Adaptec Announces Cancelation of 2009 Annual Meeting of Stockholders Originally Scheduled for November 10, 2009

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 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.

Cautionary Statement

This press release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. All statements, other than statements of historical fact, are statements that could be deemed to be forward-looking statements, including but not limited to statements related to: Adaptec's new products may outrun the decline of the company's legacy product revenues; and the company's cash flow projections. Adaptec cautions that a variety of factors, including but not limited to the following, could cause results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in the forward-looking statements: continued or increased economic weakness and declines in customer spending; the potential failure of anticipated long-term benefits from new products to materialize; the potential impact of adverse changes in the global credit markets; the impact of industry technology transitions; fluctuating operating results; and other risks detailed from time to time in filings Adaptec makes with the SEC, including in the section entitled "Risk Factors" in its latest Annual Report on Form 10-K and Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q.

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