ALISO VIEJO, Calif., April 24, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- QLogic Corp. (Nasdaq:QLGC), the leader in Fibre Channel host bus adapters (HBAs), stackable switches and blade server switches, today announced that its enterprise class SANbox(r) 9000 Series Fibre Channel core switches are now available on Sun's leading line of Storage products. The SANbox 9000 Series is a new class of core switch that takes less rack space, power and cooling than any director switch available today, all at a fraction of the cost.
"The SANbox 9000 Series sets an entirely new standard for ease-of-use and price-per-port in the enterprise," said Jesse Parker, vice president and general manager, QLogic Network Solutions Group. "With this latest offering, QLogic is building upon a tradition of delivering innovative storage networking solutions to the enterprise."
"The enterprise looks to Sun for innovative, reliable storage solutions," said Nigel Dessau, senior vice president, Storage marketing and business operations, Sun Microsystems, Inc. "Cost-sensitive companies will appreciate the performance, low power, and modularity that this new intelligent core switch provides."
SANbox 9000 Series Switches - Designed to the Core(tm) for Open Systems
Finally, there's a new class of core switch that represents a sane alternative to quarter million dollar director switches. The SANbox 9000 Series is Designed to the Core for cost-sensitive, business-critical, open system environments that require ultra high density, blazing performance and intelligent switching for their data center core. The SANbox 9000 architecture represents a number of industry firsts: a 4U modular chassis for a smaller footprint and cost-effective scalability, customer replaceable units (CRUs) to eliminate costly service calls, a 10Gb core-to-edge "backbone" enabling seamless inter-switch SAN performance scaling and a comprehensive set of core switch software management tools included as standard.
The QLogic SANbox 9000 Series core switch can be seen in the Sun Microsystems booth as part of the 2007 SANNAS Summit, a series of one-day conferences and exhibitions designed to educate technology professionals on the dynamic options and solutions that are now available. For more information on dates and cities, customers can visit http://www.mysannas.com.
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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