ALISO VIEJO, Calif., March 19, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- QLogic Corp. (Nasdaq:QLGC), the leader in Fibre Channel host bus adapters (HBAs), today announced that as a result of its 2006 shipments, it now has the largest installed base of 4Gb and 2Gb Fibre Channel HBA ports of any supplier. Data from the Dell'Oro Group 4Q2006 SAN Report shows that the installed base of QLogic 4Gb and 2Gb Fibre Channel HBA ports is now 2.88 million, compared to 2.74 million for the nearest competitor, giving QLogic the largest installed base of 4Gb and 2Gb Fibre Channel HBA ports in the world. This installed base leadership of Fibre Channel ports was achieved without including the relatively new mezzanine card HBA market for blade servers, in which QLogic is also firmly established as the leader. The Dell'Oro report also shows that in 2006 QLogic became the first company to ship one million Fibre Channel HBA ports in a single year. The figures show that QLogic shipped 1.02 million Fibre Channel HBA ports last year, outpacing its nearest competitor by more than a quarter million ports.
"While these are two major milestones for QLogic, they also underscore the broad acceptance of Fibre Channel from an industry point of view," said Roger Klein, vice president and general manager, QLogic Computer Systems Group. "Global 2000 corporations have made Fibre Channel the standard for high performance storage networking solutions in the data center, and recognize the reliability of QLogic HBAs, the only Fibre Channel host bus adapters to offer a five year warranty plan."
SANblade: Top Enterprise HBA
QLogic market share leadership is driven by IT professionals in Global 2000 corporate datacenters that are deploying SANblade Fibre Channel HBAs. It's not surprising when you consider that SANblade HBAs deliver market leading performance and reliability across the widest range of server and operating systems (OS) platforms. SANblade(r) HBAs from QLogic 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.
Market Leading Performance -- SANblade HBAs deliver market leading performance for enterprise applications. Using database driven Online Transaction Processing (OLTP), Web, and Analytical Processing (OLAP) workloads common in datacenters, test results validate that QLogic 4Gb HBAs deliver 33 percent higher performance with Oracle(r) workloads than the leading competitor. A white paper with a detailed description of the test environment and results can be downloaded from http://www.qlogic.com/knowledgecenter/briefs_papers.asp.
The Widest Range of Server and OS Support -- QLogic pioneered Fibre Channel HBAs for blade servers, Linux operating systems, and VMware server virtualization, the fastest growing server and operating system platforms. That's why many server administrators are deploying a single common Fibre Channel HBA infrastructure consisting of SANblade HBAs for rack, tower and blade servers hosting the Linux, Windows, Solaris, and VMware operating systems and many more.
About QLogic
QLogic is a leading supplier of high-performance storage networking solutions, producing the controller chips, host bus adapters (HBAs) 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, iSCSI routers and storage services platforms for enabling advanced storage management applications. The company is also a leading supplier of InfiniBand switches and InfiniBand host channel adapters for the emerging High Performance Computing Cluster (HPCC) 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 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.
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