“The cLOM8514 is the flagship of QLogic’s Ethernet portfolio and marks a pinnacle in technical achievement for networking solutions,” said Vikram Karvat, vice president of marketing, QLogic, “Whether you are a hyper scale, MSP, private cloud or enterprise data centre operator, this controller addresses your major advanced computing needs for the next several years and aligns well with next-generation, high-density switching solutions to scale network infrastructure in these environments.”
QLogic Ethernet Adapter Solutions: High Performance with Flexibility
The QLogic cLOM8514 controller is ideal for satisfying the networking and storage requirements of hyper scale and highly virtualised data centres and performance-intensive enterprise applications, such as online transaction processing. Featuring multi-protocol offload and concurrent LAN (TCP/IP) and SAN (FCoE, iSCSI) and low latency protocol processing over a shared Ethernet link, QLogic adapters offer maximum flexibility, with ultra-low CPU utilisation freeing up server cycles for business-critical applications and virtual machines. QLogic QConvergeConsole™ adds multi-platform, single-pane-of-glass management of FCoE, iSCSI and TCP/IP protocols for ease-of-administration and converged network deployment.