 Milestone Underscores the Pervasive
Deployment of SANs Embedded in Blade Servers
QLogic® Corp. (Nasdaq:QLGC), the leader in Fibre Channel
host bus adapters (HBAs), today announced the company shipped it's 500,000th
blade server HBA port. This milestone, along with the recently
announced achievement of shipping 20,000 blade server switches, underscores the
explosive growth of blade servers and the pervasive deployment of QLogic SANs
embedded in blade servers.
"Two years ago blade servers were deployed primarily in non-storage-intensive
applications such as web caching," said Roger Klein, vice president of marketing
for QLogic Computer Systems Group. "Since then, embedded SANs have played
a key role in the proliferation of blade servers in hundreds of
storage-intensive application environments."
Reliable SAN Infrastructure for Bladed Servers
Developer of the world's
first embedded SAN infrastructure for bladed servers, QLogic is the leading
supplier of Fibre Channel embedded switches and HBAs for bladed servers. QLogic
HBAs, switches and management controllers provide fast, reliable and scalable
storage expansion in an ultra-compact form-factor.
QLogic blade server HBAs are based on the same architecture and technology as
QLogic's most popular HBAs which have a field-proven mean-time-before-failure
rating of 1.7 million hours - 100 percent greater than the primary competitor.
Reliable QLogic HBAs are backed by a warranty of up to five years -- the best in
the industry. That's 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. 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 and
NASDAQ 100 Index. For more information visit www.qlogic.com |
