QLogic (NASDAQ: QLGC) specializes in high performance networking infrastructure. A NASDAQ Global Select company and member of the S&P 500, the company’s world-class chips, adapters and switches enable the delivery of high performance computing, data networking and storage networking solutions by leading OEMs to customers worldwide.

Headquarters: Aliso Viejo, California
Employees: Over 900
Fiscal 2008 Revenue: $597.9 million


Founded in 1994, QLogic Corporation (Nasdaq:QLGC) 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, 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.

With headquarters in Aliso Viejo (Orange County) CA, QLogic has been named to Forbes’ Best 200 Small companies for eight consecutive years. 2007 revenues (FY 2007, ending April ’07) were just over $586 mm. The company employs over 1000 globally.

FC HBA (Host Bus Adapter),
SAN Switch and Director,
FCoE CNA,
Infiniband HCA, Infiniband Switch,
HPC (High Performance Computing)
Data Center Fabric Total End-to-End Solution Provider