In contrast,
QLogic Corp. (Nasdaq: QLGC)
has its feet in both camps. Mark Edwards, senior vice president at Qlogic, told Byte and Switch that his company is officially protocol agnostic. "We're using a common architecture to support multiple protocols," Edwards said, "and that makes it easy for us to bring new technologies to market quickly."
"At the end of the day," he continued, "cost is important, as is functionality. iSCSI has attractive elements in that regard." However, Edwards doesn't see iSCSI at just the low-end of the market, as some people in the industry do. He believes that large customers that want to leverage existing IP infrastructures and knowledge will also adopt iSCSI to a degree.
Edwards also told Byte and Switch that the adoption of Fibre Channel had actually gone more slowly than he thought it would. "We're three or four years behind where I thought we'd be at this point. Interoperability is a key issue, and not all Fibre Channel vendors have been as standards-focused as they might have been. I hope that Brocade Communications Systems Inc. [Nasdaq: BRCD], for example, understands why they need to do that, or they will give more impetus for the adoption of iSCSI."
- Ralph Barker, Editor in Chief, Byte and Switch http://www.byteandswitch.com
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