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ALISO VIEJO, Calif., May 7, 2003, - QLogic Corp. (Nasdaq:QLGC), the
company that powers storage area networks (SANs), today announced that it increased
its share of revenues and units in the Fibre Channel component market and gained
ground toward the number one host bus adapter (HBA) supplier position according
to new research published by Gartner Dataquest entitled "Storage Network Infrastructure:
FC SAN Component Market Share, 20021." The report noted several key findings including:
- QLogic showed the largest revenue growth
year-over-year of any HBA vendor with an increase of 45 percent,
boosting QLogic's market share to 31.7 percent.
- QLogic's port shipments increased 51 percent from
2001, advancing the company's share of HBA ports by 10 points to 38
percent. QLogic also closed the gap on its primary competitor by
moving from a 9 percent difference in 2001 to within 5 percentage
points in 2002.
"SANs are well established as a superior way to manage storage in
Fortune 500 companies, and now they are making their way into small
and medium enterprises," said Frank Berry, vice president of
marketing, QLogic Corp. "QLogic has increased market share by
providing our OEM and channel customers with products that are easy
to deploy, manage and service."
Both QLogic SANbox2 Fibre Channel switches and SANblade* HBAs have
won "Editor's Choice" and "Well-Connected" awards from Network
Computing magazine. QLogic SANblade 2Gb HBAs offer an extensive
checklist of features and benefits that lead the industry including
award-winning performance and native support for Sun Solaris,
Microsoft® Windows NT® and Windows 2000, Novell® NetWare, Red Hat®
Linux® and SuSE Linux. QLogic SANbox2 2Gb Fibre Channel network
switches protect investments in current and future SAN
infrastructures, establishing new standards of performance,
reliability and simplicity. Available in 8-, 16- and 64-port
configurations, QLogic SANbox2 switches are among the fastest, most
scalable, and easiest-to-manage Fibre Channel switches on the market.
1-Storage Network Infrastructure: FC SAN Component Market
Share, 2002 (Executive Summary) by James Opfer, May 6, 2003, Note Number: HARD-WW-EX-0384;
Storage Network Infrastructure: FC SAN Component Market Shares, 2002 by James
Opfer, May 5, 2003, Note Number: HWST-WW-MS-0142.
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Over 40 million QLogic products have shipped inside servers, workstations, RAID
subsystems, tape libraries, disk and tape drives, delivered to small, medium and
large enterprises around the world. PoweringPoweringPowering solutions from leading
companies like Cisco, Dell, EMC, Fujitsu, Hitachi, HP, IBM, Network Appliance,
Quantum, Sony, StorageTek and Sun, the broad line of QLogic controller chips,
host bus adapters, network switches and management software move data from storage
devices through the network fabric to servers. A member of the S&P 500 and NASDAQ
100, QLogic was recently named to Forbes' Best 200 Small Companies for the fourth
consecutive year and was named to Fortune's 100 Fastest Growing Companies list
for the third consecutive year. For more information visit www.qlogic.com.
Note: All QLogic-issued press releases appear on the company's web
site (www.qlogic.com). Any announcement that does not appear on the
QLogic web site has not been issued by QLogic.
Disclaimer- Forward Looking Statements
With the exception of historical information, the statements set
forth above include forward-looking statements as defined within the
Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such
forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties
that could cause actual results to differ materially from those
projected or implied in the forward-looking statements. QLogic wishes
to advise readers that these potential risks and uncertainties relate
to, but are not limited to, in no particular order: the introduction
of new and changing technologies in our industry and customer
acceptance of those technologies; a change in semiconductor foundry
capacity or conditions; fluctuations in the growth of I/O markets;
fluctuations or cancellations in orders from OEM customers; QLogic's
ability to compete effectively with other companies; cancellation of
OEM products associated with design wins; and fluctuations in our
operating results and our stock price.
More detailed information on these and additional factors which could
affect QLogic's operating and financial results are described in
QLogic's Forms 10-Q, 10-K and other reports, filed or to be filed
with the Securities and Exchange Commission. QLogic urges all
interested parties to read these reports to gain a better
understanding of the many business and other risks that QLogic faces.
Additionally, QLogic undertakes no obligation to publicly release the
results of any revisions to these forward-looking statements, which
may be made to reflect events or circumstances occurring after the
date hereof or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.
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