As the data center moves to an on-demand environment where computing and network resources are virtualized to enable on-the-fly resource deployment, there is a need for a common, powerful interconnect fabric to support this new generation of modular computing. The ability for IT to allocate and scale their network, servers, and storage resources to cost-effectively adapt to changing business needs is becoming a driving factor in new data center design architectures.

The goal of enterprise grid computing is to reduce cost and improve asset utilization by creating a virtual fabric of centrally managed on-demand compute and storage resources.

Utilizing QLogic products, compute and storage resources can be interconnected to create a virtual, high-performance, low-latency grid fabric resulting in a very efficient I/O channel for inter-processor communications, LAN/WAN communications, as well as storage access. Through this grid fabric, computing resources can be matched to application requirements on-demand as business priorities require.

QLogic’s grid fabric solutions allow customers to easily create a high performance backbone that integrates existing Fibre Channel and Ethernet networks while providing amazingly fast and reliable server-to-server communications.

QLogic’s 20Gbps high bandwidth multi-protocol fabric director and edge fabric switch products with unique virtual I/O controllers and comprehensive fabric management provide the key to tapping into the power of Enterprise Grid computing.