Special Section: SNW, Fall 2004 - Highlights From The SNW Floor:

QLogic SWITCHES, HBAs, SOFTWARE INTEGRATED INTO HP SMB SAN KIT

QLogic Corp announced that QLogic SANbox Switches, SANblade HBAs, and SANsurfer Software will be integrated into the HP StorageWorks Modular Smart Array (MSA) 1000 Small Business SAN Kit.

The HP StorageWorks MSA1000 Small Business SAN Kit offers small businesses with no SAN expertise a cost-sensitive and simplified solution for first-time SAN deployments. The integrated QLogic products enhance the kit by providing customers with all-in-one pricing and packaging as well as breakthrough ease-of-use through a single Small Business SAN Wizard that allows non-experts to install the entire SAN in minutes.

During Storage Networking World this week in Orlando, attendees were invited to take the "HP SAN Challenge" in the Platinum Galleria and experience the simplicity of installing the HP Small Business SAN powered by QLogic.

"We dreamed of putting all our student content on-line and of implementing a multi-media studio," said Mike Magaldi, teacher and technology director at St. Mary and All Angels School. "Thanks to the HP StorageWorks MSA1000 Small Business SAN Kit, FalconNet is a reality."

The HP StorageWorks MSA1000 Small Business SAN Kit is an entry-level SAN solution specifically designed for SMB customers. It offers customers, value-added resellers and technology consultants a turn-key SAN solution that is easy to sell, easy to buy and easy to install. The kit includes an HP StorageWorks MSA1000 storage array, a Fibre Channel Switch, Fibre Channel HBAs and SANsurfer Express -– all in one box and orderable as a single SKU.

The innovative new SANsurfer Express software takes advantage of Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Virtual Disk Service (VDS). Virtual Disk Service provides system and storage administrators with an effective tool for provisioning and managing storage resources. The VDS infrastructure is designed to enable management of multi-vendor storage devices from a single user interface on Windows, which reduces management complexity.

"During the last year, the SAN vendor community has made evolutionary changes that have benefited the traditional large enterprise SAN end user," said Nancy Hurley, senior analyst with Enterprise Strategy Group. "The MSA1000 Small Business SAN represents revolutionary improvement in SAN ease-of-use that will help make SANs accessible to a new class of end-user –- small businesses."

SMB SAN Infrastructure from QLogic

With a vision of "a SAN in every business," Qlogic designs and manufactures storage area networking products for large enterprises and for small and medium business (SMB). The QLogic family of simple, low-cost SAN products for SMBs includes:

• SANblade Fibre Channel HBAs -- the cost-effective QLA200 Series of SANblade HBAs feature user-friendly documentation and wizard-based installation for easy installation by small business VARs and technology consultants.

• SANblade iSCSI HBAs -- the QLA4000 Series of SANblade HBAs features iSCSI and TCP/IP offload to protect small business investments in server CPU needed to support business critical applications.

• SANbox Fibre Channel Switches -- the cost-effective 3000 Series of SANbox switches features user-friendly documentation and wizard-based installation for easy installation by small business VARs and technology consultants.

• SANsurfer Software -- the SANsurfer Express version of QLogic software integrates HBA, switch and storage management into a single wizard-based application that allows an entire SAN to be installed in minutes.

About QLogic

Since 1993, over 50 million QLogic products have shipped inside servers, workstations, RAID subsystems, tape libraries, disk and tape drives. These products were delivered to small, medium and large enterprises around the world. Powering solutions from leading companies like Cisco, Dell, EMC, Fujitsu, Hitachi, HP, IBM, NEC, Network Appliance, Quantum, StorageTek and Sun Microsystems, the broad line of QLogic controller chips, host bus adapters, network switches and management software move data from storage devices through the network fabric to servers. A member of the S&P 500 and NASDAQ 100, QLogic was named to the following during fiscal year 2004: (i) Fortune's 100 Fastest Growing Companies list for the fourth consecutive year; (ii) Forbes' Best 200 Small Companies for the fifth consecutive year; and (iii) Business Week's list of 100 Hot Growth Companies. For more information visit www.qlogic.com.