COSTA MESA, Calif., June 8, 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 its LightPulse(TM) LP1050 and dual channel LP1050DC midrange HBAs are qualified by HP for use in industry-standard ProLiant servers within Windows operating environments. Additionally, the Emulex enterprise-class LP10000 and dual channel LP1000DC Fibre Channel HBAs are qualified by HP for use with the HP AlphaServer series of servers running the Tru64 UNIX and OpenVMS operating environments. Emulex HBAs provide the flexibility and manageability via its unique firmware-based architecture that customers demand for data intensive storage networking environments.
"The flexibility of Emulex's unique firmware-based HBA architecture enables HP customers to benefit from seamless upgrades without disruption to their system operations, while simplifying management requirements and protecting their initial investments with a common operating system driver that functions across all product generations," said Mike Smith, executive vice president of Worldwide Marketing at Emulex. "By successfully completing HP's rigorous testing and qualification requirements, we continue to strengthen our position as the industry's leading supplier of Fibre Channel HBAs."
"The Emulex LP10000 family of enterprise and midrange HBAs provide the robust connectivity and unique feature set that HP customers rely on for their high performance SAN environments," said Kyle Fitze, director of product marketing, Online Storage Division, Technology solutions Group at HP. "HP and Emulex share a commitment to delivering industry-leading product options for customers who demand the highest quality storage solutions."
Emulex industry-leading HBAs are broadly certified with a wide range of HP's world-class server and storage products, including the HP StorageWorks XP, EVA, VA and MSA storage arrays, and HP 9000, Integrity, AlphaServer and ProLiant server families.
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 the Deloitte & Touche 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 world's leading server and storage providers have selected Emulex products. 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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