QLogic Delivers 16Gb FC Connectivity for EMC VNX Hybrid Flash Arrays

QLogic Corp. announced that its 16Gb Gen 5 FC technology is available to order for EMC‘s VNX Series hybrid flash storage arrays.

The collaboration enables levels of application performance, storage efficiency, and data availability for EMC customers.

The VNX Series is designed to deliver no-compromises economics while balancing the performance, reliability and scalability requirements of virtualized data centers with a unified storage platform that supports both block and file storage. The combination of QLogic’s FC technology with the VNX Series allows organizations to address their evolving data center needs with proven, reliable storage solutions for today and tomorrow.

“Continued advancements in the EMC VNX Series and the addition of QLogic Gen 5 technology provide customers with robust scalability, performance headroom and investment protection in their storage infrastructure,” said Vikram Karvat, VP, products, marketing and planning, QLogic. “QLogic Gen 5 FC technology complements the EMC VNX Series hybrid flash array capabilities with leading edge performance for today’s advanced computing environments and allows customers to accelerate time-to-deployment.“

“EMC VNX Series storage arrays allow organizations to make the most of their infrastructure,” said Jon Siegal, VP, core technologies, EMC. “Combined with QLogic Gen 5 FC connectivity, VNX solutions provide the enterprise reliability and performance needed to satisfy the demanding requirements of both physical and virtual data center workloads.“

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