QLogic Announces Strategic Partnership With ASI

QLogic and ASI to Develop 10/25/50/100Gb Ethernet Solutions for Cloud, Enterprise and Telco Environments


ALISO VIEJO, Calif., Aug. 19, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- QLogic (Nasdaq:QLGC), a leading supplier of high performance network infrastructure solutions, today announced a strategic distribution agreement with ASI, a leading distributor of solution building I/O and reference architecture blueprints to its family of over 12,000 VARs throughout North America. QLogic and ASI will work together to provide increased sales and profitability to resellers who deliver optimized server and storage networking infrastructure solutions for next generation workloads to cloud, enterprise and telco customers in the U.S.

"Over the years, I have seen ASI work with vendors to build solutions and optimize the delivery of specific workload and vertical solutions," said Shaun Walsh, vice president of Corporate Marketing, QLogic. "Partnering with ASI will help us reach specialized VARs that expand our market reach and support the development of better products. One great example of that is AMAX, which builds solutions for Hadoop and Spark clusters."

"With QLogic's proven track record of market leadership and innovation, adding its products to our networking and storage portfolio aligned with our business strategy," said Cathy Wang, vice president of Product Management, ASI. "QLogic's solutions address the needs of large enterprises and SMBs. By providing our resellers access to these solutions, it allows them to fully support our customers' specific areas of need effectively and efficiently."

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QLogic (Nasdaq:QLGC) is a global leader and technology innovator in high performance server and storage networking connectivity products. Leading OEMs and channel partners worldwide rely on QLogic for their server and storage networking solutions. For more information, visit www.qlogic.com.

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