QLogic to Support Next-Generation Red Hat Enterprise Linux

1 January 1970

QLogic(r) Corp. (Nasdaq:QLGC), the leader in Fibre Channel host bus adapters (HBAs), stackable switches and blade server switches, today announced its commitment to support the upcoming release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and the virtualization technologies included in it. QLogic virtualization support will provide Red Hat customers with a means for deploying and managing reliable storage area networks (SANs) in virtual server environments.

Integrated virtualization environments will enable users of Red Hat Enterprise Linux to dramatically increase server utilization, improve productivity and scalability, and reduce operating costs by consolidating their workloads onto fewer servers.

"QLogic and Red Hat are working together to provide reliable virtualization technologies that will result in greatly enhanced efficiencies and cost savings in the data center," said Brian Stein, engineering manager, emerging technologies, Red Hat. "Our goal is to provide end users with a fully integrated virtualization environment that will make deployment of virtualization easy and effective. The interoperability of QLogic drivers and the future release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 will enable us to achieve this goal."

QLogic Fibre Channel HBA drivers have already proven compatible with early versions of Fedora Core 5, and are fully compliant with XenSource Xen Hypervisor. QLogic drivers will be bundled with the new Red Hat Enterprise Linux distribution as standard inbox drivers, as they are in the current version.

"Virtualization promises to bring tremendous efficiencies to the server environment, and QLogic is committed to making virtualization a reality in the datacenter," said Amit Vashi, senior director of product marketing, QLogic Computer Systems Group. "We are working closely with Red Hat to develop products and solutions to drive ubiquitous virtualization."

About QLogic

QLogic is a leading supplier of high performance storage networking solutions including Fibre Channel host bus adapters (HBAs), blade server embedded Fibre Channel switches, Fibre Channel stackable switches, iSCSI HBAs, iSCSI routers and storage services platforms for enabling advanced storage management applications. The company is also a leading supplier of server networking products including InfiniBand host channel adapters that accelerate cluster performance. QLogic products are delivered to small-to-medium business and large enterprises around the world via its channel partner community. QLogic products are also powering solutions from leading companies like Cisco, Dell, EMC, Hitachi Data Systems, HP, IBM, NEC, Network Appliance and Sun Microsystems. QLogic is a member of the S&P 500 Index. For more information go to www.qlogic.com.

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