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posted on 20 June 2008 07:37

BOSTON, USA (Red Hat Summit), FRIMLEY, UK, June 19, 2008 – QLogic Corp. (NASDAQ:QLGC), a leader in networking for storage and high performance computing (HPC), today announced certification of its 2500 Series 8Gb Fibre Channel host bus adapters with the newly announced Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2, which provides improved virtualisation capabilities based on Xen Hypervisor.

The latest offering from Red Hat includes scalability enhancements with support for 64 CPUs and 512GB of memory, enabling customers to implement larger scale consolidation on one physical server. All QLogic® 8Gb Fibre Channel adapters, which now deliver even more robust security, performance, management, and power savings capabilities for newer processors, are fully compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2.

“As a result of our continued collaboration with Red Hat, Enterprise Linux customers can now implement QLogic 8Gb adapters with complete confidence and take full advantage of the enhanced virtualisation, security and management features of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2,” said Amit Vashi, vice president of marketing, QLogic Host Solutions Group. “QLogic 8Gb Fibre Channel adapters with superior I/O performance are able to scale across a larger number of virtual machines, empowering IT managers in Global 2000 corporations to realise lower datacentre costs through increased server consolidation.”

For additional details about Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2, visit http://www.press.redhat.com/2008/05/21/red-hat-enterprise-linux-52/.

QLogic 2500 Series Adapters -- Transforming Server Connectivity into Competitive Advantage

The QLogic 2500 Series is a family of 8Gb Fibre Channel-to-PCIe Gen2 adapters designed for next generation virtualised datacentres with powerful multi-processor, multi-core servers. QLogic 2500 Series adapters are optimized for virtualisation, power, RAS (reliability, availability, serviceability), security and management to transform server connectivity into competitive advantage.

QLogic 8Gb adapters provide complete investment protection by maintaining backward compatibility with previous Fibre Channel networks and PCIe host bus speeds, and are set apart from all other 8Gb Fibre Channel adapters thanks to two breakthrough innovations under the QLogic Star Power™ Green Initiative -- Dynamic Power Management and Cool HBA™ technologies. Dynamic power management is the unique ability of the QLogic 8Gb adapters to sense the type of PCI Express bus that is present and consume only the amount of power necessary to run at full speed.

QLogic Cool HBA technology is the ability of QLogic products to operate without any air flow, unlike competitive products which require large heat sinks and fans to be cool.

About QLogic

QLogic is a leading supplier of high performance storage networking 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, Network Appliance and Sun Microsystems. QLogic is a member of the S&P 500 Index.

^{[Formatted by Paul Warren.]}