MILPITAS, California, September 9 /PRNewswire/ --

- Company Sees Opportunities for Intelligent Data Center I/O Solutions 
That Lower Costs, Maximize System Performance, and Achieve Green IT 
Objectives

Adaptec, Inc. (Nasdaq: ADPT), the global leader in I/O innovation, today
unveiled a strategic vision for developing new and better methods for
intelligently routing, optimizing and protecting data as it moves through the
I/O path. Called the Adaptec Data Conditioning Platform strategy, this
intelligent I/O management approach will result in solutions that will enable
the growing market of public and private cloud data centers to significantly
lower costs, maximize system performance and achieve meaningful Green IT
objectives without requiring changes to existing storage architectures,
application software or operating systems.

"As massively-scalable, cloud computing data centers become the norm in
providing IT services to businesses around the world, they will face ongoing
customer and competitive pressure to increase performance, improve
operational efficiencies, and to be 'greener,'" said S. "Sundi" Sundaresh,
Adaptec's president and CEO. "We believe that by leveraging Adaptec's core
competencies, chiefly our ability to condition and optimize data in the I/O
path, we can provide valuable solutions that address these needs and expand
our business."

Adaptec's Data Conditioning Platform is designed to simplify the adoption
of new technologies and minimize the risks and performance hit traditionally
associated with integrating new data center technologies by ensuring seamless
compatibility with all leading servers, storage devices and operating
systems, and adhering to commercial off-the-shelf hardware standards. The
Data Conditioning Platform is built upon Adaptec's 28 years of storage I/O
innovation, insight from its global installed customer base, and developed by
world-class ASIC and software development teams with hardened expertise in
developing trusted storage I/O solutions.

To support the new strategy, Adaptec announced its newest product family
under the Data Conditioning Platform banner. The Adaptec MaxIQ(TM) SSD Cache
Performance Solution is an industry "first" for building and managing
intelligent, High-Performance Hybrid Arrays (HPHAs) that combine both
solid-state drives (SSDs) and hard disk drives (HDDs) to achieve I/O
performance up to five times faster than HDD-only arrays and savings of up to
50 percent in capital and operating expenses. The Adaptec MaxIQ SSD Cache
Performance Solution integrates customized 32GB Intel(R) X25-E Extreme SATA
SSDs with Adaptec's SSD Caching Software, to dramatically accelerate
read-intensive applications in demanding data centers without disrupting
existing operations.

Increased Functionality at Reduced Costs

By integrating new and additional capabilities in the I/O data path,
Adaptec will continue to provide cloud computing and other large enterprise
data center environments with new products that can dramatically reduce
capital and operating expenditures, while also improving system performance.
Two examples of data conditioning innovation include Adaptec's
Zero-Maintenance Cache Protection, the first maintenance-free, flash-based
cached data protection solution, and Intelligent Power Management, which
reduces storage power and cooling costs by up to 70 percent.

Intelligent, data optimization functionality delivered through Adaptec's
Data Conditioning Platform aims to reduce the amount of server and storage
hardware required, and lower ongoing operating costs by reducing power
consumption, maintenance costs, and physical space requirements. In addition,
the Data Conditioning Platform enables intuitive, centralized management of
servers and storage systems.

As computing environments continue to grow in size and scope, Adaptec's
Data Conditioning Platform can scale to meet increasing throughput
requirements and improve server and storage utilization at the maximum I/O
performance. The Data Conditioning Platform will also help data center
managers achieve meaningful "Green" objectives by minimizing the number of
servers and storage devices previously required, and reducing direct system
power and cooling power costs.

"Continued growth in cloud computing will inevitably lead to increased
competition among cloud providers which will in turn put pressure on these
providers to find new ways of increasing the efficiency and performance of
their services without having to redesign their entire operation," said Gene
Ruth, Burton Group senior storage analyst. "Innovation that can reduce up
front capital cost and ongoing operating expenses, that can ensure optimal
utilization of existing hardware resources, and can make a measurable dent in
energy usage, will be of real interest to any data center managers running
demanding applications in high-performance environments."

About Adaptec

Adaptec provides innovative data center I/O solutions that protect,
accelerate, optimize, and condition data in today's most demanding data
center environments. Adaptec products are used in IT environments ranging
from on-demand cloud computing to traditional enterprise data centers. The
company's products enable data center managers, channel partners and OEMs to
deploy best-in-class storage solutions to meet their customers' evolving IT
requirements. Around the world, leading corporations, government
organizations, and medium and small businesses trust Adaptec technology. More
information is available at www.adaptec.com, on its blog,
storageadvisors.adaptec.com, and at adaptec.com/facebook and
twitter.com/Adaptec_Inc.

Safe Harbor Statement

This news release includes forward-looking statements within the meaning
of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of
the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Forward-looking
statements such as "will," "believe" and similar expressions are statements
regarding future events or the future performance of Adaptec, and include
statements regarding projected operating results. These forward-looking
statements are based on current expectations, forecasts and assumptions and
involve a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results
to differ materially from those anticipated by these forward-looking
statements. These risks include: general economic conditions; that if we do
not meet our operational objectives, we may have to continue to implement
additional plans in order to reduce our operating costs; achieving necessary
support from the contract manufacturers to which we have outsourced
manufacturing, assembly and packaging of our products; Adaptec's ability to
launch new products; difficulty in forecasting the volume and timing of
customer orders; reduced demand in the server, network storage and desktop
computer markets; our target markets' failure to accept, or delay in
accepting, network storage and other advanced storage solutions, including
our SAS, SATA and iSCSI lines of products; decline in consumer acceptance of
our current products; the timing and volume of orders by OEM customers for
storage products; our ability to control and manage costs associated with the
delivery of new products; and the adverse effects of the intense competition
we face in our business. For a more complete discussion of risks related to
our business, reference is made to the section titled "Risk Factors" included
in our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended July 3, 2009 on
file with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Adaptec assumes no
obligation to update any forward-looking information that is included in this
release.

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Contacts:
    Cyndi Babasa
    Walt & Company for Adaptec
    +1-408-369-7200 x.1062
    cbabasa@walt.com