Fortinet announced that the Fortinet FortiGate-5140B handled 526 Gbps of blended application traffic and security attacks during recent massive-scale testing. These definitive real-world tests were created using the BreakingPoint FireStorm CTM, the industry’s only product capable of creating stateful application traffic at the massive-scale required to stress today’s high-performance firewalls.

Zhone Technologies, Inc. announced that it will introduce its new zNID 24xx Gigabit Ethernet (GE) Optical Network Terminals (ONTs) to the European market. The new Active Ethernet indoor ONTs, part of the zNID 24xx series indoor ONTs, provide a cost-efficient, high performance solution for delivering high bandwidth services.

F5 Networks, Inc. announced that it has won the Datacenter Leaders Award for Innovation in IT Optimisation. The award recognised F5 for its work with hosting and cloud computing leader Rackspace to create its innovative RackConnect Hybrid Cloud hosting service.

QLogic Corp. announced that the company led the Fibre Channel adapter market for the eighth consecutive year with consistent market share gains, according to new data from the Dell'Oro Group Q4 2011 SAN Report. QLogic once again gained market share in calendar 2011, with nearly 55 percent of total revenue share and a lead of more than 15 percentage points over its competitor.

Quantum Corp. announced that its vmPRO 4000 virtual server data protection appliance and DXi6700 family of disk backup appliances have been selected as finalists in the Backup Hardware category of Storage magazine/SearchStorage.com 2011 Products of the Year award.