COSTA MESA, Calif., May 17, 2004 (PRIMEZONE) -- Emulex Corporation (NYSE:ELX), the market leader in Fibre Channel host bus adapters (HBAs) and embedded storage switches, and a leading supplier of intelligent building blocks for next generation storage networking systems, today announced that the AeA (American Electronics Association) bestowed its Innovative Technology Product Award on Emulex's InSpeed SOC 320 at last week's High Tech Council awards ceremony.
The AeA is the nation's largest high-tech trade association. Hosted annually by the AeA Council, the High Tech Awards honor outstanding local technology companies and acknowledge individual contributions to the high-tech business community. Initially introduced in May of 2002, InSpeed technology was the very first technology to bring high performance switching inside storage arrays, enabling new levels of Reliability, Availability and Serviceability (RAS) and performance for storage systems.
"Emulex's InSpeed technology has created a new paradigm in high performance storage, and the AeA Innovative Technology Product of the Year Award validates our engineering ingenuity and commitment to delivering world-class storage networking products," said Jim McCluney, Emulex President and Chief Operating Officer. "I'd also like to congratulate the Emulex employees who were instrumental in making the InSpeed technology a success."
"Emulex's InSpeed technology embodies the true spirit of innovation that our organization seeks to acknowledge through its awards program," said Phil Beaudoin, executive director, AeA OC Council. "With its headquarters based in one of the world's great epicenters for IT technology development, this award should be particularly gratifying for Emulex Corporation."
About InSpeed Technology
Emulex's InSpeed embedded storage switches replace the legacy shared loop networks that, for many years, were used to transport stored data in and out of the drives within disk arrays and tape libraries. As drives were added to increase storage capacity, shared loop transport systems saturated -- as data had to pass through each and every drive port in the chain, reducing storage system performance and creating latency issues. In addition, if a problem occurred with a single drive often an entire drive shelf or drive array had to be taken off-line for troubleshooting and repair. InSpeed was the first technology to address these problems. For more information about InSpeed, please visit www.emulex.com.
About AeA
Advancing the business of technology, AeA is the nation's largest high-tech trade association. AeA Orange County Council is dedicated to advancing the business of technology through political advocacy, providing access to capital, new revenue sources, offering select business services and providing networking opportunities at the local, state and national levels. Worldwide, AeA represents more than 3,000 companies with 1.8 million employees. AeA's 3000+ members span the high-technology spectrum, from software, semiconductors, medical devices and computers to Internet technology, advanced electronics and telecommunications systems and services. With 17 regional U.S. councils and offices in Brussels and Beijing, AeA offers a unique global policy grassroots capability and a wide portfolio of valuable business services and products for the high-tech industry. AeA has been the accepted voice of the U.S. technology community since 1943. For more information, please visit www.aeanet.org.
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 InSpeed(tm) 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, and Microsoft 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.
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