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QLogic's Scott Genereux Recognized as 2010 Channel Chief by Everything Channel's CRN |
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Written by Tyler O'Neal
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Tuesday, 09 March 2010 09:55 |
Genereux Recognized for Strengthening QLogic's Award Winning Signature Partner Program, Expanding Portfolio of Networking Solutions for Channel PartnersQLogic today announced that Scott Genereux, senior vice president of worldwide sales and marketing for QLogic, has been named a 2010 Channel Chief by Everything Channel's CRN. Channel Chiefs are leaders in creating effective channel programs for solution providers and consistently defend, promote and execute effective channel partner programs and strategies.
Genereux was chosen for his role in growing QLogic's Signature Partner base in 2009 and increasing the company's agility in the channel--all against a challenging macroeconomic backdrop. Under Genereux's leadership, QLogic built upon the company's award-winning Signature Partner program with numerous enhancements that simplified its previously multi-tiered model into a single, umbrella model with the aim of providing channel partners greater value with more flexible certification options.
The enhanced program incorporates the company's expanding portfolio of networking solutions, which includes support for rapidly emerging technologies such as Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), 10Gb Ethernet and InfiniBand. The program updates took into account how to ensure even greater partner profitability by giving credit for OEM products sold, enhancing rewards for partners selling across the entire spectrum of QLogic products.
"Our channel partners are a vital key to addressing the continuously evolving requirements of our expanding global customer base," said Scott Genereux, senior vice president of worldwide sales and marketing, QLogic. "We focus on providing our partners with the incentives, tools and solutions needed to succeed in established markets, such as Fibre Channel switching; rapidly emerging markets, such as FCoE adapters - and in high performance computing (HPC) environments with our end-to-end InfiniBand portfolio."
"Being named a Channel Chief is one of the most prestigious honors in the IT industry. This year's Channel Chiefs list offers tremendous insight into the who's who of the Channel," said Kelley Damore, vice president, editorial director, Everything Channel. "Top channel executives consistently ensure that the Channel's voice is heard when strategic decisions are being made and continually nurture mutually profitable relationships. We applaud the 2010 Channel Chiefs for their successful partner programs and strategies."
For the eighth consecutive year the Channel Chiefs were chosen based on Everything Channel's editorial criteria including policy and program innovations made during the past year, the amount of revenue their company generates through partners, their willingness to speak out publicly on behalf of the channel, and the number of years they have dedicated to channel activities.
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QLogic Appoints Minoru Yasuda as General Manager of QLogic Japan |
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Monday, 08 March 2010 08:08 |
Former AMD, Dell and Sun Executive Tapped to Expand Japan Operations for High Performance Networking Leader
QLogic today announced the appointment of Minoru Yasuda to general manager, QLogic Japan. Set to expand the company's operations and market share in Japan, Yasuda brings to QLogic a longstanding track record of developing highly successful sales and marketing strategies in Japan for technology leaders such as AMD, Dell and Sun.
Yasuda will be responsible for building a platform for growth in Japan, amplifying the company's sales focus with Tier One server and storage OEMs and pushing the company further into Fibre Channel switching and InfiniBand solutions for high performance computing applications. Yasuda will report to Martin Darling, QLogic vice president of Asia Pacific and Japan Sales.
"QLogic has impeccable high performance networking technology and one of the broadest portfolios in the industry," said Yasuda. "I look forward to building the QLogic brand in Japan, and hope to duplicate the success the company has enjoyed in the United States and other regions."
"With Japan ranked by IDC as the second largest storage market after the U.S., the time for QLogic to strengthen its presence there and capitalize on these opportunities is now," said Darling. "In addition to expanding our Fibre Channel and InfiniBand business, we expect customers in large cities such as Tokyo to address city power restrictions by deploying VMware, Nehalem-based servers and QLogic FCoE networking solutions with significantly lower power consumption characteristics."
Yasuda's career spans a multitude of technology sales and management roles over a period of 24 years. Most recently he served as general manager for Sun Microsystems x86 System Sales in Japan where he successfully managed a strategic team and worked with channel partners to greatly expand the company's share in x86 servers. Prior to Sun, Yasuda was at AMD Japan, where he served as regional sales director and headed distribution sales, which accounted for material contributions to revenue. As regional sales manager at Dell Japan, Yasuda succeeded in driving revenue growth by 20 percent on a year-over-year basis.
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QLogic FCoE Converged Network Adapters Certified for Cisco Unified Computing System |
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Tuesday, 02 March 2010 18:18 |
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QLogic 8100 Series Single Chip CNAs Certified to Work With Cisco UCS Virtualized and Cloud Computing Environments Demonstrating once again that it is the premier supplier of single-chip based Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) converged network adapters (CNAs), QLogic today announced that its industry-leading 8100 Series CNAs have been certified for interoperability for the Cisco Unified Computing System platform (UCS). QLogic dual-port 10GbE converged network adapters are now available to work with the Cisco UCS, a unified architecture that unites compute, network, storage access, and virtualization resources in a single energy-efficient system using industry-standard technologies. QLogic's award-winning 8100 Series CNAs combines data and storage networking onto a single, low-profile, energy-efficient design, are also fully certified for use with Cisco Nexus 5000 Series FCoE switches, which are commonly deployed with the Cisco Unified Computing System. The Nexus 5000 Series simplifies data center transformation by unleashing a high-performance, standards-based, Ethernet fabric that consolidates separate LAN, SAN, and server cluster network environments into a single unified fabric. "Products like the Cisco Unified Computing System, Cisco Nexus 5000 Series and QLogic FCoE CNAs are changing the principles of configuring server and storage infrastructure," said David Vellante, co-founder and chief research advocate, Wikibon. "The common practice of configuring server I/O by application type, where each rack of servers is customized with I/O and communications specific to a workload is no longer viable as server utilization hovers under 10 percent and server heat densities approach the danger zone. The combination of QLogic CNAs, the Cisco UCS platform, Intel-based Nehalem processors and virtualization software has the potential to increase server utilization three to five times over current levels--supporting massive consolidation and efficiency initiatives within IT organizations." "By using less equipment, less energy and less space, the Cisco Unified Computing System is changing the economics of the data center, reducing capital expenditures by up to 20 percent and operational expenditures by up to 30 percent," said Soni Jiandani, vice president of marketing, Server Access Virtualization Business Group for Cisco. "We are working with industry vendors like QLogic to certify that their solutions are optimized for the Cisco UCS platform to ease the migration to virtualized and cloud computing environments." "Cisco is driving innovation in the data center with the Cisco UCS platform, a scalable, 'wire-once' solution that can be managed as a single system whether it has one or more than 300 servers with thousands of virtual machines," said Amit Vashi, vice president of marketing, Host Solutions Group, QLogic Corp. "Our converged network adapters are built on the same battle-proven QLogic Fibre Channel stack that has over seven million ports deployed and are fully optimized for virtualized environments such as this industry standard platform." More information on the QLogic 8100 Series is available at: http://bit.ly/36V0DI Follow QLogic @ twitter.com/qlogic
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Force10 sets industry benchmark for 10 GbE port density |
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Written by Chris O'Neal
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Monday, 01 March 2010 10:29 |
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New 40-port line card supports 560 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports in a single chassis Force10 Networks today announced the availability of a new line-card for its ExaScale virtualized core switch/router platform, setting a new benchmark for 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10 GbE) port density, and giving the company overall industry leadership. Force10’s new 40-port line-card increases the density of the ExaScale E1200 virtualized core switch/router to 560 10 GbE ports in a single half-rack chassis – a new industry record. The model provides industry leadership for the ExaScale in both line-rate and oversubscribed 10 GbE ports, ensuring customers can support high density connectivity as well as true non-blocking operations where required. Force10’s 40-port 10 GbE line-card can aggregate more devices per card, ultimately leaving more chassis space available for future growth while also allowing IT architects to reduce the complexity of the network. A recently released market research report from Dell'Oro Group indicated that 10 GbE was the only segment within the Ethernet Switch market to show sequential port and revenue growth in 2009. Dell’Oro also noted that the majority of market revenue growth in 2010 also is forecast to come from 10 GbE products. Thought Leaders Acknowledge Force10’s 10 GbE Leadership
Industry analysts recognize that this increased density – coupled with the unmatched performance, resiliency and low power consumption of Force10’s ExaScale platform – demonstrates the company’s commitment to maintaining clear industry leadership among the requirements that matter most to next-generation data center managers. “In less than one year, Force10 has outpaced market leaders such as Cisco Systems in delivering a robust and industry-leading density core switch/router platform with a wide range of line-card interfaces and performance characteristics,” says Zeus Kerravala, senior vice president, Yankee Group. “Customers need a broad interface and line-card portfolio to balance cost-effectiveness with performance and scale in data center networks.” “Force10’s timely introduction of its 40-port 10 GbE line card illustrates its focused attention to the development of the data center market,” says Steve Steinke, senior analyst for enterprise networks, The 451 Group. “The core switch/router platform with the newly expanded line-card portfolio is the key to providing what customers need to maintain high performing, scalable data center networks.” New Line Cards Contribute to Purpose-Built Architecture
With the highest port density to date, Force10’s 40-port 10 GbE line card is the latest solution based on the ExaScale suite of advanced, packet processing and switching ASICs (application-specific integrated circuits) that leverage Force10’s high performance hardware and software design knowledge, patented backplane technology, and industry-leading performance, reliability and flexibility. “When evaluating network infrastructure solutions, we have always considered the density and performance numbers provided by most vendors to be ‘perfect world’ scenarios that are rarely realized after deployment,” said John Lowell Wofford, manager of HPCC at the Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Columbia University Medical Center. “However, as a Force10 customer, we’ve seen first-hand how their claims are consistently backed up by the performance of their solutions. We anticipate these new 40-port 10 GbE line cards will merit our serious consideration to cost-effectively build and maintain our data center.” “Performance requirements and densities for cluster computing are advancing at unprecedented rates to meet the need of government research and education communities,” said Parks Fields, manager, Scalable Systems Engineering, Los Alamos National Lab. “High performance computing environments call for density, performance and reliability in the smallest energy-efficient footprint possible. Force10 Networks continues to offer leadership in this area. The ability to support 560 ports of 10 GbE at high levels of performance and stability in a small eco-efficient footprint is a capability we require now and will need more for the next generation of “Cluster Computing” that we are considering,” he said. ExaScale Platform Excellence
The company’s enhanced port density will enable Force10’s partners to provide customers with significant operational value, enabling each organization to effectively balance its performance and cost targets. “Port density and throughput performance are critical success factors in the high performance storage market,” said Don Grabski, director of product management at Panasas Systems, Inc. “With our ActiveStor family of integrated storage solutions and systems approach to performance, Panasas optimizes performance for all application workloads while reducing storage management complexity and costs. Force10 has been an excellent technology partner that helps Panasas deliver highly scalable network attached storage solutions for the world’s most data-intensive applications, achieving speeds up to 55 GB/second in bandwidth performance.” Leveraging the Force10 Virtualization Framework
Force10’s Ethernet products incorporate the Force10 Virtualization Framework technology suite, which enables data centres and service providers to build, manage and automate network and application performance and processes. Pricing and Availability
Pricing for the 40-port 10 GbE line-card starts at $97,500. The product will begin shipping in the 2nd quarter of 2010.
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