SAN DIEGO, May 9, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- QLogic Fusion -- QLogic Corp. (Nasdaq:QLGC), the leader in Fibre Channel host bus adapters (HBAs), stackable switches and blade server switches, and Onaro, Inc., the leader in storage service management, today announced the two companies have signed an agreement in which QLogic will license a fully functional trial version of Onaro SANscreen SME Edition, an innovative application that allows SAN administrators to achieve real-time feedback about their SAN infrastructure. The partnership is designed to benefit the growing number of datacenter customers deploying the QLogic(r) 10Gb Fibre Channel backbone architecture, by reducing overall provisioning times, reducing troubleshooting overhead, and improving capacity planning activities. The partnership is also designed to drive new business for QLogic channel partners by significantly increasing their ability to provide value-added services to datacenter customers.
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"There is a great opportunity in small and medium enterprises for applications that can help the end customer optimize their storage infrastructure around the scalable QLogic architecture," said Jesse Parker, vice president and general manager, QLogic Network Solutions Group. "Onaro's SANscreen SME Edition provides a valuable set of tools to take full advantage of this opportunity. Introducing our customers to the benefits of the best-in-class Onaro-supported solution adds a new dimension to the overall solution effectiveness."
Onaro's SANscreen product family is the first and only award winning storage service management (SSM) solution that matches the services delivered by the storage infrastructure with application requirements. The result is dramatically improved discovery, capacity planning, service monitoring, change management, and audit/compliance. The SANscreen SME Edition being used by QLogic enables organizations to gain the operational efficiencies of the core SANscreen Foundation product but tuned to the demanding needs of the small and medium enterprise.
"Onaro SANscreen SME Edition software provides a great opportunity to expand our Professional Services offering, drive incremental product sales, and ultimately increase customer satisfaction," said Jason Forrest, National Practice Director, FusionStorm.
"As a leading provider of Fibre Channel SAN solutions, QLogic will be able to greatly improve the end user customer experience with Onaro SANscreen SME Edit," said Bryan Semple, vice president of marketing, Onaro, Inc. "IT departments can now turn to Onaro's innovative storage service management solutions and support to align application requirements with storage services."
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. For more information, please visit www.qlogic.com.
About Onaro
Onaro is the leader in storage service management (SSM) enabling enterprises to increase service quality, return on storage, and compliance by managing storage as a service. Unlike traditional SRM applications which are device centric, Onaro provides a clear service view into a SAN's access paths, redundancy, replication and performance. SANscreen is being used by the world's largest companies in banking, retail, entertainment, data communications and wireless telecom. A partial customer list includes AOL, CareGroup Healthcare System, JetBlue Airways, Priority Healthcare, State Street Global Advisors, and Wyeth Pharmaceuticals. For more information, please visit www.onaro.com
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