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ALISO VIEJO, Calif., April 18, 2002 -Supporting its
vision of a storage area network (SAN) in every business,
QLogic today announced an important milestone for the company
and Fibre Channel industry. Device drivers for the QLogic
SANblade family of Fibre Channel host bus adapters are embedded
in the four major operating systems, signaling an end to the
era when IT professionals were required to download and install
third party drivers. Operating systems that offer easy installation
of QLogic SANblade HBAs include Microsoft* Windows NT* and
Windows 2000, Novell* NetWare, Sun Solaris, Red Hat* Linux*
and SuSE Linux. Drivers for SANblade adapters are also included
in the 32-bit and 64-bit beta versions of Microsoft .NET and
Linux 64 kernel.
"The benefits of SAN based storage consolidation deeply
resonate with a broad spectrum of IT managers, but deployments
have been largely at the high end," said Robert Gray,
IDC storage research analyst. "This is another step in
reducing the cost and complexity barriers that have been a
drag on SAN deployments in today's do more with less business
environment."
Native Operating System Support Simplifies Networked Storage
Device drivers for printers have been included with major
operating systems for many years. The result is IT professionals
expect that installing a printer on a Windows PC or server
should be as easy using the "Add/Remove Hardware Wizard."
Until now, installing a Fibre Channel HBA many times involved
a complex process of downloading device drivers from vendor
websites, installing the drivers and testing the drivers for
operating system compatibility. Today, IT professionals can
expect to install a QLogic SANblade HBA by simply using the
same "Add/Remove Hardware Wizard."
SANblade Fibre Channel HBAs - Tested, Proven and Supported
SANblade is the HBA brand from the vendor of choice for most
major OEMs. Network Computing Editor's Choice, The SANblade
(tm) 2300 Series provides fast, reliable and efficient data
flow without bottlenecks. SANblade 2300 Series Features and
Benefits:
Reliability for mission critical applications with single
chip architecture
- On-board RISC processor for lowest CPU utilization
- Broadest interoperability certifications with tape, disk
and storage management software products
- Data transfer rates of up to 400MB/s per channel in full
duplex mode for greater bandwidth
- Transaction rates up to 80,000 I/Os per second
- Easy management with SANsurfer Tool Kit software
- Support for storage, server and cluster applications
- High PCI port density with dual and quad port HBAs
About QLogic (www.qlogic.com
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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.
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.
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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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