Heres another sign that DELL is not resting their future on the PC market alone. I belive if you pay attention to analysts you will be late to the party. They don't get paid to help you , they get paid to promote propaganda. I would much rather base my investment decisions on what the company is doing and what I think they will accomplish in the future. Doing your own DD is the key to making money: JMHO MarkC.
QLogic Teams With Dell to Develop Storage Consolidation Product for the NT Market
Business Wire - February 23, 1999 13:57
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COSTA MESA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 23, 1999--QLogic Corp. (Nasdaq:QLGC), an industry leading designer and supplier of Storage Area Network (SAN) data delivery products, today announced support for Dell Computer Corporation's new storage consolidation and backup solution for the Microsoft NT environment. QLogic's QLA2100 Fibre Channel host adapter is the critical interface technology enabling connectivity between Dell's PowerEdge(R) servers and PowerVault(TM) storage systems on the SAN.
The interface between the computing platform and the Storage Area Network is a critical component in overall SAN performance and reliability. Designed well, this interface reduces performance-robbing interrupts to the computing resource and eliminates throughput bottlenecks. The interface architecture designed by QLogic for Fibre Channel-based SAN interfaces has addressed both the performance and overhead opportunities with a single award-winning design.
The QLogic QLA2100 host adapter features a dedicated on-board RISC processor, which significantly reduces CPU overhead while increasing the performance of user applications. This is particularly important to applications such as on-line database, data warehousing and ISP WEB hosting. In addition, QLogic's direct access frame buffer design results in an unobstructed data path allowing the highest throughput available in the marketplace today. Large on-line database backup applications and video streaming applications receive the most benefit from this design feature.
"QLogic recognized the growth potential of the Microsoft NT platform in the enterprise space early in the development of Fibre Channel. We targeted a price/performance solution that would allow a partner such as Dell Computer who has the vision, technical prowess and unique delivery channel to rapidly expand the adoption of Fibre Channel and SAN technology," said Larry Fortmuller, vice president and general manager of QLogic's Computer Systems Group. "We are very pleased to partner with Dell whose focus and determination in delivering best-of-class solutions to its customers is shared and supported by QLogic. The Dell PowerVault SAN is a solution that will help drive adoption of Fibre Channel and other SAN solutions benefiting the entire industry."
"QLogic has played an integral role in developing PowerVault SAN, enabling us to offer our customers high-performance, low-overhead SAN connectivity, resulting in superior SAN application performance and reliability," said Kevin Reinis, director of PowerVault storage for Dell's Enterprise Systems Group. "We are pleased to have QLogic as a partner as we move into the next phase of our standards-based storage strategy."
QLogic offers a comprehensive family of products that enable the reliable, efficient and high performance delivery of data to and from SAN end-nodes. QLogic is unmatched in the array of silicon, board-level products and software the company provides to enable the delivery of data for all SAN attached server, workstation, JBOD/RAID subsystem, tape library, tape drive and disk drive components. By focusing the company's expertise on data delivery to all SAN nodes, QLogic is uniquely positioned to deliver high levels of interoperability along with high-performance and reliability.
About QLogic
QLogic Corporation is a leading designer and supplier of semiconductor and board-level I/O and enclosure management products. The company's products provide high-performance interface connections for computer systems and their attached data storage peripherals, such as hard disk drives, tape drives and RAID subsystems. In addition, QLogic provides enclosure management products that monitor and communicate management information related to components that are critical to computer system and storage subsystem reliability and availability. QLogic's highly integrated, fully featured solutions are targeted at the computer system, storage device and storage subsystem marketplaces.
The company is utilizing its expertise to develop products for emerging standards such as Fibre Channel and Ultra3, as well as, SAF-TE, SES, IPMI enclosure management solutions.
For more information about QLogic and its product lines, contact QLogic Corp., 3545 Harbor Blvd., Costa Mesa, Calif. 92626; telephone: 800/662-4471 (sales); 714/438-2200 (corporate); fax: 714/668-5008; home page qlc.com.
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