QLogic, the leader in blade server switches and HBAs, today announced it has joined Blade.org, an industry community created by IBM to focus on accelerating the expansion of solutions for IBM BladeCenter, a blade server design co-developed by IBM and Intel. Blade.org aims to spur development and innovation around blade technology and to enable BladeCenter ecosystem partners to test and interoperate their products on BladeCenter. The organisation plans to drive the development of this rapidly-growing community and innovations in Voice over IP, industry specific solutions, security and many other technologies.

"The valued addition of QLogic to Blade.org underscores our mutual goal to gather the brightest minds in an open development environment to create interoperable technologies that meet the needs of customers in all industries," said Doug Balog, chairman, Blade.org. "BladeCenter continues to set the industry agenda and today, that agenda is now a collaborative one shared with the ever expanding members of Blade.org."

“As a charter member of IBM’s original BladeCenter Alliance Program, QLogic has been at the forefront of creating innovative I/O solutions for BladeCenter servers,” said Frank Berry, vice president of marketing, QLogic. “In the last few years, blade server applications have become much more storage and I/O intensive and QLogic SAN solutions for BladeCenter servers have become increasingly pervasive in these environments.”

Reliable SAN Infrastructure for Bladed Servers Developer of the world's first embedded SAN infrastructure for bladed servers, QLogic is the leading supplier of Fibre Channel embedded switches and HBAs for bladed servers. QLogic HBAs, switches and management controllers provide fast, reliable and scalable storage expansion in an ultra-compact form-factor.

QLogic blade server HBAs are based on the same architecture and technology as QLogic's most popular HBAs which have a field-proven mean-time-before-failure rating of 1.7 million hours - 100 percent greater than the primary competitor. Reliable QLogic HBAs are backed by a warranty of up to five years -- the best in the industry. According to Dell'Oro, Gartner and IDC, QLogic ranked number one in market share for Fibre Channel HBA ports shipped and Fibre Channel HBA revenue in 2004.

QLogic 4Gb Fibre Channel expansion cards, Fibre Channel switch modules and iSCSI expansion cards for BladeCenter support the new IBM BladeCenter H platform.

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About QLogic
QLogic is the leading supplier of Fibre Channel host bus adapters (HBAs), blade server embedded Fibre Channel switches, Fibre Channel stackable switches and peripheral controllers. The Company is also a leading supplier of iSCSI HBAs. QLogic products are delivered to small, medium and large enterprises around the world, powering solutions from leading companies like Cisco, Dell, EMC, Fujitsu, Hitachi, HP, IBM, NEC, Network Appliance, Quantum, StorageTek and Sun Microsystems. QLogic is a member of the S&P 500 Index and NASDAQ 100 Index. For more information, visit http://www.qlogic.com.

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