Steel Excel, Inc. is investigating business acquisitions in the sports, training, education, entertainment and lifestyle industries. Previously it operated as ADPT or Adaptec and it was a provider of innovative data storage hardware and software solutions. The company supplied technologies and applications supported by major storage and system OEMs, system integrators, system builders, and resellers that delivered enabling technology and products to address many of the most critical applications in data storage. It offered ASICs, host-bus adapters, value-oriented and high-performance SATA/SAS and SCSI RAID controllers, and storage software for IP storage area networks. Headquartered in Milpitas, California, the comapny has several offices around the world.