PANDUIT Sponsors QLogic NETtrack Developer Center

TINLEY PARK, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--PANDUIT, a world-class developer and provider of leading edge physical infrastructure solutions, announces its sponsorship of the QLogic^® NETtrack™ Developer Center. Industry partners, developers, and customers can now gain hands-on experience with PANDUIT solutions in a high performance computing (HPC) cluster environment.

The NETtrack Developer Center provides QLogic customers and alliance partners with the "test tracks" and engineering staff to test drive their demanding applications on high core count clusters. By teaming with QLogic to integrate best-in-class fiber and copper cabling systems into the development program, PANDUIT is helping customers leverage the latest technologies to improve the interoperability and performance of their applications within multi-core HPC ecosystems.

Flexible, end-to-end solutions from PANDUIT deliver enhanced availability, agility, and security to help customers manage risk throughout the data center. “PANDUIT’s Unified Physical Infrastructure vision is driving the next generation of infrastructure design and management,” said Ron Partridge, Vice President Global Sales and Marketing, PANDUIT Corp. “Our participation in the QLogic NETtrack interoperability initiative enables the developer community to specify the most reliable, robust infrastructure available for their HPC applications.”

“The QLogic NETtrack Developer Center is the first InfiniBand^® development center to combine HPC technologies from many of the industry’s leading InfiniBand^® technology partners,” said Joe Kimpler, director of business alliances, QLogic Corp. “PANDUIT’s sponsorship of the NETtrack Developer Center supports our charter to provide a rich, multi-vendor environment where customers and partners can come together to test and certify their solutions for interoperability within a real-world HPC ecosystem.”

As a global leader, PANDUIT is continually focused on developing physical infrastructure solutions for data center computing, storage, and networking to support evolving business needs. Visit www.panduit.com to learn more about PANDUIT copper and fiber systems for Ethernet, InfiniBand, and Fibre Channel applications.

Customers and partners can learn more about the QLogic NETtrack Developer Center at http://www.qlogic.com/DeveloperCenter/netTrackDevelopersCenter.aspx.

About PANDUIT:

PANDUIT is a world-class developer and provider of leading-edge solutions that help customers optimize the physical infrastructure through simplification, agility and operational efficiency. PANDUIT’s Unified Physical Infrastructure (UPI) based solutions give enterprises the capabilities to connect, manage and automate communications, computing, power, control and security systems for a smarter, unified business foundation. Strong relationships with technology leaders complemented with its global staff and unmatched service and support, make PANDUIT a valuable and trusted partner. (www.panduit.com/net36)