QLogic Validates InfiniBand

ALISO VIEJO, Calif. -- QLogic Corp. (NasdaqGS:QLGC - News), a leader in networking for storage and high performance computing (HPC), today announced it has completed validation testing of its suite of InfiniBand products with the IBM DB2 data server portfolio, including IBM DB2 9.1 ``Viper,'' giving businesses the ability to use ultra high bandwidth and extremely low latency QLogic(r) InfiniBand(r) networking to interconnect their clustered DB2 databases and improve overall performance. InfiniBand also provides companies with a ``single pipe'' architecture that can be used for server, storage and networking traffic which simplifies data center design and reduces operating costs.

``QLogic InfiniBand networking solutions provide high bandwidth and low latency performance features that are key to high performance, clustered database implementation,'' said Frank Berry, vice president of marketing, QLogic Corp. ``InfiniBand offers up to 20Gb of bandwidth that can be used to eliminate the need for separate physical server connections to storage and network resources, thereby reducing the costs and complexity of servicing an enterprise DB2 implementation.''

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