ALISO VIEJO, Calif., Aug. 28, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- QLogic Corp. (Nasdaq:QLGC) today announced that the latest research from Dell'Oro Group and Crehan Research confirms that QLogic gained global market share in the 10Gb Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) adapter market for the second quarter of calendar year 2012, increasing the company's presence in the 10Gb Ethernet (10GbE) market.
According to the Q2 2012 Ethernet adapter market share reports from both Dell'Oro and Crehan Research, QLogic led its nearest competitor by more than 18 percentage points in non-captive revenue share of FCoE adapters for the quarter ending June 30. The company attributes the growth to the increasing availability of 10GbE solutions and Intel Xeon Processor E5-2600-based (formerly known as Romley) servers, and strong preference for the QLogic® driver stack.
"The ecosystem of 10Gb Ethernet solutions and Intel Xeon Processor E5-2600-based servers is rapidly permeating the marketplace, and that trend is driving up the attach-rate for QLogic 10GbE FCoE adapters," said Amit Vashi, vice president of marketing, Host Solutions Group, QLogic. "These share gains reported by Dell'Oro and Crehan serve as evidence that customers prefer the QLogic brand because of our battle-tested, widely adopted software stack, which makes it easy for customers to migrate seamlessly to these next-generation platforms."
QLogic 8200 Series FCoE Adapters -- 10GbE Performance with Flexibility
By delivering 10GbE performance with low CPU utilization, the QLogic 8200 Series excels in virtualized environments, utilizing QLogic's unique flexible networking technologies including:
- Concurrent protocol processing services including FCoE, TCP/IP and iSCSI
- Multiple protocol offload services
- Switch Independent Partitioning
QLogic 8200 Series 10GbE adapters offer ultra-low CPU utilization, freeing up server cycles for business-critical applications and the increased mobility of VMs. QLogic 8200 Series adapters are fully interoperable with all existing LAN, NAS and SAN environments and support nearly every hypervisor, operating system and boot environment. The entire QLogic 8200 Series portfolio is fully integrated in Dell System Management tools such as Dell Lifecycle Controller. Users can also manage the portfolio using the QConvergeConsole™, which provides multi-platform, single-pane-of-glass management of FCoE, iSCSI and TCP/IP protocols for ease-of-administration and converged network deployment.
QLogic maximizes performance for Intel Xeon processor E5-2600-based servers
Intel's new Xeon processor E5-2600 product family provides up to an 80 percent performance boost over previous generation products. QLogic Fibre Channel, 10Gb Ethernet and 10Gb converged networking adapters are designed to balance the high compute density of servers based on the Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 product family by delivering enterprise I/O performance and reliability. By delivering full hardware offload, QLogic adapters provide significant performance benefits and remove the protocol processing burden from the CPU, conserving precious CPU cycles for applications and services and maximizing server virtualization ratios. Qualified and sold by all major OEMs and more than 150 certification partners, QLogic network adapters leverage the company's 15 years of enterprise experience and worldwide reach, ensuring the highest degree of product interoperability.
For additional information about the Dell'Oro Group report, visit: www.delloro.com. For additional information about the Crehan report, visit www.crehanresearch.com.
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