EMC Qualifies QLogic's Market-Leading, Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters in NT and Solaris Environments

Business Wire, Jan 20, 2000

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COSTA MESA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 20, 2000

QLA2200 Series Enhances SAN Management with Support for Full

Fabric and FibreAlliance MIB Technology

QLogic Corp. (NASDAQ:QLGC), the market share leader in Fibre Channel host bus adapters, announced today that EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC) has qualified the QLogic QLA2200 Fibre Channel host bus adapter for use with EMC's Symmetrix and Connectrix Enterprise Storage Network systems in Windows NT and Sun Solaris environments. The QLA2200 series, which offers full fabric support, joins the QLA2100 product family as the latest QLogic connectivity solution to meet EMC's rigorous interoperability testing, marking a long history of cooperation between the two companies to serve the growing Storage Area Network (SAN) market.

EMC is the world's technology and market leader in the rapidly growing market for intelligent enterprise storage systems, software and services. The company's Symmetrix and Connectrix products store, retrieve, manage, protect, and share information from all major computing environments.

&uot;QLogic's QLA2200 series Fibre Channel host bus adapters combined with EMC's Enterprise Storage systems, provide network administrators with scaleable hardware solutions and interoperable software management,&uot; said Mark Ward, EMC's vice president of global marketing. &uot;As a charter member of the FibreAlliance, an open industry consortium sponsored by EMC, QLogic is committed to delivering standards-based, enterprise storage solutions to the market.&uot;

EMC has invested more than $1 billion in interoperability testing resources, reputed to be far more than any other vendor, to ensure customers that every piece of the information infrastructure interoperates reliably within a real-life, open production environment.

QLogic's Fibre Channel controller includes several features that enable simplified management of SANs including full support for fabric connectivity and the FibreAlliance's management information base (MIB) technology.

&uot;The FibreAlliance's MIB, a comprehensive and robust specification for enterprise SAN management, paves the way for IT managers to freely choose and manage multiple interconnect devices,&uot; said Samir Desai, senior product manager for QLogic. &uot;We've worked closely with EMC and the FibreAlliance to deliver interoperable, end-to-end SAN manageability.&uot;

The QLA2200 series is based on the QLogic ISP2200 Fibre Channel controller chip. The ISP2200 features an embedded I/O processor, which results in impressive performance and superior efficiency in real world applications. This capability is especially critical in customer applications like OLTP and WEB server and data warehousing where EMC's Enterprise Storage products are targeted.

QLogic controllers maximize system efficiency and scalability by offloading I/O management functions from the CPU to the controller. By using the embedded processor to manage both the I/O activity and the host system interface, QLogic's controllers free the system to perform more user-application work.

Found in products from industry leading manufacturers of hard disk drives, tape drives, RAID controllers, tape libraries, UNIX and NT systems and workstations, QLogic offers the widest array of Fibre Channel interface products in the marketplace today.

About QLogic

A member of the Nasdaq 100 Index, QLogic Corporation is the market share leader in Fibre Channel host bus adapters. The company is also a leading designer and supplier of semiconductor and board-level I/O and enclosure management products targeted at the computer system, storage device and storage subsystem marketplaces. QLogic high- performance controllers are implemented in products from technology leaders such as AMI, Compaq, Dell, Fujitsu, Hitachi, IBM, Intel, Iwill, Quantum, Raidtec, Siemens, Sun and Unisys. The company's high-performance Fibre Channel and SCSI solutions play a key role in enabling enterprise-level storage area networks (SANs) and the company's enclosure management products monitor and communicate component information that is critical to computer system and storage subsystem reliability and availability. For more information about QLogic and its products, contact QLogic Corp., 26600 Laguna Hills Drive, Aliso Viejo, CA 92656; telephone: 800/662-4471 (sales); 949/389-6000 (corporate); fax: 949/389-6126; home page http://www.qlc.com.

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