'We fell short' says QLogic CEO in August's understatement-of-the-month contender

As expected from its earlier warning shot, QLogic's first quarter fiscal 2016 results were pretty bad. Revenues of $113.4 million were 5 per cent lower than a year ago, with net income of $2.6 million being 57 per cent down on last year's Q1. Within the revenue number, Advanced Connectivity Platforms (Fibre Channel and …

[ToddR]

FC-AL is a slow, but sure death and why would you go to Q-Logic for ethernet, instead of: Cisco, HP, Arista etc?

[Nate Amsden]

adapters vs switches

You may be confusing ethernet switches vs ethernet adapters. Most of my HP servers have Qlogic-powered Ethernet adapters from HP. A lot of HP's converged networking stuff comes from Qlogic as well (e.g. I think all of HP's flexfabric is qlogic tech).

One thing Qlogic isn't talking about anymore it seems like is their Mt Rainier cache stuff. It sounded neat in theory(especially the write caching). Spoke with a Qlogic rep at HP Discover in June and they said Mt Rainier went back to the labs for more development, and sounds like they are ditching the concept of write caching. Not sure when they made this move exactly perhaps last year, I hadn't kept too close track of it in the past couple of years. At one point Qlogic was hoping that was going to save them.

[ToddR]

Mind you nice to hear a CEO say, "we didn't execute very well," rather than the meaningless crap they spit out, which makes sense only to them, hopefully, politicians and Klingons!