QLogic Sets Record With SANblade

ALISO VIEJO, Calif. -- QLogic Corp.(Nasdaq:QLGC), the leader in Fibre Channel host bus adapters (HBAs),stackable switches and blade server switches, today announced thatQLogic(r) SANblade(r) 2400 Series 4Gb Fibre Channel HBAs (HP modelnumber HP AB379B) together with HP Integrity Superdome Itanium2 1.6GHzservers achieved an unprecedented TPC-C benchmark score of 4,092,799transactions per minute (tpmC) in HP-UX 11i environments.

"These latest TPC-C results validate that customers benefit from thesuperior performance of QLogic SANblade 2400 Series HBAs," said AmitVashi, senior director of marketing, QLogic Host Solutions Group."Business-critical systems in enterprise datacenters utilize QLogicSANblade 2400 Series HBAs to ensure the highest performance in realworld applications like Oracle Database."

"Performance scalability is crucial for customers to maximize thedeployment of more powerful servers like the HP Integrity Superdome anddrive business growth," said Lorraine Bartlett, director of worldwideserver marketing, Business Critical Systems, HP. "With their superiorscalability, QLogic SANblade 2400 Series 4Gb Fibre Channel HBAs playeda significant part in this TPC-C breakthrough."

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