SAN JOSE, Calif. & ALISO VIEJO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 17,
2002--QLogic Corp. (Nasdaq:QLGC), the company with a vision of a
storage area network (SAN) in every business, and Cisco Systems, Inc.,
the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet, today announced
the two companies have entered into an alliance, which will include
agreements to integrate QLogic technology and components into Cisco
systems storage networking products, marketing of solutions, and joint
interoperability testing.
"Cisco's goal in storage networking is to combine the best aspects
of existing and emerging technologies to deliver the most practical
and effective solutions for customers," said Soni Jiandani, vice
president of Marketing in Cisco's Storage Technology Group. "By
working with companies such as QLogic, we are able to take advantage
of the core competencies of both companies, which enables us to
advance storage networking much faster for our customers."
"Ethernet switch fabrics are the dominant infrastructure for data
networks. Providing a vehicle for file transfer, they already play an
important storage role in connecting application servers to file
servers and network attached storage," said James Opfer, Gartner
Dataquest. "Just as Ethernet is dominant for data networks, Fibre
Channel stands alone as the incumbent technology for block-level
transfers in SANs. With Fibre Channel entrenched in the SAN space and
Ethernet ubiquitous and familiar, Fibre Channel and Ethernet fabric
solutions incorporating PCI-based host bus adapters have a credible
evolution path."
Convergence of Storage and Networking
Leading companies share a vision of globally networked storage by
extending their storage networks beyond isolated islands in the data
center to campus, metropolitan, and wide-area environments. Cisco
Systems' storage networking initiative helps organizations extend
their current storage networking infrastructures to realize benefits
such as lowered total cost of owning storage and improved business
continuance.
The Cisco Storage Networking strategy approaches storage
networking from a transport, media-independent point of view,
incorporating a variety of technologies including iSCSI (Internet
Small Computer Systems Interface), FCIP (Fibre Channel over IP), metro
DWDM (Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing), and Fibre Channel. |
