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QLogic Unveils StorFusion Technology Designed for Mission-critical, Private Cloud and Flash-accelerated Workloads in Collaboration with Brocade

ALISO VIEJO and SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 12, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, QLogic® announced StorFusion™, a new suite of features available with the new QLogic Enhanced Gen 5 (16Gb) Fibre Channel Adapters, also announced today. StorFusion, which leverages the Brocade® Fabric Vision™ technology, is designed to streamline provisioning, add resiliency and improve management visibility, addressing the needs of IT organizations that require increased reliability, integrated management and guaranteed network performance. Together, QLogic and Brocade are delivering a full suite of diagnostics, rapid provisioning, and guaranteed performance service-level agreements (SLAs) throughout the fabric. The combined solution provides:


“Mission-critical, private cloud and flash-accelerated workloads demand the utmost in performance, QoS and infrastructure reliability,” said Vikram Karvat, vice president of products, marketing and planning, QLogic. “The new QLogic StorFusion suite allows IT administrations to increase operational simplicity, understand their connectivity, even in complex virtual environments, and address network errors before they impact business operations.”

“Our collaboration with QLogic is changing the Fibre Channel industry landscape and solving customer challenges around the deployment of servers, storage, and networking,” said Jack Rondoni, vice president of storage networking, Brocade. “The integration of Brocade and QLogic technology extends Fabric Vision features end-to-end to accelerate server deployments, maximize application performance, and improve infrastructure reliability. Our mutual customers will benefit from increased infrastructure efficiency, reduced OpEx and simplified management.”

The new QLogic Enhanced Gen 5 Fibre Channel Adapters with StorFusion technology will begin shipping this month.

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1 ESG, QLogic 2600 Series 16Gb Gen 5 Fibre Channel Adapter with Brocade Fabric, August 2015

2 End-to-end SLA QoS requires all components in the SAN fabric to support CS_CTL based QoS 

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