Advanced Computing in the Age of AI | Friday, March 29, 2024

QLogic Joins the OpenPower Foundation 

QLogic Corp. today announced that it has joined the OpenPOWER Foundation, an open development community based on the POWER microprocessor architecture.

QLogic joins a growing roster of technology organizations working collaboratively to build advanced server, networking, storage and acceleration technology to enable those responsible for data centers to rethink their approach to technology. The OpenPOWER Foundation aims at delivering more choice, control and flexibility to developers of next-generation, hyperscale and cloud data centers. The group makes POWER hardware and software available to open development for the first time, as well as making POWER intellectual property licensable to others, greatly expanding the ecosystem of innovators on the platform.

"QLogic is looking forward to working with OpenPOWER member organizations to deliver our unique brand of innovation to the market. Today's demand for cloud-based services, along with the growing popularity of connected, mobile devices, require data center architectures to deliver incredible scalability, flexibility and performance," said Vikram Karvat, vice president of marketing, QLogic. "As a market leader in Fibre Channel and Ethernet adapters and the industry's frontrunner in innovative data center I/O solutions, QLogic will enhance functionality for highly virtualized, open standards-based, cloud and web-scale data centers based on the IBM POWER platform."

The OpenPOWER Foundation aims to drive expansion of enterprise-class, data center hardware and software, giving the industry greater ability to innovate across the POWER platform. The OpenPOWER ecosystem enables customers to build best-in-class systems finely tuned to the POWER architecture.

"The development model of the OpenPOWER Foundation is one based on collaboration and represents a new way of innovating around processor technology for big data and cloud," said Brad McCredie, president, OpenPOWER Foundation. "With QLogic joining this initiative we have significantly expanded our base of technology providers, as they bring a wealth of high performance networking and storage expertise, technology and innovation ability to OpenPOWER, allowing us to capitalize on emerging workloads."

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