ALISO VIEJO, Calif., March 27, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- QLogic Corp. (Nasdaq:QLGC), a leader in Fibre Channel host bus adapters (HBAs), stackable switches and blade server switches today announced that its SANblade(r) 2400 Series 4Gb Fibre Channel HBAs deliver excellent performance in VMware(r) environments. Running real-world applications like Oracle and MS-Exchange on VMware ESX Server, QLogic SANblade 4Gb Fibre Channel HBAs delivered up to 38 percent more I/Os per second (IOPs) and throughput than the closest competitor as documented in recent comparative testing. While the competitor's HBA performance reached a plateau in tests with just two virtual machines, QLogic SANblade 4Gb Fibre Channel HBAs continued to scale with four virtual machines and beyond.
"SAN-attached storage works hand-in-hand with VMware Infrastructure to improve utilization, simplify administration and reduce cost," said Brian Garrett, an industry analyst with the Enterprise Strategy Group. "SANblade 2400 Series HBAs from QLogic, which have been optimized for real-world, performance-sensitive workloads, can be used to maximize virtualization while minimizing cost."
Virtual infrastructure products, combined with faster, higher performance multi-core CPUs require SAN administrators to plan for future scalability of server I/O connectivity. To meet the ever-growing demands on the SAN, it is imperative that enterprises deploy a scalable Fibre Channel HBA architecture that can address a full spectrum of concerns including cost, performance, backward compatibility and most importantly, scalability in virtualized environments. QLogic SANblade 2400 Series 4Gb Fibre Channel HBAs outperform the competition in performance and scalability, which helps reduce both operational and capital expenditure costs by 28 percent in typical data center implementations.
"A growing number of Global 2000 businesses are addressing complex business challenges such as resource utilization and availability through virtualization," said Amit Vashi, senior director of marketing, QLogic Computer Systems Group. "QLogic 4Gb Fibre Channel HBAs provide high-performance I/O processing headroom and scalability across multiple virtual machines enabling higher levels of server consolidation, which is critical to reducing data-center operational costs."
QLogic Delivers "A Better 4Gb" for Virtualization
SANblade 4Gb HBAs and SANbox(r) 4Gb switches from QLogic offer a suite of technology advancements that help storage administrators ensure complete business continuity, maintain application performance and cost-effectively scale their networks in virtualized environments. For complete details of QLogic SANblade 2400 Series Fibre Channel HBA advantages in VMware environments, read the company's latest white paper at http://www.qlogic.com/knowledgecenter/briefs_papers.asp
QLogic End-to-End Virtualization Solutions
QLogic is uniquely positioned to address the virtualized data center by offering comprehensive virtualization products from SANblade HBAs to SANbox(r) fabric switches, all the way up to storage through SANbox storage services platforms. The company's focus, innovation, and close partnerships with eco-system vendors in virtualization will fulfill the promise of virtualization while ensuring high levels of security, manageability, and ease-of-use of virtualized environments. For more details on the benefits of QLogic comprehensive virtualization products, read the company's latest white paper at http://www.qlogic.com/knowledgecenter/briefs_papers.asp
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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