Qlogic
ViON presents the Qlogic 9000 Series Stackable Chassis Switch, a switch designed to the core for cost-sensitive, business-critical, open-system environments that require high port and performance, with support for 99.999% available solutions.
The robust performance, rapid deployment potential and “pay as you grow” budgeting advantages of Fibre Channel chassis switches have been available only in the form of expensive Director appliances targeted primarily at mainframe customers. IT managers with high-port-count open systems SANs who are unwilling to pay a premium for unused Director features (such as FICON support) have been forced to purchase complicated meshes of smaller switches, or very large fixed-port units – both of which offer high port counts, but much less flexibility, fault tolerance and overall system control. QLogic now provides a new class of core switch, representing a sane alternative to quarter-million dollar Directors and large, less resilient fixed-port switches.
Data center managers in mainframe environments are responsible for connecting large numbers of servers and storage systems. They pay a premium for servers, storage and Director switches that support proprietary mainframe protocols.
Data center managers in open systems environments also want high availability, high performance and scalability. However, they expect products built on open standards to be substantially more cost effective, less complex more flexible and easier to use.
Reliable, fast, modular and incredibly cost effective, the QLogic SANbox line of Core-to-Edge fabric switch modules and intelligent storage router modules are Designed to the Core for the open enterprise.
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