QLogic Ships IBM Card

ALISO VIEJO, Calif. -- QLogic Corp.(Nasdaq:QLGC), a leader in Fibre Channel host bus adapters (HBAs),stackable switches and blade server switches today announced it isshipping the industry's first Ethernet and Fibre Channel comboexpansion card for IBM BladeCenter servers. The QLogic(r) Ethernet and4Gb Fibre Channel Expansion Card (CFFh) for IBM BladeCenter providestwo 1Gb Ethernet and two 4Gb Fibre Channel ports. Designed by QLogicspecifically for IBM BladeCenter, the innovative combo expansion cardprovides new levels of space, power and cost-saving I/O connectivityfor blade server customers in Global 2000 enterprises.

"IBM continues to innovate and evolve blade server computing with thetrailblazing IBM BladeCenter platform," said Roger Klein, vicepresident and general manager, QLogic Host Solutions Group. "With theQLogic Ethernet and 4Gb Fibre Channel Expansion Card (CFFh) for IBMBladeCenter, customers have increased flexibility of deploying Ethernetand/or Fibre Channel I/O technology without compromising on theease-of-use, reliability, availability and performance expected fromQLogic products."

The new QLogic Ethernet and 4Gb Fibre Channel Expansion Card is a keycomponent of IBM's Virtual Fabric Architecture, featuring innovativeinterconnect technologies and management tools to help customersincrease speed and efficiency of data transfer across blade servers andnetworks.

"IBM continues to expand the ecosystem of technologies and solutionsavailable for BladeCenter customers," said Doug Balog, vice presidentand business line executive for IBM BladeCenter. "Previously businesseshad to choose an I/O technology at the initial deployment stage but nowwith the new innovative third generation combo expansion card built byQLogic for BladeCenter, customers can build flexible I/O networkscomprised of Ethernet, Fibre Channel or both."

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