Dino Balafas

Dino Balafas

QLogic Corporation

Dino Belafas

qLogic's Director of Product Marketing
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Dino Belafas

"We're clearly headed toward a new level of storage networking performance as end-to-end 2 gigabit products are now hitting the marketplace," said Dino Balafas, director of Product Marketing in QLogic's Switch Products Group.

"We're clearly headed toward a new level of storage networking performance as end-to-end 2 gigabit products are now hitting the marketplace," said Dino Balafas, director of Product Marketing in QLogic's Switch Products Group."Solutions like Seagate's 2 Gb Fibre Channel Cheetah X15-36LP disc drives and QLogic's SANbox2 switches and SANblade 2300 Series host bus adapters address the never-ending need for faster access to growing volumes of data.Customers can now begin migrating their SANs to the 2 Gb infrastructure to harness this new level of performance, while taking comfort in knowing these products integrate seamlessly with their current SAN investments."

Seagate's Cheetah X15-36LP is the world's fastest disc drive, operating at 15K rpm and featuring a low average seek time of 3.6 ms. The Cheetah X15-36LP was created for transaction processing applications such as those running within high-performance, data-intensive enterprise servers and workstations that must access information as quickly as possible, while still maintaining unparalleled reliability and data integrity.

The QLogic SANbox2 16 port switch offers 2 Gigabit performance at 1 gigabit prices in a compact form factor, while the QLogic SANblade 2300 Series packs a powerful suite of features that benefits a wide range of applications from the workstation to the data center.

We're clearly headed toward a new level of storage networking performance as end-to-end 2 gigabit products are now hitting the marketplace , said Dino Balafas , director of Product Marketing in QLogic's Switch Products Group.Solutions like Seagate's 2 Gb Fibre Channel Cheetah X15-36LP disc drives and QLogic's SANbox2 switches and SANblade 2300 Series host bus adapters address the never-ending need for faster access to growing volumes of data.Customers can now begin migrating their SANs to the 2 Gb infrastructure to harness this new level of performance , while taking comfort in knowing these products integrate seamlessly with their current SAN investments..

Seagate's Cheetah X15-36LP is the world's fastest disc drive , operating at 15K rpm and featuring a low average seek time of 3.6 ms. The Cheetah X15-36LP was created for transaction processing applications such as those running within high-performance , data-intensive enterprise servers and workstations that must access information as quickly as possible , while still maintaining unparalleled reliability and data integrity.

The QLogic SANbox2 16 port switch offers 2 Gigabit performance at 1 gigabit prices in a compact form factor , while the QLogic SANblade 2300 Series packs a powerful suite of features that benefits a wide range of applications from the workstation to the data center.

"We're clearly headed toward a new level of storage networking performance as end-to-end 2 gigabit products are now hitting the marketplace," said Dino Balafas, director of Product Marketing in QLogic's Switch Products Group."Solutions like Seagate's 2 Gb Fibre Channel Cheetah X15-36LP disc drives and QLogic's SANbox2 switches and SANblade 2300 Series host bus adapters address the never-ending need for faster access to growing volumes of data.Customers can now begin migrating their SANs to the 2 Gb infrastructure to harness this new level of performance, while taking comfort in knowing these products integrate seamlessly with their current SAN investments."

Seagate's Cheetah X15-36LP is the world's fastest disc drive, operating at 15K rpm and featuring a low average seek time of 3.6 ms. The Cheetah X15-36LP was created for transaction processing applications such as those running within high-performance, data-intensive enterprise servers and workstations that must access information as quickly as possible, while still maintaining unparalleled reliability and data integrity.

The QLogic SANbox2 16 port switch offers 2 Gigabit performance at 1 gigabit prices in a compact form factor, while the QLogic SANblade 2300 Series packs a powerful suite of features that benefits a wide range of applications from the workstation to the data center.

Dino BalafasDirector of Product Marketing
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Dino Balafas, Director of Product Marketing, QLogic

Mr. Dino Balafas is the Director of Product Marketing for Qlogic, the world's leading provider of scalable switched fibre channel fabrics, HBA's, ASICs and fabric management components essential for storage area network (SAN) infrastructures.He is responsible for developing Qlogic's product roadmaps, strategic planning, and market launches for FC switch & HBA products.Dino Balafas has distinguished himself as the author of articles and white papers on storage area networking solutions, data warehousing, and date movement technologies, and presented at technical forums such as Fibre Channel Technical Conference 2000 & 2001, SAN 2000 & 2001, Uniform and CA World.A number of these papers have been published in InfoStor, Communication News and Computer Technology Review.Mr. Balafas graduated from Augsburg College with a BA in Mathematics/Computer Science, and an MA in Leadership.

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