Adaptec Names Jared Peters Vice President of Worldwide Sales

Company Veteran to Lead Global Sales Force for Adaptec's Innovative I/O Products

MILPITAS, California, December 14 - Adaptec, Inc. (Nasdaq: ADPT), the global leader in I/O innovation, today
announced the appointment of Jared Peters to the position of Vice President
of Worldwide Sales. With more than 19 years of international sales experience
in the semiconductor, PC/server, networking, and storage industries, Peters
will lead Adaptec's global sales activities to support the company's Data
Conditioning Platform and other innovative data storage hardware and software
solutions.

"Jared brings nearly two decades of extensive international sales
experience, knowledge and leadership to Adaptec's sales team," said S.
"Sundi" Sundaresh, Adaptec's president and CEO. "His track record of
successful sales development, channel sales and sales execution easily made
Jared the logical choice in selecting a candidate to lead Adaptec's global
sales efforts. Adaptec is committed to developing intelligent data center I/O
solutions that lower costs, maximize system performance, and achieve green IT
objectives, and Jared will continue to play a key role in the company's
ongoing success."

Peters has been with Adaptec for 16 years and most recently held the
position of vice president of international sales, where he was responsible
for developing and driving European and Asian sales strategies for Adaptec's
entire product portfolio. Previously, he served as the director of sales for
Asia.

Prior to Adaptec, Peters worked as a product marketing manager at Conner
Peripherals, a hard disk drive manufacturer, where he was responsible for
managing the company's high-end disk drive marketing programs. He holds a
degree in Mechanical Engineering from Santa Clara University and is a
Graduate Fellow of the Institute for Information Storage Technology.

About Adaptec

Adaptec, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADPT) 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 traditional enterprise environments to fast
growing, on-demand cloud computing 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 and
business 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.

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    Contact:
    Sara Lee
    Walt & Company for Adaptec
    +1-408-369-7200 ext. 2980
    slee@walt.com

Sara Lee of Walt & Company, +1-408-369-7200, ext. 2980, slee at walt.com, for Adaptec