QLogic Corporation

Type: Public
On the web: http://www.qlogic.com
Employees: 973
Employee growth: 5.4%

QLogic keeps its customers on a steady diet of Fibre Channel. The company designs switches, controllers, host bus adapters (HBAs), and management software designed for storage area networks (SANs). In addition to Fibre Channel products, QLogic offers devices based on SCSI (small computer system interface), iSCSI (Internet SCSI), and InfiniBand technologies. QLogic sells its products directly to server and workstation manufacturers, and through distributors. Customers include Cisco Systems, Dell, EMC, Hewlett-Packard (16% of sales in fiscal 2007), IBM (17%), and Sun Microsystems (12%).

Key numbers for fiscal year ending March, 2007:
Sales: $586.7M
One year growth: 18.7%
Net income: $105.4M
Income growth: (62.8%)

Officers:
Chairman and CEO: H. K. Desai
SVP Worldwide Sales and Service: Denis R. Maynard
VP Corporate Marketing: Frank Berry

Competitors:
Broadcom
Brocade Communications
Emulex