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"Alex's experience and leadership as IBM vice president and business line executive for System x and BladeCenter will be a great asset to the organization going forward, and he will bring new energy and new thinking to move Blade.org forward and into the next decade," said Doug Balog, Blade.org founder and chairman emeritus, serving for the past four years. Balog's role at IBM recently changed, and he now serves as vice president and business line executive for Disk Systems in IBM Storage.

Under Balog's leadership, Blade.org grew from an idea in 2005 to an industry-impacting organization today, bringing together a broad ecosystem of clients, hardware and software vendors, venture capitalists and other industry participants. Membership has more than doubled since 2006; and not only does Blade.org have a strong base of member firms, client membership is the largest it's been. In addition, the blade industry has enjoyed similar growth; during Balog's tenure, blade servers grew as a percent of the market to well over 20 percent.

The Blade.org Board of Directors also approved Emulex and QLogic to fill two vacant Governing Board seats. Both companies have been engaged in Blade.org since February 2006.

Taufik Ma, Emulex's vice president of Product Management, will be the primary representative from Emulex to the Blade.org Governing Board. Members of Taufiks' team have been very active in Blade.org, taking on roles such as chairing the Blade.org Solutions Committee; contributing technical expertise to Blade.org white papers; hosting Blade.org webinars; and emceeing the 2009 Blade.org Technology Symposium.

"Emulex recognizes the value provided to members of Blade.org in developing solutions for the blade market," said Taufik Ma, Emulex. "We continue to collaborate with the Blade.org members to produce cutting edge blade server-based solutions that are fostered by the Blade.org ecosystem, which is focused on delivering valuable solutions to blade computing customers."

QLogic's path to the Blade.org Board of Directors took a slightly different path. Prior to the acquisition of NetXen by QLogic, Vikram Karvat served as NetXen's representative on the Blade.org Board of Directors. After the successful acquisition and integration of NetXen earlier this year, QLogic is continuing the role NetXen began in 2007 as a steward of the blade server market.

"Since joining Blade.org more than three years ago, QLogic has collaborated closely with fellow members to drive innovation in the context of the blade server paradigm," said Karvat, senior director, Host Solutions Group, QLogic. "With more than 70 percent Fibre Channel mezzanine adapter market share, QLogic has made blade server platforms like IBM's BladeCenter a strategic focus for the company. It's a privilege for me to represent QLogic on the Blade.org board, where I hope to foster continued cooperation with other members in the development of interoperable Fibre Channel, Ethernet and Fibre Channel over Ethernet solutions in bladed environments."

The Blade.org Board of Directors now includes the American Power Conversion Corp., BLADE Network Technologies, Brocade, Emulex, IBM, Intel and QLogic.

About Blade.org

Blade.org is a collaborative vendor and end-use community focused on accelerating the development and adoption of blade server solutions. The organization provides leadership to the blade market and fosters a thriving industry ecosystem focused on delivering valuable solutions to blade computing customers. More information is available at www.blade.org.

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- Net revenue for the second quarter of fiscal 2010 was $131.5 million compared to $171.2 million in the same quarter last year. Revenue from Host Products was $94.0 million during the second quarter of fiscal 2010 compared to $119.7 million in the same quarter last year. Revenue from Network Products was $24.5 million during the second quarter of fiscal 2010 compared to $29.8 million in the same quarter last year. Revenue from Silicon Products was $9.6 million during the second quarter of fiscal 2010 compared to $15.7 million in the same quarter last year.

- Net income on a GAAP basis for the second quarter of fiscal 2010 was $16.2 million, or $0.14 per diluted share, compared to $27.2 million, or $0.20 per diluted share, for the second quarter of fiscal 2009. Net income on a non-GAAP basis for the second quarter of fiscal 2010 was $25.1 million, or $0.21 per diluted share, compared to $45.2 million, or $0.34 per diluted share, for the second quarter of fiscal 2009.

"We are pleased with our strong financial performance during the second quarter, which was driven by a 7 percent sequential increase in revenue over our prior fiscal quarter. Our revenue performance, combined with effective operating expense management, yielded results that exceeded our guidance," said H.K. Desai, chief executive officer, QLogic. "We are cautiously optimistic given the signs of stability and early indicators of recovery we are experiencing in our business. We are encouraged by the improvements we experienced in order trends and shipments during the second quarter and believe we are well positioned to experience continued improvement in financial results."

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