Sun now Offers QLogic SANbox 9200 FC Director Switches
With new Fault Tolerant and 256-port HyperStack license key-enabled features
This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on January 31, 2008 at 3:35 pm
QLogic Corp. announced that Sun Microsystems is now offering QLogic SANbox 9200 Fibre Channel director switches with new Fault Tolerant (FT) and 256-port HyperStack license key-enabled features. The SANbox 9200 director’s industry-unique architecture is Designed to the Core to require less rack space, power and administrative resources than any competitive product available today, all at a fraction of the cost.
“The SANbox 9000 Series with HyperStack and Fault Tolerance complements the Sun storage networking portfolio, well known to its customers for innovation and reliability,” said Jesse Parker, vice president and general manager, QLogic Network Solutions Group. “QLogic has created the first modular director switch, which scales in capacity without sacrificing performance, redefining the meaning of enterprise-class for director switches.”
The SANbox 9000 architecture has total power and component redundancy for ultra high availability, delivers 1.6Tbs of streaming bandwidth and allows chassis modules to scale capacity in lockstep with performance via the innovative QLogic HyperStack technology. For unprecedented scalability, the eight-slot SANbox 9000 chassis is uniquely modular in two dimensions. A SANbox 9200 director with the FT transparent CPU failover feature allows customers with mission-critical SANs to harden their switch core for 99.999 percent 24/7 solutions.
“QLogic and Sun have a rich history of developing innovative storage networking solutions. The scalability created by the SANbox 9200 HyperStack feature is an additional benefit to our enterprise customers,” said David Kenyon, vice-president, Storage Marketing, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
“Our SANbox 9200 with these new director-class features will take Clemson University to the next level as the ideal platform for deploying scalable storage solutions in our open data center,” said Mike Cannon, data storage architect and manager, Computing & Information Technology, Clemson University.
QLogic Corp.
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