ALISO VIEJO, Calif., Oct. 25, 2004 (PRIMEZONE) -- QLogic Corp. (Nasdaq:QLGC), the company that powers storage area networks (SANs), today announced that H.K. Desai, chairman, CEO and president, and Tony Massetti, vice president and CFO, will deliver a company presentation at Prudential Equity Group's Tech Conference, Wednesday, Oct. 27 at 11:40 a.m. at the Grand Hyatt New York in New York City.
The presentation can be accessed through live and archived webcasts via the QLogic website at http://www.qlogic.com/company/investor_relations.asp.
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Since 1993, over 50 million QLogic products have shipped inside servers, workstations, RAID subsystems, tape libraries, disk and tape drives. These products were delivered to small, medium and large enterprises around the world. Powering solutions from leading companies like Cisco, Dell, EMC, Fujitsu, Hitachi, HP, IBM, NEC, Network Appliance, Quantum, StorageTek and Sun Microsystems, 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 named to the following during fiscal year 2004: (i) Fortune's 100 Fastest Growing Companies list for the fourth consecutive year; (ii) Forbes' Best 200 Small Companies for the fifth consecutive year; and (iii) Business Week's list of 100 Hot Growth Companies. For more information visit www.qlogic.com.
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