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QLogic, in the stagnant and low-growth adapter businesses, has announced weak quarterly results, and is pinning its hopes on ASICs and soon-to-be-revealed new server-based products unlike anything it has produced before. Q primarily sells adapters that connect servers to networks such as the Fibre Channel HBAs (Host Bus …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    The decline of Fibre-Channel?

    This article underpins the inevitable decline of expensive and complicated FC kit in the face of Ethernet-based solutions that are:

    Ubiquitous, nearly as fast and cheap!

    With a move to Object Storage and scale-out NAS, iSCSI will serve the block space, but also begin a slow, relative decline. Let's face it, blocks are going out of fashion. Bring on the clouds!

  2. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Fibre Channel sucks.

    Just replaced an FC SAN and fabric for a customer with 10GbE iSCSI. Blows FC out of the water in terms of performance and flexibility, not to mention that VMware seems to boot about 10x quicker with FC HBAs uninstalled...

  3. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    So are Q finally going to announce those HBAs with the built in flash/storage cache ?

    They could cleanup in the market before EMC/Dell/NetApp/FusionIO/LSI whomever take it.

  4. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Wow - management with clue!

    Cutting back on marketing and admin to focus on engineering? That has to be a world first!

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