COSTA MESA, Calif., March 17, 2004 (PRIMEZONE) -- Emulex Corporation (NYSE:ELX), the market leader in Fibre Channel host bus adapters (HBAs) and a leading supplier of intelligent building blocks for next generation storage networking systems, today announced that Quantum Corporation's SDLT 600 tape drive, M- and P-series tape libraries and DX-Series disk-based backup systems, have been certified as storage area network (SAN) interoperable with Emulex's latest LightPulse(tm) HBAs. Certification assures customers of interoperability between Quantum's high performing SDLT 600 tape drives, new PX720, P7000, P4000, M2500, M1800, M1500 tape libraries and DX100 and DX30 disk-based backup systems and Emulex's enterprise-class LP10000 and midrange LP1050 HBAs.
"As a global leader in storage that delivers highly reliable backup, archive and recovery solutions for the enterprise environment, Quantum is pleased to certify the Emulex LP10000 and LP1050 HBAs," said Shane Jackson, director, strategic alliances for Quantum Corporation. "Certification of Emulex and Quantum Super DLTtape drives, automation and enhanced backup systems enables customers to reliably connect our Fibre Channel products into SAN environments."
The Emulex LP10000 host bus adapter offers enterprise-class performance ideal for large or mixed OS SAN environments, while the LP1050 is a value-priced, dependable HBA optimized for today's most popular OS SAN environments. The robust features of LightPulse HBAs provide a high degree of flexibility and complement Quantum's tape and disk storage solutions to suit highly scalable SAN environments for all ranges of storage needs.
The recently introduced SDLT 600 offers industry-leading speed, capacity, and unprecedented manageability through DLTSage, its unique suite of interactive diagnostic tools that allows IT managers to better predict and prevent backup failures. In addition to outperforming all tape drives in its class, the SDLT 600 offers a 2 GB optical Fibre Channel interface that, with high-performance HBAs like the LP10000 and LP1050, makes it ideal for SANs. Quantum's DX100 and DX30 enable fast and more reliable backup and restore operations while maintaining customers' existing backup architectures. This, in addition to Quantum's tape automation systems, which are designed for reliability, flexibility, performance, support, and price, can now be seamlessly integrated into SAN environments with the LP10000 and LP1050 HBAs.
"Quantum's SDLT 600 tape drives, tape automation and disk-based backup systems are designed to offer customers high-performance options for SANs," said Mike Smith, executive vice president of worldwide marketing for Emulex. "Emulex LightPulse HBA customers will welcome the seamless interoperability and maximum uptime resulting from the integration of both Emulex and Quantum products into their SAN environments."
About Emulex
Emulex Corporation is the world leader in Fibre Channel HBAs and delivers a broad range of intelligent building blocks for next generation storage networking systems. Emulex was named one of Forbes Magazine's 25 Fastest Growing Technology Companies, and ranked number 15 in Deloitte & Touche's 2003 Technology Fast 50.
The world's leading server and storage providers rely on Emulex HBAs, embedded storage switching and I/O controller products to build reliable, scalable and high performance storage solutions. The Emulex award-winning product families, including its LightPulse(tm) HBAs and InSpeedTM embedded storage switching products, are based on internally developed ASIC, firmware and software technologies, 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 Ltd., Fujitsu Siemens, Groupe Bull, HP, Hitachi Data Systems, IBM, NEC, Network Appliance, Quantum Corp., StorageTek, Sun Microsystems, Unisys and Xyratex. In addition, Emulex includes industry leaders Brocade, Computer Associates, Intel, McDATA, Microsoft and VERITAS among its strategic partners. Corporate headquarters are located in Costa Mesa, California. News releases and other information about Emulex Corporation are available at http://www.emulex.com.
"Safe Harbor" Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995: With the exception of historical information, the statements set forth above include forward-looking statements that involve risk and uncertainties. The company wishes to caution readers that a number of important factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements. Those factors include the rapidly changing nature of technology, evolving industry standards and frequent introductions of new products and enhancements by competitors; fluctuation in the growth of Fibre Channel and IP markets; changes in economic conditions or changes in end-user demand for technology solutions; fluctuations or delays in customer orders; the highly competitive nature of the markets for Emulex's products; Emulex's ability to gain market acceptance for its products; the company's ability to attract and retain skilled personnel; the company's reliance on third-party suppliers. These and other factors which could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements are also discussed in the company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its recent filings on Forms 8-K, 10-K and 10-Q.
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