QLogic SANblade 4Gb HBAs Now Available From Sun
QLogic Corp. (Nasdaq:QLGC), the leader in Fibre Channel host bus adapters (HBAs), today announced that its enterprise class 4Gb SANblade® Pro Fibre Channel PCI Express (PCIe) and PCI-X 2.0 HBAs are now available from Sun Microsystems. The QLogic SANblade Pro HBAs connect both Sun UltraSPARC® and AMD Opteron™ processor-based Sun Fire™ servers to Sun StorEdge™ storage systems in Sun Solaris TM, Windows and Linux operating system environments. These HBAs feature a suite of innovative technology advancements that result in "A Better 4Gb," for Sun high performance computing customers.
"SANblade 4Gb host bus adapters from QLogic provide storage architects with a SAN infrastructure that matches the performance of their Sun Fire servers and their most demanding applications," said James Whitemore, vice president of product marketing for Sun's Data Management Group. "The Sun StorageTek Enterprise 4Gb FC HBAs now include the QLogic SANblade HBA technology. Sun is providing our customers with the latest 4Gb FC HBA technology to satisfy their IO connectivity requirements."
"A Better 4Gb" HBA
New 4Gb HBAs from QLogic 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.
"4Gb SANblade adapters from QLogic allow customers to harness the high performance computing power of Sun Fire Servers and StorEdge arrays," said Roger Klein, vice president of marketing, QLogic Corp. "The combination of 4Gb Fibre Channel and Sun Fire Servers with PCI Express and PCI-X 2.0 gives Sun customers unprecedented storage networking bandwidth and I/O performance for demanding applications like backup and high definition television production."
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.