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SAN JOSE, Calif., and ALISO VIEJO, Calif., April 17,
2002 -QLogic Corp. (NASDAQ:QLGC), the company with a vision
of a storage area network (SAN) in every business, and Cisco
Systems, Inc., the worldwide leader in networking for the
Internet, today announced the two companies have entered into
an alliance, which will include agreements to integrate QLogic
technology and components into Cisco systems storage networking
products, marketing of solutions, and joint interoperability
testing.
"Cisco's goal in storage networking is to combine the
best aspects of existing and emerging technologies to deliver
the most practical and effective solutions for customers,"
said Soni Jiandani, vice president of Marketing in Cisco's
Storage Technology Group. "By working with companies
such as QLogic, we are able to take advantage of the core
competencies of both companies, which enables us to advance
storage networking much faster for our customers."
"Ethernet switch fabrics are the dominant infrastructure
for data networks. Providing a vehicle for file transfer,
they already play an important storage role in connecting
application servers to file servers and network attached storage,"
said James Opfer, Gartner Dataquest. "Just as Ethernet
is dominant for data networks, Fibre Channel stands alone
as the incumbent technology for block-level transfers in SANs.
With Fibre Channel entrenched in the SAN space and Ethernet
ubiquitous and familiar, Fibre Channel and Ethernet fabric
solutions incorporating PCI-based host bus adapters have a
credible evolution path."
Convergence of Storage and Networking
Leading companies share a vision of globally networked storage
by extending their storage networks beyond isolated islands
in the data center to campus, metropolitan, and wide-area
environments. Cisco Systems' storage networking initiative
helps organizations extend their current storage networking
infrastructures to realize benefits such as lowered total
cost of owning storage and improved business continuance.
The Cisco Storage Networking strategy approaches storage
networking from a transport, media-independent point of view,
incorporating a variety of technologies including iSCSI (Internet
Small Computer Systems Interface), FCIP (Fibre Channel over
IP), metro DWDM (Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing),
and Fibre Channel.
About QLogic (www.qlogic.com)
QLogic Corporation (Nasdaq:QLGC
) simplifies the process
of networking storage for OEMs, resellers and system integrators
with the only end-to-end infrastructure in the industry, consisting
of award-winning controller chips, host bus adapters, network
switches and management software to move data from the storage
device through the fabric to the server. QLogic designs and
produces solutions based on all storage network technologies
including SCSI, iSCSI, InfiniBand and Fibre Channel. A member
of the S&P 500 Index, QLogic was recently ranked number 25
on Forbes' Best 200 Small Companies and number 20 on Fortune's
100 Fastest Growing Companies.
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 that involve
risks and uncertainties. The Company wishes to advise readers
that a number of important factors could cause actual results
to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements.
Those factors include new and changing technologies 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; the Company's ability to compete effectively
with other companies; cancellation of OEM products associated
with design wins; and reductions in the need for space and
increased costs of operations due to facility relocation.
Carrying additional expansion space may increase costs and
adversely impact future earnings.
These and other factors which could cause actual results to
differ materially are also discussed in the company's filings
with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its
recent filings on Form S-3, Form 10-K, and Form 10-Q.
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