QLogic Enables 16Gb FC Connectivity Across Fujitsu Enterprise Servers

QLogic Corporation announced that its FlexSuite16Gb Gen 5 FC adapters are shipping in Fujitsu PRIMERGY and PRIMEQUEST servers.

The addition of QLogic Gen 5 server adapters enables Fujitsu customers to deploy Gen 5 SANs in combination with Fujitsu ETERNUS Gen 5 FC disk storage systems, also powered by QLogic FlexSuite technology.

Continued collaboration between QLogic and Fujitsu demonstrates an ongoing commitment to satisfy enterprise server and storage requirements created by advanced computing platforms and performance-intensive enterprise applications.

“With our new portfolio of end-to-end 16Gb FC storage networking options from QLogic, Fujitsu now gives global businesses the performance and features necessary to drive today’s virtualized data centers and cloud computing environments,” said Uwe Romppel, senior director, head of product management server, Fujitsu. “Our PRIMEQUEST mission-critical servers provide high-end server functionality at supercomputing-level performance with the flexibility and affordability associated with open systems. Fujitsu’s PRIMERGY systems provide the most powerful and flexible data center solutions for companies of all sizes, across all industries and for any type of workload.“

Fujitsu Gen 5 FC adapters are designed to tackle high-bandwidth, I/O-intensive applications where reliability is critical. They also allow enterprises to improve price-performance, reduce power consumption-per-gigabit and support more VMs per server. Fujitsu Gen 5 FC solutions eliminate throughput bottlenecks from host to storage, giving users application performance and optimum I/O for computing environments. All QLogic Gen 5 FC solutions are backward-compatible with 8Gb and 4Gb FC networks, providing investment protection for existing FC SAN infrastructure.

“Advanced computing environments are placing new requirements on storage networks from multiple perspectives; performance, time to deployment, resiliency and manageability to name a few,” said Vikram Karvat, VP marketing, QLogic. “QLogic Gen5 FC solutions are ideally suited to meet these requirements, and we are extremely pleased to be working with Fujitsu across their enterprise server and storage portfolio to deliver end-to-end 16Gb FC solutions to their global customer base.“