COSTA MESA, Calif., June 15, 2004 (PRIMEZONE) -- Emulex Corporation (NYSE:ELX), the world leader in Fibre Channel host bus adapters and a provider of intelligent building blocks for the storage networking industry, today announced that leading independent market research firm Gartner Dataquest has ranked Emulex the number one Fibre Channel host bus adapter supplier worldwide in 2003. In addition, Emulex maintained the number one position in Fibre Channel HBA port shipments with 48 percent market share, an increase of five percentage points from the previous year.
In a new report entitled, Market Share: FC SAN Components, Worldwide, 2003, by Gartner Analyst James Opfer, the Company confirms that Emulex has once again emerged as the clear leader with 49 percent of the total HBA market in terms of revenue, surpassing its nearest competitor by more than 10 percentage points.
"Emulex strengthened its leadership position in the Fibre Channel HBA market by successfully delivering best-in-class products to our customers -- the world's leading server and storage OEMs," said Paul Folino, Emulex Chairman and CEO. "The recent introduction of our LP101 HBA, designed specifically for SMB SANs, opens up an entirely new market opportunity for Emulex revenue growth. As we continue to expand and diversify our product portfolio, Emulex is committed to delivering a complete line of HBAs for all sectors of the SAN market."
For calendar year 2003, Gartner Dataquest estimated that the worldwide revenue for the Fibre Channel SAN infrastructure market increased to $1.67 billion. Emulex's success during 2003 is attributed to a variety of factors, including OEM design wins and partner qualifications of its enterprise and midrange HBAs with the industry's leading server and storage suppliers, including EMC, HP, IBM, Quantum and StorageTek. In January 2004, the company launched its LP101 HBA, which is qualified by EMC for connectivity to the AX100 array, and specifically targeted for use in SANs for the rapidly growing small- to medium-sized business (SMB) market.
About Emulex
Emulex Corporation, which was named one of Forbes Magazine's 25 Fastest Growing Technology Companies in 2002, is the world's largest supplier and developer of storage networking host bus adapters. 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 and Unisys. In addition, Emulex includes industry leaders Brocade, Computer Associates, Intel, McDATA, Microsoft and VERITAS among its strategic partners. Via a joint development agreement, Emulex and Intel 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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