QLogic Strengthens Leadership Position In Fibre Channel Adapter Market With Quarter-Over-Quarter and Year-Over-Year Gains

ALISO VIEJO, Calif., May 14, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- QLogic QLGC, the industry leader in Fibre Channel adapters, today announced that the company gained revenue share in the Fibre Channel adapter market in the first quarter of calendar year 2014, as confirmed by recent market share reports from the Dell'Oro Group¹ and Crehan Research.² With a sequential quarter-over-quarter gain of four percentage points, QLogic led its nearest competitor by 19 percentage points, and gained more than five percentage points over calendar Q1 2013. QLogic currently holds a total revenue share of 59 percent according to Dell'Oro Group and 57.8 percent share according to Crehan Research.

"QLogic remains the brand of choice in Fibre Channel adapters," said Vikram Karvat, vice president of marketing, QLogic. "The latest reports validate that we continue to strengthen our presence in the Fibre Channel market, and as the 16Gb Gen 5 Fibre Channel transition continues, we see increased demand for our award-winning FlexSuite 2600 Series adapters. This past quarter we also added Brocade's Fibre Channel adapter assets to our portfolio, and took a leadership role in working with the Fibre Channel Industry Association to shape the forthcoming Gen 6 standard. These moves position QLogic as the go-to Fibre Channel adapter partner for OEMs, channel partners and end-users."

Award-winning QLogic® FlexSuite^TM 2600 Series Gen 5 solutions, available from leading server and storage OEMs such as Dell, EMC, Fujitsu, HP, Huawei, IBM, Lenovo, and Oracle, are designed to deliver the performance and reliability that have made QLogic the leader in Fibre Channel adapters for 10 consecutive years. QLogic market share leadership is driven by IT professionals in Global 2000 corporate data centers where virtualization-dominated IT landscapes and enterprise I/O performance is crucial. Fibre Channel adapters from QLogic offer a suite of technology advancements that enable storage administrators in large enterprises to ensure comprehensive business continuity, maintain application performance and cost-effectively scale their networks.

Why QLogic?

The most advanced networks demand sophisticated capabilities, and for 20 years QLogic has consistently delivered performance, innovation, flexibility, reliability and control for these environments. Breakthrough application performance gives customers faster time-to-data. Innovation delivers new capabilities, greater efficiency and maximum performance. Unprecedented flexibility connects mission-critical applications to any storage network. Reliability is backed by the highest mean-time-between-failure and the industry's only five-year warranties, and robust infrastructure management capabilities put network controls in the hands of customers.

¹Dell'Oro Group Q1 2014 SAN Report

²Crehan Research Q1 2014 Quarterly Market Share Report

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QLogic QLGC is a global leader and technology innovator in high performance server and storage networking connectivity products. Leading OEMs and channel partners worldwide rely on QLogic for their server and storage networking solutions. For more information, visit www.qlogic.com.

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