Blade Watch

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May 29 — QLogic Corp., a provider of Fibre Channel host bus adapters (HBAs), stackable switches and blade server switches, has announced it is shipping a combined expansion card that supports both Ethernet and Fibre Channel for IBM BladeCenter servers from IBM Corp. This design increases I/O (input/output) flexibility for enterprise data centers, QLogic said last week.

Very cool, these kind of options bring new possibilities to the blade platform which has to be a good thing for the client and the industry alike, the more solutions and configurations that can be developed, the more we can use the technology to be a business enabler, whether its a blade with 1 IDE notebook disk or a blade using SAN boot and virtualization. Check it out, the article tells you all about the new host bus adapters and switches.

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