QLogic Corporation (NASDAQ:QLGC) simplifies the process of networking storage for OEMs, resellers and system integrators with the only end-to-end storage area network (SAN) infrastructure in the industry. With a vision of a SAN in every business, QLogic produces the controller chips, host bus adapters (HBAs), fabric switches and management software that are the backbone of storage networks for large and small to medium sized enterprises. The company serves customers with solutions based on all storage network technologies including SCSI, Internet SCSI (iSCSI), InfiniBand and Fibre Channel.

As a key resource for SAN planning and implementation, QLogic Corporation is backed by over 15 years of storage experience and offers the widest range of SAN-infrastructure experience in the industry. For these reasons, the world's leading storage vendors including Dell, EMC, Fujitsu, Hitachi, HP, IBM, LSI, and Sun rely on QLogic-infrastructure products for their disk, tape, and storage subsystems and software solutions. Last year more than 7 million QLogic chips shipped inside disk drives, tape devices, servers, workstations, RAID subsystems, and tape libraries delivered to small, medium, and large enterprises around the world

Founded in 1985, QLogic began trading publicly on the NASDAQ exchange in 1994. Since that time, the company has established a consistent record of strong earnings growth, becoming a member of the NASDAQ 100 Index® in 1999 and the S&P 500 Index in December 2000. QLogic was recently ranked number 25 on Forbes' Best 200 Small Companies and number 20 on Fortune's 100 Fastest Growing Companies.

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