QLogic

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QLogic Corporation

Type	Public (NYSE: QLGC)
Founded	1992
Headquarters	Aliso Viejo, California, USA
Key people	H. K. Desai, Chairman & CEO
Industry	System & Storage Infrastructure
Revenue	▲$598 million USD (2007)[1]
Operating income	▲$134 million USD (2007)[1]
Net income	▲$96 million USD (2007)[1]
Employees	933 (2007)[2]
Website	http://www.qlogic.com

SAN-switch Qlogic with optical FC connectors installed.

QLogic Corporation NASDAQ: QLGC is a Aliso Viejo, California[1]-based manufacturer of storage and system networking infrastructure solutions. Products include host bus adapters (HBAs), Converged Network Adapters, host channel adapters (HCAs) and SAN storage switches, storage routers.

History

QLogic was created in 1994 after being spun off by Emulex; the two are now competitors for the Fibre Channel HBA market. QLogic has acquired many companies over the years including Ancor, Little Mountain Group, PathScale, SilverStorm and NetXen. QLogic's original business was disk controllers. This business was sold to Marvell in 2005. QLogic has been led by CEO H.K. Desai since 1996.^[3]

Fibre Channel SAN products

• Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters
• Fibre Channel Switches:
  • SANbox2-64
  • Stackable switches
    • SANbox 5200/5202 - 2Gb and 10Gb Fibre Channel
    • SANbox 5600/5202 - 4Gb and 10Gb Fibre Channel
    • SANbox 5800/5802 - 8Gb and 20Gb Fibre Channel
  • Sanbox 3050
  • SANbox Express 1400
  • Blade server switches
• SAN connectivity kits
• Storage Services Platforms/SAN Virtualisation:
  • SANbox 8200
  • SANbox 8202
• Core Switches:
  • SANbox 9000

Converged Network Adapters

• FCoE CNAs

iSCSI SAN products

• iSCSI HBAs

Multiprotocol products

• SANbox 6140/6142 - iSCSI/FC router

InfiniBand products

• InfiniPath InfiniBand HCAs
• InfiniBand HCAs, switches, and gateways

Embedded products

• iSCSI and TOE
• Fibre Channel
• Parallel SCSI

Software products

• SANsurfer Management Suite:
  • SANsurfer FC HBA Manager
  • SANsurfer iSCSI HBA Manager
  • SANsurfer Switch Manager
  • SANsurfer Command Line Interface (CLI), for Windows, Linux and Solaris
• PathScale Compiler Suite (C, C++, and Fortran95)
• InfiniPath MPI

References

1. ^ ^{a b c} http://finance.yahoo.com/q/is?s=QLGC&annual
2. ^ http://finance.yahoo.com/q/pr?s=QLGC
3. ^ http://people.forbes.com/profile/h-k-desai/48568

External links

• QLogic corporate web site