COSTA MESA, Calif., Jan. 05, 2004 (PRIMEZONE) -- Emulex Corporation (NYSE:ELX) announced today that its award-winning LightPulse(tm) family of HBAs has been certified for use with Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Additionally, the Linux Open Source driver for the LightPulse family of HBAs is now supported by Red Hat for its Enterprise Linux AS and ES distributions.
Under the agreement, Red Hat will provide seamless support to its customers when using the qualified Emulex Open Source drivers (available at http://www.redhat.com/software/drivers/emulex/) through a joint process with Emulex. Red Hat has also certified and listed multiple Emulex HBA generations on its Hardware Compatibility List, including the LP8000, LP9002, LP952, LP9802, LP982 and newly-released LP10000 and LP1050 families, for use with both 32-bit and 64-bit Intel Architecture (IA) platforms in single system and cluster environments.
"Red Hat and Emulex will continue to work closely together with the goal of integrating future Emulex drivers into the Red Hat Enterprise Linux product line, via up-stream acceptance of the open-source Emulex drivers into the Linux kernel," said Brian Stevens, vice president of Operating System Development for Red Hat.
"Four generations of Emulex HBAs, both enterprise and mid-range class, are now Red Hat certified and supported, which is a testament to the company's ongoing commitment to providing leading solutions that can be deployed across the broadest range of IT infrastructures," said Mike Smith, executive vice president of Worldwide Marketing of Emulex. "Red Hat Enterprise Linux support of Emulex HBAs allows for simplified integration with enterprise class systems and provides end users with more flexibility while implementing heterogeneous SANs."
About Emulex
Emulex Corporation is the world's largest supplier and developer of storage networking host bus adapters and a leading provider of embedded storage connectivity technologies to the industry's top-tier storage and server manufacturers. Emulex was recently ranked number 15 in Deloitte & Touche's 2003 Technology Fast 50 and named one of Forbes Magazine's 25 Fastest Growing Technology Companies in 2002.
The Emulex award-winning product families, including its LightPulse(tm) HBAs and InSpeed(tm) embedded storage switching products, 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 Apple, Dell, EMC, Fujitsu Siemens, Groupe Bull, HP, Hitachi Data Systems, IBM, NEC, Network Appliance, StorageTek, Sun Microsystems, Unisys and Xyratex. 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 http://www.emulex.com.
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