World's First and Only 10GbE iSCSI Router -- From QLogic -- Now Available Through...

World's First and Only 10GbE iSCSI Router -- From QLogic -- Now Available
Through EMC Select Program

ALISO VIEJO, Calif., May 11, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Continuing to expand its
footprint across storage, server and data networking markets, QLogic Corp.
(Nasdaq:QLGC), a leading supplier of high performance network infrastructure
solutions, today announced that its new 6250 intelligent Storage Router
(iSR6250) is EMC(r) E-Lab Qualified and available through the EMC Select program
as a 10GbE iSCSI connectivity solution for EMC CLARiiON(r) storage environments.
The QLogic iSR6250 establishes a new design and throughput paradigm for
intelligent routing platforms and features a radical architecture that can
aggregate up to 1,000 iSCSI hosts to a single EMC CLARiiON storage array.

"Customers are assessing their IT environments in an effort to do more with
less," said Deirdre Wassell, director, Storage Product Marketing, EMC
Corporation. "The EMC E-Lab qualified iSR6250 router, coupled with EMC CLARiiON,
provides customers with the flexibility of high performance 10Gb iSCSI
environments alongside existing high performance storage area networks for more
highly available virtual machines on the network allowing for massive
consolidation in virtualized environments, such as VMware and Microsoft
Hyper-V."

By incorporating four ports each of 10GbE iSCSI and 8Gb/sec Fibre Channel, the
QLogic iSR6250 offers the latest interfaces and powerful connectivity features
in EMC storage environments. The iSR6250 helps customers to cost-effectively
scale blade servers and rack servers in a variety of applications including
virtual machine deployments with EMC CLARiiON storage and provides high
performance, cost-effective 10GbE iSCSI host connectivity to EMC CLARiiON
storage arrays. In virtual machine environments, the iSR6250 enables iSCSI
initiators to runs on a guest OS instead of the hypervisor and ensures that each
VM manages its own storage LUNs via its own iSCSI initiator, providing dedicated
resources and security for individual applications.

"The bottom line business impact of this announcement is that customers can
utilize existing hardware and initiate an aggressive VMware strategy with
minimal change in Fibre Channel storage infrastructure," said Dave Vellante,
president and co-founder of Wikibon, the world's first Web 2.0 technology
research and advisory community. "To IT management and EMC CLARiiON customers,
this technology allows better leverage on existing Fibre Channel assets in
VMware environments. What's more, the fact that this is 10GbE means it will
support future investments."

The industry-leading architecture features two hot-replaceable router blades --
which can be zoned for full redundancy or utilized for separate applications-and
two hot-replaceable power modules for a fully redundant, high -- availability
design. The iSR6250 architecture features adaptive tuning technology that
enables the system to self-configure itself following the immediate removal of
any hot-replaceable components, ensuring no manual intervention is required from
end-users. If a router blade is removed and replaced, it is quickly rebooted
within sixty seconds and all zoning and configuration data is automatically
loaded.

By connecting the iSR6250 to a standard 10Gb Ethernet inter-switch link (ISL) or
switch port, the router can aggregate up to 1,000 iSCSI hosts to a Fibre Channel
storage array, allowing higher degrees of storage consolidation and enabling
more SAN storage to be available for internal and external clouds.

"The 10GbE iSCSI storage ports and initiator virtualization capabilities of the
iSR6250 make it possible for 1,000 virtual machines to directly manage their own
storage on a single EMC CLARiiON storage array," said Shishir Shah, vice
president and general manager, Storage Solutions Group, QLogic. "We look forward
to collaborating with EMC to provide CLARiiON customers with the latest and most
advanced iSCSI connectivity solution on the market today."

QLogic iSR6250: Elevating the Standard for Intelligent Routers

With servers with 10GbE LAN on motherboard (LOM) on the horizon, EMC CLARiiON
users can use the iSR6250 to create high-speed access from applications to data
storage. The iSR6250 provides three core capabilities that leverage the benefits
and investments that businesses have made in storage area networks (SANs).
First, the iSR6250 enables every server and virtual machine in the enterprise to
connect to the SAN with its own initiator, which greatly simplifies
configuration, management and security issues for IT personnel. Second, all
Fibre Channel SAN devices become multi-protocol devices, via iSCSI, providing
significantly increased asset utilization and increasing business efficiency.
Third, the iSR6250's high availability architecture enables enterprise-class
any-to-any protocol routing, with up to 2,400 MB/s of sustained throughput and
over 240,000 IOPS of peak performance available throughout the SAN. Based on the
same proven QLogic ASIC technology that powers more than 50 million storage
products sold by leading storage vendors worldwide, the iSR6250 offers
unparalleled levels of performance, scalability, flexibility and compatibility
with existing SANs with two 10GbE iSCSI Ports, two 8Gb/sec Fibre Channel Ports,
two 1GbE iSCSI Ports and two management ports, per blade.

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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limited to: potential fluctuations in operating results; revenues may be
affected by changes in IT spending levels; gross margins that may vary over
time; the stock price of the company may be volatile; the company's dependence
on the storage area network market; potential adverse effects of server
virtualization technology on the company's business; potential adverse effects
of increased market acceptance of blade servers; the ability to maintain and
gain market or industry acceptance of the company's products; the company's
dependence on a limited number of customers; seasonal fluctuations and uneven
sales patterns in orders from customers; the company's ability to compete
effectively with other companies; declining average unit sales prices of
comparable products; a reduction in sales efforts by current distributors; the
company's dependence on sole source and limited source suppliers; the company's
dependence on relationships with certain silicon chip suppliers; declines in the
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company's products; sales fluctuations arising from customer transitions to new
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