ALISO VIEJO, Calif, Jan. 10, 2006 (PRIMEZONE) -- QLogic Corp. (Nasdaq:QLGC), the leader in Fibre Channel host bus adapters (HBAs), today announced that its reliable 4Gb SANblade(r) Pro Fibre Channel PCI Express (PCIe) HBAs for HP ProLiant servers are now available from HP channel partners and directly from HP. Featuring a suite of innovative technology advancements that result in "A Better 4Gb," the HP-branded versions of the HBAs are used for connecting HP ProLiant servers to high performance HP StorageWorks XP, MSA and EVA arrays in Windows and Linux environments.
"4Gb SANblade adapters from QLogic allow customers to harness the full power of HP ProLiant Servers and StorageWorks arrays," said Roger Klein, vice president of marketing, QLogic Corp. "The combination of ProLiant Servers with PCI Express and 4Gb Fibre Channel gives HP customers unprecedented storage networking bandwidth for demanding applications like backup and high definition television production."
"HP and QLogic have a history of innovation in designing storage networks," said Kyle Fitze, director of SAN marketing for StorageWorks, HP. "With a suite of advancements built on open standards, HP and QLogic are providing customers with improved SAN reliability, performance and scalability with a better 4Gb HBA."
"A Better 4Gb" HBA from QLogic
The New QLogic 4Gb HBAs available from HP offer a suite of technology advancements that help storage administrators in large enterprises ensure complete business continuity, maintain application performance and cost-effectively scale their networks.
For Better 4Gb Reliability:
-- Overlapping Protection Domains - This QLogic exclusive ensures
that data is not left unprotected, even for the smallest fraction
of time, by generating a new check of parity or ECC before
stripping out the old check. This offers a superior level of
protection, well beyond traditional implementations.
-- HBA Failover with Linux - To protect data even if there is a
component failure, QLogic uniquely offers Linux drivers that
provide customers with automatic failover and fail back between
redundant HBAs.
For Better 4Gb Performance:
-- Intelligent Interleaved DMA - Unlike competitive round-robin
schemes for transmitting data in a mixed 1Gb / 2Gb / 4Gb
environment, QLogic HBAs detect the link rate that each target can
support and transmit simultaneously, and at maximum performance,
to each storage device.
-- Out Of Order Frame Reassembly - Only HBAs from QLogic reassemble
frames within an exchange in the correct order, even though they
may have been received out of order. This improves performance by
eliminating the need to retransmit the entire I/O block.
For Better 4Gb Scalability:
-- Virtual SAN (VSAN) - This QLogic exclusive allows a single HBA to
read VSAN tags in packets sent from a Cisco MDS switch. As a
result, QLogic HBAs can support multiple VSANs, each with a
completely isolated fabric topology and set of fabric services
including name server, zone server, domain controller, alias
server and login server.
QLogic SANblade Pro Host Bus Adapters - The Market Share Leader
Storage administrators in large enterprises are trusted with nothing less than ensuring complete business continuity. That's why the most popular SANblade HBA models have field-proven reliability of more than 1.7 million hours mean-time-between-failure. QLogic believes superior reliability is also why according to Dell'Oro, Gartner and IDC, QLogic ranked number one in market share for Fibre Channel HBA ports shipped and Fibre Channel HBA revenue in 2004.
About QLogic
QLogic is the leading supplier of Fibre Channel host bus adapters (HBAs), blade server embedded Fibre Channel switches and Fibre Channel stackable switches for storage area networks (SANs). The company is also a leading supplier of iSCSI HBAs. QLogic products are delivered to small, medium and large enterprises around the world, powering solutions from leading companies like Cisco, Dell, EMC, HP, IBM, NEC, Network Appliance and Sun Microsystems. QLogic is a member of the S&P 500 Index. For more information visit www.qlogic.com.
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