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posted on 22 August 2008 07:37

FRIMLEY, UK, August 19, 2008 – QLogic Corp. (NASDAQ:QLGC), 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 Q2 2008 SAN Report.

Dell'Oro reports that QLogic gained in overall revenue market share versus its primary competitor for the fifth consecutive quarter achieving 55 percent market share in overall ports and 53 percent of revenue share with a gain of 3.1 percentage points over the previous quarter. This increased the company’s revenue lead over its nearest competitor to 15 percentage points and port share lead to 17 percentage points for the quarter. In addition, Dell’Oro Group has begun to record market data for 8Gb Fibre Channel; QLogic is the only company to show shipments for the second calendar quarter 2008.

“Among other factors such as performance and innovation, a key differentiator for QLogic is reliability,” said Amit Vashi, vice president of marketing, QLogic Host Solutions Group. “OEM and channel customers choose our Fibre Channel adapters because they know they are highly reliable, as evidenced by our industry-leading five-year warranty.”

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.

^{[Formatted by Wendy Matthews.]}