Fibre Channel powers Flash

QLogic is the provider of 16Gb Gen 5 Fibre Channel connectivity to SolidFire’s full line of SF Series all-flash scale-out storage nodes. The combination of QLogic® Gen 5 Fibre Channel technology and SolidFire’s All-Flash Arrays offer customers the first storage solution to enable true per-volume Quality of Service (QoS) in a Fibre Channel environment.

Thursday, 30th April 2015 Posted 9 years ago in by Phil Alsop

QLogic Gen 5 Fibre Channel products with dedicated per-port processing engines deliver industry-leading Fibre Channel performance with extremely low CPU utilization. This extreme performance eliminates potential I/O bottlenecks in today’s powerful multiprocessor, multicore storage platforms while QLogic port-isolation technology provides unmatched deterministic scalability and resiliency. These QLogic products deliver best-in-industry performance and port densities and the highest levels of data protection.

“SolidFire delivers a range of enterprise-class features in its industry-leading all-flash array,” said Vikram Karvat, vice president of products, marketing and planning, QLogic. “QLogic’s award-winning Gen 5 Fibre Channel technology provides SolidFire’s SF Series all-flash scale-out storage nodes with Fibre Channel connectivity, enterprise-class data protection and increased scalability.”