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BiTMICRO Certifies Interoperability of QLogic Fibre Channel HBAs with E-Disk SAN JBOD Solid-State Storage Array

Offering Up to 112,000 IOPS and Sustained Transfer Rates of Up to 681 MB/sec, BiTMICRO-QLogic Synergy Creates the Latest Best-of-Breed Storage Networking Solution for Demanding Enterprise Applications

FREMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 7, 2004-- BiTMICRO(R) Networks, a pioneer in intelligent flash IDE/ATA, SCSI, USB, VME, PMC, CompactPCI, FireWire, Ethernet, and Fibre Channel solid state storage solutions, today announced the qualification of its E-Disk(R)SAN S2F-J with the QLA2340 and QLA2342 host bus adapters (HBAs) from QLogic Corp. (Nasdaq:QLGC).
QLogic's single-port QLA2340 and the dual-port QLA2342 are 64-bit, 133MHz PCI-X to Fibre Channel HBAs that offer 2 Gb performance for SAN and other Fibre Channel applications. On the other hand, the E-Disk(R)SAN S2F-J is the foundation of BiTMICRO's 2U rackmount Fibre Channel solid state disk (SSD) product line. With dual power supplies, redundant cooling fans, and embedded loop resiliency circuits on the disk I/O cards, the S2F-J has complete enclosure redundancy. It is perfect for environments that have expanding data storage requirements and can be upgraded to RAID or utilized as an expansion drive shelf behind another E-Disk(R)SAN Fibre Channel RAID system.

Benchmark tests were conducted at BiTMICRO's state-of-the-art facilities in Fremont, California. Using a SuperMicro SuperServer with a dual Xeon 2.6 GHz CPU and 1 GB DDR-266 memory as host, lab engineers attached a QLogic dual-port QLA2342 to an E-Disk(R)SAN S2F-J equipped with twelve 2 Gb E-Disk(R) Fibre Channel SSDs. IOmeter test results show that both products were able to deliver an outstanding 112,000 IOPS (max), sequential read rates of up to 681 MB/sec and sequential write rates of up to 403 MB/sec. Sustained random rates peaked at 560 MB/sec for reads and 257 MB/sec for writes.

"QLogic HBAs enable BiTMICRO(R) E-Disk(R)SAN users to fully utilize the power of their Fiber Channel solid-state storage solutions. Through this alliance we can build on each other strengths and provide enterprises with next-generation SAN solutions," says Frank Berry, Vice President of Marketing, QLogic Corp. "Acquiring BiTMICRO's seal of approval is in line with our goal of becoming the perfect choice for multi-vendor requirements," Berry adds.

"BiTMICRO(R) remains committed in identifying storage networking components that would complement the performance of our SAN arrays," states Rudy Bruce, President of BiTMICRO Networks. "We're glad to report that QLogic HBAs can keep up with the I/O performance of the E-Disk(R)SAN S2F-J, thereby assuring our customers that they can easily maximize the performance of their E-Disk(R) using COTS solutions."

For E-Disk(R) technology information, pricing and availability, call +1 510-74E-DISK / +1 510-743-3475, e-mail sales@bitmicro.com or visit http://www.bitmicro.com.

About BiTMICRO Networks

BiTMICRO(R) Networks (http://www.bitmicro.com), a privately held California corporation, is the leading provider of rugged and high performance non-volatile solid state disk, flash disk drive, and network storage and management solutions. E-Disk(R) storage solutions are offered with SCSI, IDE / ATA, Fibre Channel, USB, FireWire, Compact PCI, VME, PMC and Ethernet interfaces in 2.5-inch and 3.5-inch hard disk drive footprints, single-wide PMC, 3U and 6U board, and 19-inch rack mount configurations scalable up to several terabytes of pure solid state storage.

Ace-Disk(TM), E-Disk(R), BiTMICRO Networks(R) and BiTMICRO(R) are trademark or registered trademarks of BiTMICRO Networks, Inc. Other names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.

High-resolution photo images of BiTMICRO's product line are available at http://www.bitmicro.com/press_image_library.php

About QLogic Corp.

Since 1993, over 50 million QLogic products have shipped inside servers, workstations, RAID subsystems, tape libraries, disk and tape drives. These products were delivered to small, medium and large enterprises around the world. Powering solutions from leading companies like Cisco, Dell, EMC, Fujitsu, Hitachi, HP, IBM, Network Appliance, Quantum, StorageTek and Sun Microsystems, the broad line of QLogic controller chips, host bus adapters, network switches and management software move data from storage devices through the network fabric to servers. A member of the S&P 500 and NASDAQ 100, QLogic was recently named to Fortune's 100 Fastest Growing Companies list for the fourth consecutive year and to Forbes' Best 200 Small Companies for the fifth consecutive year. In addition, QLogic was named to Business Week's list of 100 Hot Growth Companies for 2003. For more information visit http://www.qlogic.com.

Contacts


BiTMICRO Networks, Inc.
Jun Alejo, 510-623-2341
jun.alejo@bitmicro.com
or
QLogic Corporation
Steve Sturgeon, 949-389-6268
steve.sturgeon@qlogic.com

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