COSTA MESA, Calif., Oct. 23, 2003 -- Emulex Corporation (NYSE:ELX), the world's leading supplier of storage networking host bus adapters (HBAs), announced today its next generation HBA management suite, HBAnyware(tm) 2.0, with enhanced functionality to further simplify the management of storage area networking solutions. Emulex's HBAnyware solution, launched in October 2002, drastically simplifies storage networking management and reduces planned downtime by allowing host bus adapters to be independently and uniformly configured and managed from a single point, which contributes to lowering the total cost of ownership. HBAnyware 2.0 incorporates driver-based technology to enable complete management of Emulex HBAs, including the ability to remotely upgrade firmware. New and enhanced features include:
-- Remote driver configuration
-- Remote persistent binding management
-- Faster and more robust real-time discovery
-- In-band management security provisions based on authenticated CT
-- Expanded O/S platform support -- Windows 32- and 64-bit and
Solaris
Emulex's HBAnyware 2.0 is designed to augment third party SAN management solutions by providing functionality for remote HBA driver reconfiguration and remote persistent binding management with new security provisions to ensure the end-to-end, in-band active management path is fully secure by providing authentication and access control lists. Emulex has partnered with more than 10 SAN management and infrastructure partners to integrate support for Emulex's HBAnyware, including Brocade, CA, CreekPath, InterSAN, McDATA and VERITAS.
"HBAnyware 2.0 provides critical enhancements to the SAN management infrastructure that are necessary for large-scale, complex storage networks and Emulex is working closely with its partners to continue delivering leading-edge technology solutions that simplify SAN management while lowering total cost of ownership," said Mike Smith, executive vice president of Worldwide Marketing, Emulex Corporation. "End users want a single point-of-control for multi-vendor enterprise storage solutions, and Emulex is committed to delivering leading-edge technology to its partners to help meet customers needs."
HBAnyware -- 'Remote Management for HBAs, Anywhere in the SAN'
HBAnyware provides a level of access and control of HBAs not previously available to the SAN industry. Today, SAN management software utilizes the industry standard common HBA API to extract HBA details such as model numbers, revisions, and topology information. HBA manufacturers provide additional management capabilities through utilities that enable other necessary product-specific configuration and management functions, which must be administered individually to each HBA in the SAN.
Third party applications are needed to provide visibility to the network and for such functions as network monitoring, asset management and topology mapping. HBAnyware provides all the information currently available through the common HBA API, and adds the ability to actively and uniformly manage HBAs in the SAN both locally and remotely, which provides new time- and cost-saving functionality, such as the remote firmware download. Emulex is providing access to the API extensions to its OEM customers and partners, enabling the ability to incorporate HBAnyware functionality within their own products. The capabilities of HBAnyware are valuable in any SAN, but critical in large-scale data centers, blade server environments, heterogeneous SANs and other complex storage networking scenarios.
For more information on HBAnyware, visit www.emulex.com and download the HBAnyware backgrounder. Emulex is also showcasing its HBAnyware 2.0 solution at next week's Storage Networking World Fall conference in Orlando, FL., October 28-29, 2003 in booth No. P7.
Supporting Industry Quotes
Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.
"Working together with partners such as Emulex, we are committed to increasing intelligence in the SAN fabric, enabling our end user customers to further simplify SAN and storage management," said Jay Kidd, vice president of Product Marketing, Brocade Communications Systems.
Computer Associates
"CA's BrightStor SAN Designer takes full advantage of HBAnyware to enable storage administrators to discover more information about each Emulex HBA device and leverage that information during the design, validation and documentation of a SAN," said Edward Cooper, director of Product Marketing for CA's BrightStor solutions. "As one of the first vendors to support HBAnyware, we look forward to working even closer with Emulex to ensure that our mutual customers can meet their evolving storage needs without straining their budgets or getting overwhelmed by operational complexity."
McDATA
"McDATA is committed to working closely with Emulex to provide simple and straightforward solutions for our customers and to reduce the complexities of managing SANs," said Gary Gysin, vice president and general manager of Software, McDATA. "Incorporating Emulex's advanced HBA management functionality into SANavigator further underscores our commitment to providing unparalleled management solutions."
VERITAS
"VERITAS and Emulex have had a long history of working together. With this partnership, VERITAS has integrated Emulex-supplied APIs into VERITAS SAN Management products like SANPOINT Control," said Troy Toman, senior director of Product Management, VERITAS. "VERITAS will be looking to integrate HBAnyware, via its APIs, into future releases of VERITAS SAN Management Products."
About Emulex
Emulex Corporation is the world's largest supplier and developer of storage networking host bus adapters. It was recently named one of Forbes Magazine's 25 Fastest Growing Technology Companies in 2002, and ranked number 15 in Deloitte & Touche's 2003 Technology Fast 50.
The Emulex product families are based on internally developed ASIC, firmware and software technologies spanning both Fibre Channel and IP networking protocols, and offer customers high performance, scalability, flexibility and reduced total cost of ownership. The company's products have been selected by the world's leading server and storage providers, including Dell, EMC, Fujitsu Siemens, Groupe Bull, HP, Hitachi Data Systems, IBM, NEC, Network Appliance, StorageTek and Unisys. In addition, Emulex includes industry leaders Brocade, Computer Associates, Intel, McDATA, Microsoft and VERITAS among its strategic partners. Additionally, Emulex and Intel, via a joint development agreement, are pioneering the industry's first storage processors for Serial ATA, Serial Attached SCSI and Fibre Channel interfaces within a single architecture.
Emulex markets to OEMs and end users through its own worldwide selling organization, as well as its two-tier distribution partners, including ACAL, Avnet, Bell Microproducts, Info-X, Netmarks, Tech Data, TidalWire and Tokyo Electron. Corporate headquarters are located in Costa Mesa, California. News releases and other information about Emulex Corporation are available at www.emulex.com.
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