19. Adaptec
Headquarters: Milpitas, Calif.
Revenue in Most Recent Quarter: $31.7 billion (Q2, FY2009)
Channel Chief: Suresh Panikar, director of worldwide marketing
Why It's a Strategic Storage Partner: Adaptec is the largest maker of RAID controllers and host bus adapters (HBAs) for SATA and SAS drives, and as such plays a role with solution providers dealing with storage from the small business to the enterprise.
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