QLogic FabricCache SAN Adapter on Top of Customer Preferences for Taneja Group

Qlogic
Corp. announced the first caching SAN adapter, FabricCache,
addressing customer preferences for enterprise application
acceleration technologies, according to the multi-client study by
Taneja Group.

The study revealed that server-based
storage acceleration solutions are the ‘most valued’ by respondents
and that FC is the ‘most preferred’ storage protocol for application
acceleration. It also confirmed that virtualized data centers have
the greatest need for application performance acceleration and that
customers are investigating enterprise caching for potential
solutions.

The Taneja Group study uncovered market
conditions and buyer perceptions favorable to the SAN adapter. I/O
performance, storage performance limitations and capital expenditures
on storage make up the top six drivers for deploying storage
acceleration solutions. 42% of respondents reported I/O performance
causing unresponsive applications or application failures as the
number one driver.

Storage performance negatively
impacting IT efficiencies, including maximizing server virtualization
initiatives and meeting SLAs, were identified by half of all
respondents as top drivers for deploying storage acceleration.

"QLogic is already the market
leader in FC HBAs. With FabricCache the customer not only gets the
familiar HBA functionality but also acceleration for all applications
running on the server," said Arun Taneja, founder and CEO,
Taneja Group. "The caching SAN adapter is a simple deployment
method for cache-accelerating technologies that is non-disruptive to
existing infrastructures, delivers transparent, shared caching and
appears to the network as a FC SAN adapter. And unlike most
server-captive cache offerings today, FabricCache delivers the
benefits of caching to all servers and applications in the SAN."

According to the study, applications
with the greatest need for acceleration were server virtualization
(54% of respondents), cloud (34%), desktop virtualization (31%), data
warehouse (31%) and ERP/financial (30%).

Simple to deploy and manage,
it transforms single-server, captive cache into a pooled cache
resource, enabling server-side cache to be shared with virtualized
and clustered applications, accelerates the range of enterprise
applications that rely on SAN storage, lower latency and increase
throughput at a cost lower than comparable products or storage
build-outs.