ALISO VIEJO, Calif., Aug. 10, 2006 (PRIMEZONE) -- QLogic(R) Corp. (Nasdaq:QLGC), the leader in Fibre Channel host bus adapters (HBAs), ranked number one and gained ground in every category of 2Gb and 4Gb Fibre Channel HBA market share, according to the Dell'Oro SAN Report Q1/06. For the first time QLogic exceeded 50 percent market share by shipping 50.8 percent of all Fibre Channel HBA ports in Q1 2006. QLogic almost passed the 50 percent mark for overall Fibre Channel HBA revenue with 49.9 percent market share. In the important new market for 4Gb HBAs, which will dominate shipments in the years ahead, Dell'Oro estimates that QLogic achieved quarter over quarter growth of 20.1 percent, resulting in a leading 4Gb HBA port market share of 48 percent.
"Underlying the Dell'Oro data for the 4Gb and 2Gb market segments is customer demand in key arenas where QLogic pioneered and leads in new technology," said Roger Klein, vice president and general manager, QLogic Corp. "According to our estimates, QLogic has earned over 80 percent of the Linux, VMware server virtualization and blade server Fibre Channel HBA markets."
"A Better 4Gb" HBA from QLogic
SANblade 4Gb HBAs form 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.
For Better 4Gb Reliability:
-- Less Heat Production- SANblade Pro 2400 Series FC HBAs
consume less power and produce less heat than competitive
offerings so no additional cooling is required and
reliability is greatly improved.
-- 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 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.
-- Dual Read DMA - QLogic HBAs simultaneously process multiple
DMA requests, which helps accelerate the I/O performance in
real-life applications like Oracle and Exchange. (For more
information on performance reports visit
http://www.qlogic.com/products/hba_better4Gb.asp )
-- 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.
For Better Ease of Use:
-- More HBA Information - QLogic 4Gb SANblade Pro HBAs feature
three LED's that display each HBA's current speed. A unique
bracket design provides information on type of bus and the
worldwide port name (WWPN) to end users without removing the
HBA from the server. QLogic beaconing makes the process of
locating a specific HBA in the datacenter much easier.
About QLogic
QLogic is a leading supplier of high performance storage networking solutions including Fibre Channel host bus adapters (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 server networking products including InfiniBand host channel adapters that accelerate cluster performance. 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, go to www.qlogic.com.
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