ALISO VIEJO, Calif., July 25, 2006 (PRIMEZONE) -- QLogic(r) Corp. (Nasdaq:QLGC), the leader in Fibre Channel host bus adapters (HBAs), stackable switches and blade server switches, today announced that EMC Corporation will expand the resale of QLogic SAN infrastructure products to include 4Gb SANblade(r) 2400 Series host bus adapters (HBAs) and SANbox(r) 1400 Fibre Channel switches as part of its EMC(r) Select Program. The EMC Select Program was designed to make it easier for customers to acquire best-in-class infrastructure products to complete their EMC storage solutions and to enable businesses to implement information lifecycle management (ILM) strategies.
"The EMC Select Program gives customers one industry-leading source from whom they can purchase qualified-interoperable SAN solutions," said Frank Berry, vice president of marketing, QLogic Corp. "With the addition of QLogic SANblade 2400 Series HBAs and 4Gb SANbox 1400 switches, EMC customers for the first time have a single source for qualified end-to-end 4Gb Fibre Channel connectivity."
QLogic 4Gb Fibre Channel HBAs and switches provide customers with the ability to increase the performance and availability of mission-critical data and applications. QLogic 4Gb technology is ideal for businesses that work with large amounts of information and complex applications, ranging from rendering and modeling applications to large databases.
"QLogic end-to-end 4Gb solutions are a welcome addition to the EMC Select Program," said Marty Lans, Senior Director, Storage Network Marketing at EMC. "Innovative SAN products from leading vendors like QLogic allow us to service and support our customers with best-of-breed solutions from a single, reliable source."
QLogic 4Gb Fibre Channel SANbox Switches Are Small, Powerful and Easy to Use
QLogic SANbox Express 1400 switches are the most integrated and compact Fibre Channel switches ever built, featuring 10 high performance 4Gb ports in a package the size of a home router and they are just as easy to use.
Affordable and extremely easy to use, SANbox Express 1400 switches allow the smallest business to enjoy the benefits of networked storage without having to hire a SAN expert. Software automates the entire installation and management process with wizards and auto-configuration tools. Additional features include:
-- Auto-sensing, self-configuring ports
-- Configuration Wizard software tool to simplify switch installation
and fabric scaling
-- Track configuration changes with Fabric Tracker
-- Zoning Wizard for device security
-- In-band, out-of-band, Telnet and SNMP management access
-- 1U half-width rack form-factor
-- Non-Disruptive Code Load and Activation (NDCLA)
-- SAN Express support
-- RSCN Suppression
-- "No-Wait" routing - guaranteed maximum performance independent of
data traffic
"A Better 4Gb" HBA from QLogic
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:
-- Less Heat Production - SANblade Pro 2400 Series FC HBAs consume
less power and produce less heat than competitive offerings so no
additional cooling is required and reliability is greatly
improved.
-- 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.
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.
-- Dual Read DMA - QLogic HBAs simultaneously process multiple DMA
requests, which helps accelerate the I/O performance in real-life
applications like Oracle and Exchange. (For more information on
performance reports visit
http://www.qlogic.com/products/hba_better4Gb.asp )
-- 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.
For Better Ease of Use:
-- More HBA Information - QLogic 4Gb SANblade Pro HBAs feature three
LED's that display each HBA's current speed. A unique bracket
design provides information on type of bus and the worldwide port
name (WWPN) to end users without removing the HBA from the server.
QLogic beaconing makes the process of locating a specific HBA in
the datacenter much easier.
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 businesses and large enterprises around the world via its channel partner community. QLogic 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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