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QLogic Introduces VI Over Fibre Channel To Improve Performance For Networked Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Users.

Publication: Business Wire
Publication Date: 04-MAR-03 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

ALISO VIEJO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 4, 2003

HP, NEC and Fujitsu-Siemens TPC-C Benchmarks Feature

Fibre Channel User Networks

QLogic Corp. (Nasdaq:QLGC), the company that powers storage area networks (SANs), today announced that its Fibre Channel chips and SANblade(TM) host bus adapters support the standards-based Virtual Interface (VI) protocol.

Servers with Fibre Down(TM) on motherboards or with Fibre Channel HBAs now have the ability to improve response time for users of applications built on Microsoft SQL Server 2000 databases. The new products also position Fibre Channel as a higher performance alternative to IP for other low-latency networking applications such as clustering. Supported by Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Service Pack 3, the performance benefits of the SANblade QLA2350 HBA in SQL Server applications are documented in TPC-C benchmark tests performed by HP, NEC and Fujitsu-Siemens.

"Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Service Pack 3 offers customers several enhancements including support for the QLogic Virtual Interface protocol," said James Hamilton, general manager for SQL Server at Microsoft Corp. "The VI technology in the SQL Server networking layer reduces CPU consumption per transaction on the server and client systems, and improves performance."

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