ALISO VIEJO, Calif., Feb. 10, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- QLogic Corp. (Nasdaq:QLGC), a leading supplier of high performance network infrastructure solutions, today announced that it has further strengthened its number one position in revenue and port market share in storage area network (SAN) host bus adapters (HBAs) in 2008 according to new data from the Dell'Oro Group Q4 2008 SAN Report.
With 53.3 percent of the total HBA market in revenue, QLogic widened its leadership position by 8.4 percentage points over the previous year, resulting in an overall lead of 15.3 points. QLogic also improved its market share lead by 6.3 percentage points in HBA ports to 55.4 percent in 2008, resulting in an 18.1 percentage point advantage over its nearest competitor. In the expanding blade server market, the company increased its commanding lead in the category of mezzanine adapters in 2008, with more than 72 percent share of all mezzanine revenue, an increase of more than 22 percentage points over the previous year.
"QLogic OEM and channel customers continue to depend on QLogic to deliver the highest performance and most reliable adapters in the industry," said Amit Vashi, vice president of marketing, QLogic Host Solutions Group. "With a significant lead in the mezzanine adapter market, QLogic is well-positioned to grow as blade servers become increasingly prevalent in data centers and the Fibre Channel attach-rate for these servers continues to go up."
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 (Nasdaq:QLGC) is a global leader and technology innovator in high performance networking, including adapters, switches and ASICs. Leading OEMs and channel partners worldwide rely on QLogic products for their data, storage and server networking solutions. QLogic is a NASDAQ Global Select company and is included in the S&P 500. For more information, visit www.qlogic.com.
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