QLogic Extends Industry Lead in FCoE Market with Multiple Tier One OEM Design Wins for World`s First Single Chip Converged Network Adapter with Full FCoE Offload

QLogic Leads the Charge Toward Intelligent Converged Networks as the Only
Company with Single Chip FCoE CNAs Available Today
ALISO VIEJO, Calif.--(Business Wire)--
Further extending its industry lead in the emerging Fibre Channel over Ethernet
(FCoE) market, QLogic Corp. (NASDAQ:QLGC), the leading supplier of high
performance network infrastructure solutions, today announced the immediate
availability of the all-new QLogic 8100 Series of PCI-Express converged network
adapters (CNAs), based on the company`s advanced new Network Plus Architecture.
QLogic`s first-to-market advantage with intelligent converged fabric technology
has enabled the company to secure a significant number of server and storage OEM
design wins.

"While some vendors talk visions and announce their hopes and dreams, QLogic is
busy taking the FCoE market by storm," said Tom Trainer, president of storage
research consultancy Analytico, Inc. "QLogic is at least 12 months ahead of the
competition in the FCoE space and Analytico predicts that the company will
continue to accelerate its established lead."

The data center is evolving and converging-where higher speed networking is
enabling communications between all IT resources, including compute, storage,
clients, voice, LAN and internal and external clouds. As the data center is
becoming a virtual set of networked resources and intelligent converged fabrics,
QLogic`s FCoE solutions are at the center of this convergence, allowing data
center managers to combine the lossless features of Fibre Channel with the
ubiquitous connectivity of Ethernet. According to Gartner Research vice
president, Roger Cox, FCoE will become one of the important technologies
associated with cost containment and modernization initiatives for IT
infrastructures over the coming years.

"With today`s announcement, QLogic achieved what no other vendor to date has
been able to do in the FCoE space," said Deni Connor, principal analyst, Storage
Strategies NOW, a leading storage research consultancy. " `Show me the silicon`
captures the essence of what QLogic delivered today, a new integrated single
chip ASIC optimized for virtualized, converged data center environments
utilizing bandwidth-intensive SSDs. QLogic is clearly at the forefront of making
FCoE a tangible reality."

"We`ve been successfully collaborating with tier one OEMs on integrating
QLogic`s latest FCoE solutions into their servers and storage systems for the
past six months and have now established a significant time-to-market
advantage," said Amit Vashi, vice president of marketing, QLogic Host Solutions
Group. "In this challenging macroeconomic environment, customers are looking for
savings across a multitude of dimensions-in power, space, cooling and
management-and are eager to repurpose and redeploy existing infrastructure
wherever possible. The Network Plus Architecture introduces a whole new era of
cost savings to the data center. Mark this day-this is new technology and
represents the starting point of 21st century data centers."

According to Dell`Oro Group, FCoE adapter shipments are expected to more than
double each year for the next five years. "We forecast that FCoE adapter
shipments will grow from less than two thousand ports in 2008 to approach two
million ports in 2013," said Seamus Crehan, vice president at Dell`Oro Group.

Introducing the Network Plus Architecture

Exhibiting the highest degrees of volumetric efficiency in the industry, the
world`s first fully integrated CNA-on-a-chip is based on the QLogic Network Plus
Architecture, incorporating memory, processors and SerDes-with no external
components required-and is specifically designed for space and power-constrained
environments such as blade servers and high-density storage systems. The Network
Plus Architecture represents the very latest in ASIC design technology and
manufacturing and shares many commonalities with the world`s largest installed
base of Fibre Channel adapters-over six million QLogic Fibre Channel HBA ports
globally-including common storage APIs and management tools.

The new QLogic ASIC based on the Network Plus Architecture handles storage and
data networking traffic at full 10GbE line speeds, consumes only one third the
power of existing CNA chip sets and generates far less heat-eliminating the need
for a heat sink. Leveraging the established architecture of the market-leading
QLogic 2500 Series Fibre Channel adapters, it`s also the first single-chip CNA
with an integrated, full FCoE offload engine, enabling faster application
performance while saving precious CPU resources, which translates to higher
degrees of server virtualization in the data center.

"QLogic`s Network Plus Architecture is a core enabling technology which brings
separate network infrastructures together into a single, converged, Enhanced
Ethernet network. To CIOs, this means lower cost connectivity, centralized
network management and more flexible provisioning of data center resources
through a single pipe, all at 10GbE speeds," said Dave Vellante, president and
co-founder of Wikibon, the world`s first Web 2.0 technology research and
advisory community.

"Not only will this enable IT organizations to deploy next-generation
technology, it should also give QLogic a significant go-to-market jump on its
competitors with regards to design wins and provide an opportunity to educate
and train IT end-users on the value of convergence," said Bob Laliberte,
analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group. "Converging the network will help companies
transition away from the legacy silo`d technology domains and move towards a
unified IT staff focused on delivering higher levels of service to the
business."

Introducing the QLogic 8100 Series Converged Network Adapters

Based on the advanced Network Plus Architecture, the QLogic 8100 Series is a
family of PCI-Express CNAs designed for next-generation, virtualized and unified
data centers with powerful multi-processor, multi-core servers. Available in
multiple form factors, including standard and mezzanine cards, the adapters
offer full certification for nearly every OS, including Windows Server, Linux,
AIX and HP-UX, and virtualization platforms, such as VMware ESX Server,
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V and Citrix XenServer, as well as any
hardware platform from PowerPC to Nehalem. The QLogic 8100 Series CNAs are
optimized for both data and storage networking virtualization with superior
10GbEE performance to handle massive quantities of virtual machines.

Commenting on today`s announcement, Tony Asaro, founder and senior consultant
for the INI Group, said, "The ability to use a single card that supports SAN,
LAN, backup networks and management networks is powerful and can save customers
a ton of money and headaches. I believe that this is an important milestone in
networking that is in my view long overdue."

Unparalleled Industry Support

Cisco

"Cisco and QLogic continue our commitment to unifying data and storage networks
through FCoE," said Soni Jiandani, vice president, Server Access and
Virtualization Business Unit, Cisco. "The new QLogic single-chip CNA is another
breakthrough for this technology that will further extend the benefits of
converged networks, an important value proposition of our Nexus 5000 Series
switches and our recently announced Unified Computing System."

Dell

"Along with QLogic, Dell is further enabling the Unified Fabric to address our
customers` most significant pain points. With the introduction of this new ASIC,
we will be able to jointly deliver enhanced performance and reduced power
consumption for our customers who need 10GbE performance and desire to converge
their Fibre Channel SANs into a common, unified, Ethernet fabric. These
capabilities make this an ideal solution for blade server and virtualization
environments," said Larry Hart, worldwide senior manager, Storage & Networking,
Dell.

EMC

"EMC believes that converged networks are an important part of helping to make
data centers more efficient," said Barbara Robidoux, vice president, Storage
Marketing, EMC. "EMC's leadership in testing, integrating and offering FCoE
technologies to customers is the result of collaboration with key partners like
QLogic. As this important market segment continues to emerge, we are continuing
to work with QLogic and support their FCoE converged network adapter
initiatives."

HP

"Customers are looking to lower costs and simplify data center infrastructures,"
said Bob Wilson, vice president, Storage Platforms Group, StorageWorks Division,
HP. "HP and QLogic are well-positioned to help customers who wish to leverage
FCoE to converge their networks and upgrade their SAN environments-meeting their
growing business needs."

IBM

"While Fibre Channel over Ethernet technology offers benefits of reduced cost
and simpler management, moving to FCoE will be a challenge for some," said Alex
Yost, vice president, IBM BladeCenter. "With IBM BladeCenter and the QLogic
CNAs, our clients will be able to converge networks in a way that protects their
current datacenter investment, and offers flexibility when making the
transition."

Microsoft

"As our customers look to further extend the benefits that Microsoft
virtualization technology delivers in creating a more dynamic data center,
technologies such as FCoE can help achieve that while further reducing operating
costs," said Dai Vu, director, Virtualization Solutions Marketing, Microsoft.
"Microsoft has announced plans to support FCoE with an upcoming logo program and
we look forward to QLogic`s participation to qualify their FCoE adapters for use
by our mutual customers."

NetApp

"As an industry leader in FCoE and unified storage, NetApp is committed to
supporting QLogic's new FCoE infrastructure products to provide customers with
enhanced flexibility, cost-savings, and performance," said Patrick Rogers, vice
president of Solutions Marketing, NetApp. "NetApp and QLogic have a strong and
long-standing relationship and as a result we enable customers to take advantage
of both Fibre Channel SAN and Ethernet through our joint FCoE solution
offerings."

Sun

"Many enterprise data centers continue to operate separate Ethernet data
networks and separate Fibre Channel storage networks," said Gautam Chanda, Group
Manager, Networking Group, Sun Microsystems, Inc. "Maintaining separate networks
can lead to increased power, cooling, management and hardware costs. QLogic`s
FCoE solutions will enable the consolidation of data and storage networking and
lead to reduced costs for our customers."

VMware

"Customers continue to consolidate their data centers with the help of VMware`s
industry-leading virtualization platform as they move toward creating private
cloud computing environments," said Shekar Ayyar, vice president of
infrastructure alliances, VMware. "With FCoE, intelligent converged fabrics
enabled by innovative solutions such as those from QLogic can unify data and
storage traffic onto a single network, providing a solid foundation for
customers to deliver IT as a service."

Additional comments from leading industry analysts on today`s announcement are
available here: www.qlogic.com/analystsFCoE

More information on the QLogic Network Plus Architecture and 8100 Series CNAs is
available here:
http://www.qlogic.com/Products/Datnetworking_products_landingpage.aspx

QLogic NETtrack Developer Center

QLogic has designed a converged network test track for partners and end-users to
test-drive and certify the interoperability of their hardware and software with
QLogic 8100 Series CNAs. To learn more about test-driving CNAs, contact
joe.kimpler@qlogic.com.

About QLogic

QLogic (NASDAQ:QLGC) is a global leader and technology innovator in high
performance networking, including adapters, switches and ASICs. Leading OEMs and
channel partners worldwide rely on QLogic products for their data, storage and
server networking solutions. QLogic is a NASDAQ Global Select company and is
included in the S&P 500. For more information, visit www.qlogic.com.

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