QLogic Gains HBA Market Share Over Nearest Competitor for Sixth Consecutive Quarter

As 8Gb Fibre Channel Market Emerges, QLogic Earns 60 Percent Share of Revenue and Ports, Twice the Nearest Competitor

• Press Release
• Source: QLogic Corp.
• On Monday November 17, 2008, 8:00 am EST

ALISO VIEJO, Calif., Nov. 17, 2008 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- QLogic Corp. (NasdaqGS:QLGC - News), a leading supplier of high performance network infrastructure solutions, today announced that QLogic once again ranked number one in every category of storage area network (SAN) host bus adapter (HBA) revenue and port market share, according to new data from the Dell'Oro Group Q3 2008 SAN Report. Dell'Oro reports that QLogic gained in overall revenue market share versus its primary competitor for the sixth consecutive quarter achieving 56.3 percent market share in overall ports and 54.8 percent of revenue share. The company increased its revenue lead over its nearest competitor to 18.3 percentage points and port share lead to 19.8 percentage points for the quarter. In addition, QLogic established a commanding lead in 8Gb Fibre Channel share for the same quarter with 61 percent share, more than double the nearest competitor, in both ports and revenue.

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``Global 2000 customers are typically the first to adopt new high performance technologies such as 8Gb Fibre Channel,'' said Amit Vashi, vice president of marketing, QLogic Host Solutions Group. ``The 8Gb HBA revenue and port market share numbers referenced in the Dell'Oro report indicate that QLogic 8Gb products demonstrate a strong value proposition in the data center.''

QLogic: The Fibre Channel HBA of Choice in the Enterprise

QLogic market share leadership is driven by IT professionals in Global 2000 corporate datacenters that are deploying Fibre Channel HBAs. HBAs from QLogic offer a suite of technology advancements that help storage administrators in large enterprises ensure complete business continuity, maintain application performance and cost-effectively scale their networks.

About QLogic

QLogic is a leading supplier of high performance network infrastructure solutions, which include the controller chips, host adapters and fabric switches that are the backbone of storage networks for most Global 2000 corporations. The company delivers a broad and diverse portfolio of products that includes Fibre Channel adapters, blade server embedded Fibre Channel switches, Fibre Channel stackable switches, iSCSI adapters and iSCSI routers. The company is also a leading supplier of InfiniBand switches and InfiniBand host channel adapters for the emerging high performance computing market. QLogic products are delivered to small-to-medium businesses and large enterprises around the world via its channel partner community. QLogic products are also powering solutions from leading companies such as Cisco, Dell, EMC, Hitachi Data Systems, HP, IBM, NetApp and Sun Microsystems. QLogic is a member of the S&P 500 Index.

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