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ALISO VIEJO, Calif., February 3, 2003- QLogic
Corp. (NASDAQ:QLGC), the company that powers
storage networks, today announced that QLogic
technology is being used in HP's highly integrated
Fibre architecture, helping enable robust heterogeneous
storage area network (SAN) support on HP ProLiant
BL p-Class blade servers. The advanced architecture
features "Fibre Down," the integration
of single-chip Fibre Channel host bus adapters
onto blade servers. Designed to enable the deployment
of blade server farms in data centers, this
innovative technology dramatically increases
the storage expansion capabilities of blade
servers by providing very reliable, high bandwidth,
long distance connectivity to Fibre Channel
SANs.
"Early blade servers supported edge-of-the-network
applications such as Web serving, media streaming,
load balancing, caching, and firewall protection,"
said Frank Berry, vice president of marketing,
QLogic Corp. "Now with powerful processors
and connectivity to Fibre Channel SANs, new
HP ProLiant BL p-Class blade servers are equipped
to support core business applications in the
data center."
"As the clear industry leader in the blade
server market and SANs, HP is proud of this
latest innovation with QLogic to bring SAN connectivity
to our HP ProLiant blade server family,"
said James Mouton, vice president, Platforms,
HP Industry Standard Servers. "HP's modular
blade architecture offers customers the ability
to integrate Fibre for an extremely cost-effective,
elegant solution to the ongoing storage challenge
they face. Now, HP ProLiant blade servers can
easily access hundreds of terabytes of critical
data on the SAN."
The Blade Server Revolution
The Internet has changed the server usage model
from single servers to higher density server
farms. However, system administrators find deployment
and operation difficult. Server resilience and
complex cabling are serious problems for server
farms. There are also problems associated with
securing and managing large numbers of servers.
Blade servers address server farm issues by
stacking independent servers within a single
cabinet. Each blade is an independent system
with its own memory, processor and network connection.
Multiple blade servers can be placed in a single
rack or enclosure. IDC predicts that the blade
server market will reach $3.7 billion by 2006.
[1]
Blade Server Infrastructure Powered
by QLogic
QLogic offers a family of single chip products
that form a complete I/O infrastructure for
dense blade servers. Single chip HBAs, switches
and management controllers from QLogic provide
fast, reliable and scalable storage expansion
in an ultra-compact form-factor.
About QLogic (www.qlogic.com <http://www.qlogic.com>)
QLogic Corporation (Nasdaq:QLGC <http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=qlgc&d=t>)
simplifies the process of networking storage
for OEMs, resellers and system integrators with
the only end-to-end infrastructure in the industry,
consisting of award-winning controller chips,
host bus adapters, network switches and management
software to move data from the storage device
through the fabric to the server. QLogic designs
and produces solutions based on all storage
network technologies including SCSI, iSCSI,
InfiniBand and Fibre Channel. A member of the
S&P 500 Index, QLogic was recently ranked
number 25 on Forbes' Best 200 Small Companies
and number 20 on Fortune's 100 Fastest Growing
Companies.
[1] IDC Quarterly Server Forecast, March, 2002.
Note: All QLogic-issued press
releases appear on the company's web site (www.qlogic.com).
Any announcement that does not appear on the
QLogic web site has not been issued by QLogic.
Disclaimer- Forward Looking
Statements
With the exception of historical
information, the statements set forth above
include forward-looking statements that involve
risks and uncertainties. The Company wishes
to advise readers that a number of important
factors could cause actual results to differ
materially from those in the forward-looking
statements. Those factors include new and changing
technologies and customer acceptance of those
technologies; a change in semiconductor foundry
capacity or conditions; fluctuations in the
growth of I/O markets; fluctuations or cancellations
in orders from OEM customers; the Company's
ability to compete effectively with other companies;
cancellation of OEM products associated with
design wins; and reductions in the need for
space and increased costs of operations due
to facility relocation. Carrying additional
expansion space may increase costs and adversely
impact future earnings.
These and other factors which
could cause actual results to differ materially
are also discussed in the company's filings
with the Securities and Exchange Commission,
including its recent filings on Form S-3, Form
10-K, and Form 10-Q.
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