COSTA MESA, Calif., Sept. 20, 2004 (PRIMEZONE) -- Emulex Corporation (NYSE:ELX), the market leader in Fibre Channel host bus adapters (HBAs) and embedded storage switches, today announced that the Emulex Models 355 and 375 SAN Storage Switches are now qualified by Apple for use with Apple's Xserve(tm) RAID storage system. Emulex SAN Storage Switch technology coupled with Xserve RAID, delivers an easy to use, affordable storage solution that is ideal for smaller storage area network (SAN) environments -- without the complexities of fabric services.
The Emulex Models 355 and 375 SAN Storage Switches leverage the Company's award winning and field-proven InSpeed(tm) technology for use in smaller front-end switching applications where low-cost and simplicity are required. The Emulex Models 355 and 375 are designed specifically for companies that are seeking the advantages SANs provide over direct attached storage, such as:
-- Higher performance between servers and storage devices
-- Greater application availability
-- Improved storage asset utilization
-- Lower storage management and support costs
-- Incremental scalability to keep up with difficult-to-estimate
storage growth
"The recent introduction of the Emulex SAN Storage Switch family further reinforces Emulex's commitment to delivering a full suite of Fibre Channel SAN infrastructure solutions designed specifically for the SMB user who requires low-cost and absolute simplicity," said Mike Smith, Emulex's executive vice president of Worldwide Marketing. "We are excited about the qualification of both the Models 355 and 375 for Apple's Xserve RAID storage system. It establishes both products as a new industry benchmark for high performance, low-cost switching."
"The architecture of Xserve(tm) RAID delivers massive storage density and incredible performance at just a fraction of the cost of competing solutions," said Ron Okamoto, Apple's vice president of Worldwide Developer Relations. "With its non-fabric storage switches, Emulex offers an affordable and easy-to-use storage solution for Xserve RAID customers with smaller storage area network environments."
Emulex SAN Storage Switch Models 355 and 375 are the first non-fabric Fibre Channel SAN storage switches specifically designed for entry-level SANs. Emulex SAN Storage Switches are designed to deliver a simple and affordable storage solution for end users migrating from direct attached storage to a networked storage model, but wish to avoid the complexities that come with enterprise fabric-based services. Emulex SAN storage switches are ideal for storage pooling and consolidation, high-performance shared tape library backup and recovery, server clustering, and streaming rich media applications.
The Emulex SAN Storage Switch Model 355 is a 1U, half rack form factor 12-port non-blocking 2 Gb/s Fibre Channel switch. The Emulex SAN Storage Switch Model 375 is a 1U, full-rack form factor 20-port non-blocking switch that, in addition to more ports, adds redundant fans and two hot-swappable, universal power supplies for high availability. Both the 355 and 375 switches offer a number of advanced features and unique capabilities included standard in the switch:
-- Intuitive integrated management web server and a simple 3-step
installation process deliver industry leading configuration and
ease of use
-- Smart Settings are selectable predefined switch configurations
that optimize switch performance and stability for a variety of
application environments
-- Automatic Trunking fully multiplies inter-switch link throughput
and bandwidth with failover protection
-- One-Step Zoning for simple storage pool partitioning
-- Stealth Intelligent Change Manager eliminates state and
configuration change notification disruptions, leading to an
exceptionally stable SAN environment, especially for tape backup
and rich media applications.
For more information on the Emulex Storage Switch Models 355 and 375, please visit www.emulex.com.
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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