innovative technology advancements that result in "A Better 4Gb." The HP-branded versions of the HBAs are used for connecting HP Integrity and HP 9000 servers to high-performance storage in HP-UX 11i operating environments.
"QLogic SANblade 4Gb Fibre Channel HBAs are optimized for performance on HP Integrity and HP 9000 servers running HP-UX 11i," said Roger Klein, vice president, marketing, QLogic Computer Systems Group. "The bandwidth provided by QLogic 4Gb FC HBAs unleashes the full power of storage applications in these environments."
"A Better 4Gb" HBA from QLogic
The New QLogic 4Gb HBAs offer a suite of technology advancements that help storage administrators in large enterprises ensure complete business continuity, maintain application performance and cost-effectively scale their networks.
For Better 4Gb Reliability:
Overlapping Protection Domains -- This QLogic exclusive ensures
that data is not left unprotected, even for the smallest
fraction of time, by generating a new check of parity or ECC
before stripping out the old check. This offers a superior level
of protection, well beyond traditional implementations.
HBA Failover with Linux -- To protect data even if there is a
component failure, QLogic uniquely offers Linux drivers that
provide customers with automatic failover and fail back
between redundant HBAs.
For Better 4Gb Performance:
Intelligent Interleaved DMA -- Unlike round-robin schemes for
transmitting data in a mixed 1Gb / 2Gb / 4Gb environment,
QLogic HBAs detect the link rate that each target can support
and transmit simultaneously, and at maximum performance, to each
storage device.
Out Of Order Frame Reassembly -- Only HBAs from QLogic reassemble
frames within an exchange in the correct order, even though
they may have been received out of order. This improves
performance by eliminating the need to retransmit the
entire I/O block.
For Better 4Gb Scalability:
Virtual SAN (VSAN) -- This QLogic exclusive allows a single HBA to
read VSAN tags in packets sent from a Cisco MDS switch. As a
result, QLogic HBAs can support multiple VSANs, each with a
completely isolated fabric topology and set of fabric services
including name server, zone server, domain controller, alias
server and login server.
QLogic SANblade Host Bus Adapters -- The Market Share Leader
Storage administrators in large enterprises are trusted with nothing less than ensuring complete business continuity. That's why the most popular SANblade HBA models have field-proven reliability of more than 1.7 million hours mean-time-between-failure. QLogic believes superior reliability is also why according to Dell'Oro, Gartner and IDC, QLogic ranked number one in market share for Fibre Channel HBA ports shipped and Fibre Channel HBA revenue in 2004.
About QLogic
QLogic is a leading supplier of high performance storage networking solutions including Fibre Channel host bus adapters (HBAs), blade server embedded Fibre Channel switches, Fibre Channel stackable switches, iSCSI HBAs, iSCSI routers and storage services platforms for enabling advanced storage management applications. The company is also a leading supplier of server networking products including InfiniBand host channel adapters that accelerate cluster performance. QLogic products are delivered to small-to-medium business and large enterprises around the world via its channel partner community. QLogic's products are also powering solutions from leading companies like Cisco, Dell, EMC, Hitachi Data Systems, HP, IBM, NEC, Network Appliance and Sun Microsystems. QLogic is a member of the S&P 500 Index. For more information go to www.qlogic.com.
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