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Engenio Alliance Partner Awards Presented To AppIQ, QLogic

Engenio Information Technologies Inc, a provider of highly scalable, modular storage systems for the open enterprise, announced that AppIQ and QLogic have been selected as Engenio's 2004 Most Valuable Alliance Partners. Flavio Santoni, Engenio senior vice president of worldwide sales, marketing and customer support presented representatives of AppIQ and QLogic with an award in recognition of their on-going alliance partnership.

The companies were chosen as Engenio's Most Valuable Alliance Partners based on their product synergy, collaborative strategic initiatives, and industry leading technology that enables Engenio to develop and sell innovative storage systems through its worldwide OEM partners. AppIQ provides storage area management solutions that seamlessly integrate heterogeneous SAN management, storage resource management (SRM), provisioning, and application management. QLogic is the industry's only single source for all the components required to build a successful SAN infrastructure.

"We value our alliance partners and appreciate the opportunity to work with the leading IT companies in the world," said Santoni. "Engenio's alliance partners, including AppIQ and QLogic, undergo rigorous testing to ensure functionality, stability, interoperability and fault tolerance. AppIQ and QLogic are leaders in their respective markets and working with both of them ensures that we are delivering innovative and trusted storage solutions from proven market leaders. We look forward to strengthening our working relationship with AppIQ, QLogic and each of our alliance partners in 2005 and beyond."

Founded in 2001 by a team of storage industry veterans, AppIQ has quickly become a leading provider of storage resource management solutions. AppIQ StorageAuthority Suite provides active management and integration to key applications, including Oracle and Exchange. AppIQ is a strong supporter of standards-based integration (SMI-S) and was the first SRM application certified with Engenio's storage based on this standard.

QLogic has been an Engenio preferred technology partner for a number of years. The company's Host Bus Adapters and switches are key elements of the storage solutions sold by Engenio. In 2004, Engenio collaborated with QLogic on a number of key programs including the Microsoft VDS initiative.