QLogic Ships World's First FCoE Converged Network Adapters

ALISO VIEJO, Calif., Aug. 5, 2008 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- QLogic Corp.
(Nasdaq:QLGC), a leading supplier of high performance network infrastructure
solutions, today announced a comprehensive initiative to accelerate the adoption
of Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE). First, QLogic revealed it is now shipping
the QLogic(r) 8000 Series converged network adapters (CNAs), marking the general
availability of the world's first FCoE CNAs. Second, QLogic and Cisco are
helping IT organizations to realize the business benefits of FCoE networks with
evaluation packages consisting of Nexus 5000 Series switches and QLogic 8000
Series CNAs. Third, QLogic is launching the NETtrack(tm) FCoE interoperability
program designed to produce data networking and storage networking solutions
which are fully tested and supported by the vendor ecosystem. Building on the
success of the FCoE Test Drive in San Diego, the QLogic NETtrack program will
accelerate market acceptance of FCoE technology by building a portfolio of
certified solutions with existing Fibre Channel storage systems in advance of
the availability of native FCoE storage in 2009.

"Today's datacenter is a fast growing and increasingly critical corporate asset,
so any solutions that can help IT executives reduce complexity while boosting
responsiveness are critical," said Richard Villars, vice president of Storage
Systems research at IDC. "Technologies like FCoE will allow companies to
simplify their network infrastructure while boosting performance for both
servers and storage, an important requirement in increasingly virtualized and
scalable datacenters."

"Customers are enthusiastic about using FCoE to simplify their infrastructure
and reduce costs," said Jackie Ross, vice president, Marketing, Server Access
and Virtualization at Cisco. "Customer feedback from trials with the Cisco Nexus
5000 Series support the premise that FCoE is non-disruptive to existing storage
and network architectures, and that IT organizations clearly recognize the
benefits of a single, converged network."

"When considering the deployment of a converged network, we expect the priority
of IT organizations using EMC technology will be to ensure compatibility with
their existing Fibre Channel infrastructure," said Barbara Robidoux, vice
president, Storage Product Marketing at EMC. "The early availability of CNAs
from QLogic and collaboration with the EMC E-Lab to qualify interoperability
with EMC's networked storage systems will help make it easier for SAN
administrators to deploy FCoE when their needs dictate."

"IBM has been working closely with QLogic and others to define the standards
that will transform FCoE technology into business solutions for the new
enterprise datacenter," said Doug Balog, vice president of development for IBM
BladeCenter and System x. "Clients count on open standards to enable innovation
and ensure vendor interoperability. IBM BladeCenter Open Fabric Manager, the
open approach to blade IO virtualization, will fully support FCoE adapters and
allow clients to more easily transition to a unified fabric. We're pleased to
work with industry partners like QLogic to accelerate the market acceptance of
FCoE technology."

"FCoE is a logical progression of NetApp's unified storage approach of offering
Fibre Channel, iSCSI and NAS in its enterprise storage systems," said Joel
Reich, vice president and general manager of the SANiSAN Business Unit at
NetApp. "The QLogic FCoE initiative is well designed to help NetApp customers
migrate to native FCoE systems in the future."

"By delivering QLogic 8000 Series CNAs, based on our market-leading Fibre
Channel adapter technology, and continuing to work closely with key vendors like
Cisco and our NETtrack partners, we are laying the groundwork for converged
networks," said Amit Vashi, vice president of marketing, QLogic Host Solutions
Group. "Our Tier-1 OEMs and end-users are anticipating the ability to
consolidate their data and storage networks on one platform."

Fibre Channel over Ethernet -- Unifying Data and Storage Networks

FCoE, the standard for transporting Fibre Channel frames over Ethernet, is
designed to make converged networks possible for data centers. With converged
networks now on the way to becoming a reality, servers will no longer require
separate interfaces for data and storage networking. IT professionals can
increase functionality while reducing cost and complexity by using a single set
of cables and switches.

QLogic 8000 Series CNAs -- Make Your Network Fly

The QLogic 8000 Series is a family of converged network adapters designed for
next-generation, virtualized and unified data centers with powerful
multi-processor, multi-core servers. QLogic 8000 Series CNAs are optimized for
both data and storage (FCoE) networking virtualization with superior 10GbE
performance to handle large numbers of virtual machines. QLogic 8000 Series CNAs
also reduce data center total cost of ownership (TCO) by enabling consolidation
of data and storage networking onto a single adapter to reduce cabling, power
and cooling. By using the same industry-standard storage area network (SAN)
services and QLogic driver architecture already deployed with the largest
installed base of Fibre Channel HBAs in the world, the QLogic 8000 Series CNAs
completely protect customer investments in their existing Fibre Channel SANs.

Two models of QLogic 8000 Series CNAs are available:
* QLE8042-CK PCI-E to FCoE Dual Port Converged Network Adapter
(Ships with no transceivers installed; intended for use with low
cost SFP+ Direct Attached SFP+ copper cabling.)
* QLE8042-SR-CK PCI-E to FCoE Dual Port Converged Network Adapter
(Ships with two optical transceivers installed.)

QLogic 8000 Series CNAs are currently available from the following
QLogic authorized distributors around the world:

Asia Pacific
* ACA Pacific
* InfoX
* Synnex
* UltraPower
* Marubeni Information Systems
* Netmarks
* Servants International
* Samboo System
* Datastor
* Ingram Micro Asia, Zero One Technology,

EMEA
* Servodata
* Odirile Storage Distribution
* Avnet
* Four Leaf
* Bell Microproducts
* Distrilogie Group
* TIM AG
* StorIT Data Storage Solutions
* Hammer
* InfoX
* DSCon
* SM DATA
* Armada

North America
* Arrow
* Bell Microproducts
* Moca
* Promark
* Tech Data
* InfoX

South America
* Bell Micro
About QLogic

QLogic is a leading supplier of high performance network infrastructure
solutions, which include the controller chips, host adapters and fabric switches
that are the backbone of storage networks for most Global 2000 corporations. The
company delivers a broad and diverse portfolio of products that includes Fibre
Channel adapters, blade server embedded Fibre Channel switches, Fibre Channel
stackable switches, iSCSI adapters and iSCSI routers. The company is also a
leading supplier of InfiniBand switches and InfiniBand host channel adapters for
the emerging high performance computing market. QLogic products are delivered to
small-to-medium businesses and large enterprises around the world via its
channel partner community. QLogic products are also powering solutions from
leading companies such as Cisco, Dell, EMC, Hitachi Data Systems, HP, IBM,
NetApp and Sun Microsystems. QLogic is a member of the S&P 500 Index.

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