Storage Magazine Names QLogic 8Gb Fibre Channel Network Products of the Year Finalist


ALISO VIEJO, Calif., Feb. 1, 2008 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- QLogic Corp. (Nasdaq:QLGC), a leader in networking for storage and high performance computing (HPC), today announced the QLogic(r) 8Gb Fibre Channel Network has been selected as a Finalist for the 2007 "Storage Products of the Year" awards. Finalists were selected by an independent team of judges and editors from SearchStorage.com and Storage Magazine who reviewed and evaluated a record number of over 200 submissions for their innovative storage technology.

The QLogic(r) 8Gb Fibre Channel Network is designed from the ground up to support server virtualization and is the only offering to include the host bus adapter (HBAs), switches and network management software needed to build a complete 8Gb storage network. The powerful new network is impacting the industry by leading a trend toward high performance networking to address the aggregation of I/O caused by server virtualization and virtual machine sprawl.

"QLogic customers recognized long ago one result of server virtualization would be a consolidation of I/O and I/O bottlenecks. That's why we expect high performance 8Gb SANs to be widely deployed in large virtualized environments," said Jeff Benck, president and chief operating officer, QLogic Corp. "It's an honor to be recognized by such a prominent voice in the storage community for our innovative solutions to this complex problem."

SearchStorage.com and Storage Magazine Product of the Year Award

The most prestigious awards in the storage industry, the annual "Products of the Year" from SearchStorage.com and Storage magazine honor new or improved storage products with the most significant impact during the year.

The QLogic 8Gb Network

The QLogic 8Gb Fibre Channel Storage Network is the only end-to-end 8G Fibre Channel SAN available today, consisting of PCI Express HBAs, blade server HBAs and switches, edge switches, director switches and network management software.

The QLogic 8Gb Fibre Channel Storage Network is on the leading edge of a wave of new Fibre Channel, Ethernet, FCoE and InfiniBand storage networking technologies capable of delivering quantum increases in SAN performance. The new higher performance SAN technologies are arriving just in time to prevent bottlenecks resulting from massive I/O aggregation driven by the deployment of dense compute nodes consisting of blade servers, multi-core processors and server virtualization.

The QLogic 8Gb Fibre Channel Storage Network is also representative of products designed for "green" computing environments where recyclable materials, space savings and energy efficiency are important. For example, SANblade(r) 2500 HBAs feature Adaptive Power Management -- the unique ability to sense the type of PCI Express present and power only the number of lanes required to achieve maximum performance and maximum energy efficiency.

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About QLogic

QLogic is a leading supplier of high performance storage networking solutions, which include the controller chips, host adapters 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 and iSCSI routers. The company is also a leading supplier of InfiniBand switches and InfiniBand host channel adapters for the emerging high performance computing 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, Network Appliance and Sun Microsystems. QLogic is a member of the S&P 500 Index.

Note: All QLogic-issued press releases appear on the company's website (www.qlogic.com). Any announcement that does not appear on the QLogic website has not been issued by QLogic.

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