CORPORATE OVERVIEW

  

Our Vision -- Empowering the Grid Generation
Our Mission -- A complete product portfolio of SAN and HPC offerings.  The complete spectrum of networking options, all available from one company.
 
 
                                                              
                                                                                                                      
CORPORATE OVERVIEW                            top
Founded in 1994, QLogic is a leading supplier of high-performance networking solutions. The company produces the controller chips, host adapters and fabric switches that are the backbone of storage and HPC networks for Global 2000 corporations. QLogic delivers a broad and diverse portfolio of products that includes adapters, switches and management tools for a variety of network topologies including Fibre Channel, iSCSI and InfiniBand. QLogic products power solutions from leading companies like Cisco, Dell, EMC, Hitachi Data Systems, HP, IBM, NEC, Network Appliance and Sun Microsystems, and are delivered to small-to-medium businesses and large enterprises around the world by a global community of OEM and channel partners.
PARTNERSHIPS AND ALLIANCES                          top
QLogic works closely with Independent Hardware Vendors and Software Vendors, as
well as developers and integrators who create, test, and evaluate complementary
storage networking products. Key partners include: Computer Associates, Legato,
McDATA, Microsoft and VERITAS.
PRODUCTS                                                              top
Storage and HPC Networking Product Portfolio:
SANblade® Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters
SANblade iSCSI Host Bus Adapters
SANbox® Fibre Channel Switches
SANbox Intelligent Storage Routers
SANbox Storage Services Platform
QLogic InfiniPath ® Host Channel Adapters
Quicksilver InfiniBand Host Channel Adapters
SilverStorm InfiniBand Switches
OEM Innovation:
QLogic is a leading supplier of innovative OEM solutions like its market share leading blade server switches1. Developer of the world's first embedded SAN infrastructure for bladed servers, QLogic is the leading supplier of Fibre Channel switch modules and HBAs for bladed servers. Single-chip HBAs and switches from QLogic provide fast,
reliable and scalable storage expansion in an ultra-compact form-factor.
HISTORY OF LEADERSHIP                                    top
2007
1st company to pass 40,000 DDR InfiniBand switch ports.
Introduced Industry’s 1st adapter to fabric portfolio for storage and HPC.
Introduced Industry’s 1st Transparent Fibre Channel Blade Server Switch.
2006
Introduced Industry’s 1st Stackable Fibre Channel Director.
1st company to ship over 1 million Fibre Channel HBA ports in one year.
Acquired SilverStorm Technologies and InfiniBand switch products.
Acquired PathScale, Inc. and InfiniBand adapter products.
2005
Acquired Troika Networks and Storage Virtualization products.
Introduced QLogic Global Services®.
Opened EMEA Fulfillment Center in Ireland.
1st company to ship over 500,000 blade server HBA ports.
2004
Market share leader for Fibre Channel HBAs.
Introduced Industry’s 1st stackable Fibre Channel switch.
Introduced Industry’s 10Gb Fibre Channel technology.
2003
Introduced Industry’s 1st Fibre Channel blade server switches and HBAs.
SANbox 2Gb Fibre Channel switches win Network Computing switch Product of the Year award.
2002
SANblade 2Gb Fibre Channel HBAs win Network Computing Overall Storage Product of the Year Award.
2001
Introduced Industry’s 1st  2Gb Fibre Channel Switch.
Acquired Little Mountain Group and iSCSI chip and HBA products.
Introduced SANblade iSCSI products.
2000
Introduced Industry’s 1st  Dual-Port HBA on a Chip.
Introduced Industry’s 1st InfiniBand Switch.
Acquired Ancor Communications and SANbox switch products.
1998
Acquired Silicon Design Resources, Inc.
1997
Introduced Industry’s 1st Hard Disk Controller with embedded transceiver.
1996
Introduced Industry’s 1st embedded Fibre Channel transceiver.
1994
Founded and traded on NASDAQ under the symbol QLGC.
OUR VALUES                                                 top
Simplicity - Through our product suite and customer support systems, we make the process of networking storage easy.
Best Value - We provide our customers with the best products at the best price.
Customer Experience (Responsiveness) - We do what we say we will, viewing every customer interaction as an
opportunity to build a relationship of trust.
Leading Edge Technology -- We provide our customers with proven, leading edge technology. Our products comply with industry standards to ensure interoperability and ease of integration within existing network storage deployments.
Our Partners: QLogic products are the "SAN power" behind more than 200 OEM branded solutions.
Our Resellers: QLogic's products are available to end users through leading Systems Integrators.
COMPANY FACTS                                         top
2007 Revenues                                   $586.7 million
Employees                                          Approx. 1,000
Offices                                 www.qlogic.com/contact
Web Address                                   www.qlogic.com
Forward-looking statements contained in this document may involve risks and uncertainties. The company wishes to advise readers that a number of important risk factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking
statements. Those factors include new and changing technologies; a change in semiconductor foundry conditions; fluctuations or cancellations in orders from customers; and the company's ability to compete effectively with other companies.
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.
©2007 QLogic Corporation. Specifications are subject to change without notice. All rights reserved worldwide. QLogic, the QLogic logo SANbox, InfiniPath and SANblade are trademarks or registered trademarks of QLogic Corporation. All other brands and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.